13th International Theatre Festival Slavija opens

BELGRADE - The 13th International Theatre Festival Slavija 2014 has opened at the Slavija Theater in Belgrade.

The festival, which was declared open on Sunday evening by actor Tanasije Uzunovic, will showcase seven plays in the competition program by March 16.

The jury comprising Serbian theatrologist Rasko Jovanovic, American playwright and director Nic Ularu and Serbian director Cisana Murusidze will present the award for the best play - the statuette of Don Quixote work of sculptor Kolja Milutinovic.

The festivals' first evening showed the play dubbed “97 and a half steps on the road” by the Novgorod Theatre for Children and Youth “Mali” from Russia.

The program will also comprise: “The woman who did not want to come down to earth” by Gabrielle Neuhaus Physical Theatre from Israel, “No exit” by Theatro Independent Theater from Egypt and “Medea” by the Musical Theater Center Aigul Imanbaeva from Kazakhstan.

The Kamensk-Uralskiy Drama Theatre “Drama No. 3” from Russia will take part in the festival with the play entitled “Without dowry”, while the U Mosta Theatre from Perm, Russia, will perform Nicolay Gogol's “The marriage” directed by Sergei Fedotov.

The only competitor from Serbia is “The Karamazov brothers / ghastly eros” directed by Vladimir Lazic.

The last evening of the festival will stage the latest show of the Slavija Theatre “Time flies so fast” directed by Rasko Jovanovic marking 150 years since the birth of great Serbian playwright Branislav Nusic.

Photo Tanjug, T. Valic (illustration)