At today’s press conference presenting the program of the 37th “Theatre City” festival, Milena Lubarda Marojević, the director of “Theatre City”, Svetlana Ivanović, the Chief editor of the program, Jakša Ćalasan, the director of the National Museum of Montenegro, and maestro Bojan Suđić have addressed the journalists present.
During 51, 49 festival days respectively, over 620 participants from the fields of drama, literature, music, and visual arts will perform in the programs of the 37th “Theatre City” festival. The programs will take place on the stage “Between the Churches,” inside the Santa Maria Church, on the Poets’ Square, on the streets of the Old Town, on the plateau in front of the Avala Hotel, and in the amphitheater of the Stanjevići Monastery.
This year’s festival is held under the motto “Strength, Courage, and Stupidity,” and it was stated: “The complexity of the times that have befallen upon us blurred our believing both the stories with happy endings and infallible and painless moral actions. However, it does not mean that there is no faith in humanity. The willingness to confront our own flaws and weaknesses, everyone is familiar with, and to expose them may actually be a safer guide to better understanding the entirety of human nature. Sometimes strong, sometimes brave, sometimes foolish. Sometimes, and most often simultaneously, both brave and strong and foolish.”
Drama program hosts 15 plays directed by: Ana Tomović, Vuk Ršumović, Boris Liješević, Nina Nikolić, Milan Nešković, Mirjana Medojević, Marko Misirač, Igor Vuk Torbica, Milan Karažić, Nikita Milivojević, Vito Taufer, a director and choreographer Staša Zurovac, as well as an actress Lucija Barišić’s author project. The Festival welcomes theatrical plays from Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
There are two theatrical premieres in the course of the 37. Theatre City Festival edition. The first one is characterized as “a guided walk throughout the authentical sights of the old Budva”, titled “Unreal City”, based upon the text and directed by Vuk Ršumović. Another festival coproduction with the NT Sombor is directed by a Slovenian director Vito Taufer, based upon the legendary text “Radovan III“, by Dušan Kovačević.
The 37.festival embraces literary night with Dušan Kovačević, a writer at Poets’ Square; Dušan Kovačević is one of the laureates of City Theatre Award “Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša“ for literary achievements in 1996.
Music program is to host 9 concerts and besides the opening night program, the festival stage is to be mounted by: Nemanja Radulović, the violinist, Maestro Bojan Suđić, Boris Kraljević, the pianist, “Zagreb soloists“, as well as Young Montenegrin musicians.
Maestro Suđić, jubilee award winner for the special contribution to the Festival has expressed great pleasure for mutual cooperation with the Festival being continued this year, adding that there is also a mighty aspect of the Festival music program alongside with the drama one.
This year, Poets Square is assembling the best writers of the region in the course of 15 literary nights. Đorđe Matić, Goran Petrović, Miraš Martinović, Vesna Goldsworthy, Tanja Bakić, Milo Lompar, Aleksandar Šurbatović, Mihajlo Pantić, Jana Radičević, Snježana Banović, Mirjana Novaković, Dušan Kovačević are to present their latest works. There are moderators being an important part of Poets Square, who are themselves respectable writers and critics, such as: Nebojša Grujičić, Mića Vujičić, prof. dr AleksandarJerkov, Barbara Delać, mr Milorad Durutović, mr Božena Jelušić, Danka Ivanović MA, Tamara Krstić, Gojko Božović, prof. dr Jelena Knežević, mr Janko Ljumović, dr Petra Bjelica…
Central part of the Festival Art Program is planned to happen on the 13th of July, when the exhibition Mentors and protégés of Herceg Novi Art School – in cooperation with The National Museum of Montenegro, is to be opened. The National Museum Director, looked back to a long lasting cooperation of “City Theater” and The National Museum of Montenegro.
A special night on the stage Between Churches will be dedicated to Nebojša Glogovac, whose acting career marked “City Theater” courses, as well; in 2009, the Festival awarded him: ”Theatre City” theatrical creativity award.
The Festival appreciates the pianist Bojan Martinovic and a theatrical critic Bojan Munjin for planning both the music and drama programs this year.
“Theatre City” press