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Directed by LENKA UDOVIČKI
Dramaturgy TENA ŠTIVIČIĆ
Music NIGEL OSBORNE
Set Design ZLATKO KAUZLARIĆ - ATAČ
Costume Design BJANKA ADžIĆ-URSULOV
Sound Design DAVOR ROCCO
Light Design DENI ŠESNIĆ
Video by MARIN LUKANOVIĆ
Premiere:
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MAJA POSAVEC |
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KSENIJA MARINKOVIĆ |
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LINDA BEGONjA |
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KATARINA BISTROVIĆ-DARVAŠ |
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SLAVICA KNEŽEVIĆ |
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BARBARA PRPIĆ-BIFFEL |
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DRAŽEN ČUČEK |
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DAMIR ŠABAN |
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MLADEN VASARY |
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DAMIR POLjIČAK |
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IVAN ĐURIČIĆ |
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NEBOJŠA BOROJEVIĆ |
Musicians..... |
VEDRAN BOŽIĆ |
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JOHN FRANCIS KERN |
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BRANKO BOGUNOVIĆ - PIF |
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JESSE SALER |
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DARKO KRZNARIĆ |
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CHRIS - GERARD HEYWARD |
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KREŠIMIR RANDIĆ |
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ADAM HAAS HUNTER |
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AIDAN BURKE |
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P E R F O R M A N C E...... |
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Year 1968 - the time of the Vietnam war, the first direct TV broadcast of the student protests, which, in this unique moment in history, united almost the entire planet. Young people are protesting against political and social authorities. With new expressions in music and art, a new sensibility is awakened, a new sensitivity and sensuality. A freer political, religious, sexual and spiritual expression is examined. A new social order is sought after in the moment when foreboding about a society constructed on consumer values and the world domination of corporations have not yet become relentless reality.
Along with authentic testimonies of American cultural revolutionaries, a research in the play was done on the music, art, fashion and philosophy 68, student demonstrations of Western and Eastern Europe, so-called guerilla theatre technique and provocation, and as the eternal symbol of love and protest of youth against authority, in this play about 1968 Romeo and Juliet appear as well. |
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| ULYSSES THEATRE - BRIJUNI |
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Ulysses Theatre is a theatre space where spiritually similar artists intertwine. It welcomes the cooperation of all those broadening aesthetical and spiritual horizons.
Movement in art, progress and voyage mark the active attitude towards reality and history. Voyage is one of the ways of not accepting the inevitable fate, so typical of the Mediterranean culture, from Homer onwards. Each man is destined to wander, outside or inside. Everyone is in search of his own Ithaca. Individuals and characters travel, whereas Ulysses is to all a symbolic figure. And a reminder never to give up hope and work, in search of new expressions in order to avoid withdrawing into the egocentric world that turns its back to reality and others. Ulysses is a cunning mythical and poetic figure (Greek metis, American Indian trickster) that easily travels through different language and cultures, connecting the differences. Actor-director Rade Šerbedžija and writer- playwright Borislav Vujčić founded the Theatre. The activity of the Theatre is closely related to the area around Vodnjan, Fažana, Brijuni and Pula in Istria. By its name it is homage to James Joyce, writer whose biography and work testify to the presence in this area. Joyce lived in Pula as an English language teacher in the Berlitz School of foreign languages from November 1904 to April 1905.
Besides Theatre production, in the years to come it would have a school and workshops for film, dance, writing, acting, directing, set design where internationally recognized theatre and film artists would convey part of their experience and knowledge to participants through a creative atmosphere.
Productions: King Lear, Medea, Marat-Sade, Play Beckett, Hamlet, Tesla Electronic Company, Caligula (co-production) ... |
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Lenka Udovički Studied at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Belgrade, where she gained her Master of Arts Degree in Theatre Directing. She started her professional career in regional and major Belgrade theatres and in 1992 left her native country. Since than she has lived in London and Los Angeles and works as international director for theatre and opera. Her special interest is developing new work and exploration in musical theatre.
FOR ULYSSES THEATRE, CROATIA - AS CO-FOUNDER AND ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 2001-PRESENT
Ulysses Theatre started in 2001 as a Summer Theatre Festival on the Island of Brijuni, Croatia. The founders idea has been to create a space where international artists and artists from different parts of Former Yugoslavia can work, exchange ideas and creative energy. So far, it had seven successful seasons with artists from Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Serbia, Italy, UK, USA, Germany, France, Chechnya collaborating in its big scale, site-specific productions on the remains of the biggest Austro-Hungarian fortress.
- KING LEAR by W. Shakespeare with Rade Serbedzija
- MEDEA by Euripides with Mira Furlan
- MARAT/SADE by P.Weiss
- HAMLET by W. Shakespeare
- CORE SAMPLE - (based on WAITTING FOR GODOT by S. Beckett and accounts of survivors from the Goli Otok prison Island) with Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Amanda Plummer and Caroline Jones
- DRUNKEN NIGHT 1918 by M.Krleza and I. Stivicic - Audiences Award as Best Performance at the BITEF Theatre Festival 2007
FOR MOVING THEATRE COMPANY, LONDON - AS CO-FOUNDER AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR 1994-1999
- FIRERAISERS by M. Frisch - Riverside Studios, with Frances de la Tour
- BRECHT IN EXILE devised by company - Bridge Lane Theatre, with Vanessa Redgrave, Eckehart Schall and Rade Serbedzija
- WATERFALL by V Stevanovic - Riverside Studios, Critics Choice (Time Out), Hot Ticket (The Guardian)
- LEMONADE by E. Ensler- Kings Head, Chelsea Arts Center (rehearsed readings)
WORK AS THEATRE DIRECTOR INCLUDES
- THE TEMPEST by W. Shakespeare - Shakespeare’s Globe, London, UK with Vanessa Redgrave as Prospero, Jasper Britton as Caliban
- HAMLET by W. Shakespeare, California Institute of Arts, USA
- TAKING SIDES by R. Harwood, Atelje 212, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- MOTHER COURAGE by B. Brecht, PPP, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, (best performance of the year by “SCENA” theatre magazine)
- ANTIGONA by D. Jovanovic - Kumanovo Macedonia
- CHAMBER MUSIC by C. Durang - BDP, Belgrade Yugoslavia
OPERA AND MUSIC THEATRE
- DIFFERENCES IN DEMOLITION composed by N. Osborne, libretto G. Simic WORLD PREMIERE, international collaboration between artists and performers from UK and Balkan countries, produced by Opera Circus, UK, toured Bosnia and City of London Festival in 2007, on tour in Scotland, Austria and Turkey in 2008. Lenka developed this opera with Nigel Osborne and Opera Circus through series of workshops and residencies between 2004-2007 in Croatia and UK, and ‘Sevdah Opera’ work in progress toured Dorset in 2005.
- A BETTER PLACE - composed by Marin Buttler, libretto C. Oswin, WORLD PREMIERE, English National Opera, Coliseum, London
- SHORELINE/STORIES OF LOVE AND WAR music by N. Osborne - co-production between Hebrides Ensemble, Opera Circus and Scottish Dance Theatre, toured Scotland
- THE CONSUL by G. Menotti - Leighton House, concert performance for Moving Theatre
- HISTORY’S RHYME - Limelight Club, London, for English National Opera Studio |
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