Direction and text adaptation: Ivan Vanja Ala\u010d<\/p>\n
Stage design: Andreja Rondovi\u0107<\/p>\n
Costume design: Biljana Grgur<\/p>\n
Music: Dragana Jovanovi\u0107<\/p>\n
Stage speech: Vlasta Ramljak<\/p>\n
Cast: Sa\u0161a Torlakovi\u0107, Nikola Kne\u017eevi\u0107, Adriana Salahovi\u0107, Jugoslav Krajnov, Ivana V. Jovanovi\u0107, Biljana Keskenovi\u0107, Nemanja Baki\u0107, Sr\u0111an Aleksi\u0107, Pero Stojan\u010devi\u0107, Ana Rudakijevi\u0107, Anica Petrovi\u0107<\/p>\n
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\u201cEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion\u201d-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Although completely aware of what he created, unlike the painter Basil in Wilde\u2019s novel, Mate Mati\u0161i\u0107 was not afraid to put in front of us a self-portrait of his soul. Similarly as in Ljudi od voska<\/em> (Men of Wax<\/em>) whilst talking about other people, he was actually exposing himself all the time. Therefore, in this play we are to put before us \u00a0on stage a large mirror and that through the lens of the story of Croatian society. If we take a closer look at what is in front of us, we will gather that our only privilege as opposed to Zagreb is that this particular time the writer didn\u2019t make an example of us. The motifs taken as an inspiration for the play are the \u00a0various instances of people not being able to \u00a0distinguish between fiction and reality, war veterans caught up in the past, abuse of the industry \u00a0to which we belong- journalists without ethics and morals\u2026 It can be said that all these are products of one society\u2019s inability to free itself from the prefix \u201cpost-war\u201d.<\/p>\n Even upon the first encounter with the play, it becomes perfectly clear that My Sad Monsters<\/em><\/strong> (which Miljenko Jergovi\u0107 named \u201cMate Mati\u0161i\u0107\u2019s Anatomy Lesson) was created as the author\u2019s response to the Croatian public\u2019s reaction to his drama Men of Wax.<\/em><\/strong> It can also be inferred that the piece refers in many ways to the original trilogy. Regardless of all that, the already mentioned drama is a functioning whole that stands on its own two feet, providing an equally rich layering of meaning to those viewers who may not be familiar with the previous trilogy or the author\u2019s life.<\/p>\n As the title itself suggests, \u00a0My Sad Monsters <\/em><\/strong>is by no means a straight-line, chronological continuation of Men of Wax. <\/em><\/strong>This piece of writing is, in fact, highly gradational and that in its: boldness of expression, toying with genres, blurring the boundaries between reality and a dream, as well as fiction and facts, illusion and truth. This is all due to the fact that \u00a0in the realm of Mati\u0161i\u0107\u2019s dramatic work all these are synonymous with one another. Following his example, we felt obliged to be even bolder on stage than we had been the last time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77739,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[186],"event_type_2":[],"class_list":["post-78042","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_location-between-the-churches","event_type-teatar","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/78042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78042"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=78042"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=78042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/240_mtm-odabrane-fotografijea003-300x186.jpg\")
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