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CLOSER
Patrik Marber
Directed by Alisa Stojanović
Premiere: February 16th 1999
Running time approx: 1h 55”
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Cast:
Alice: Radmila Tomović
Dan: Nebojša Glogovac
Larry: Branislav Lečić
Anna: Vladica Milosavljević
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ABOUTH THE AUTHOR
PATRICK MARBER was born in London. He has written numerous television dramas. The Premiere of Marber’s play ‘Closer’, which he himself directed, was performed on 29th May 1997 at the ‘Cottesloe’ theatre (one of the stages of the ‘Royal National Theatre’). The play was transferred to the ‘National Littleton Theatre’ in the West End on 16th October.
Awards for ‘Closer’:
- the Evening Standard’s best comedy of 1997
- the ‘Critic's Circle’ best play of 1998
- the ‘Laurence Olivier’ prize for the best new theatre play of 1998
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| ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ALISA STOJANOVIĆ graduated in theatre directing in the class of Professor Dejan Mijač in 1991. She is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Drama Arts. At Belgrade theatres she has directed Bald Singer by E. Eunesko, (Malo pozorište «Duško Radović»), Staza divljači by F.K. Kroetz (Atelje 212), Burn This by L. Wilson (Belgrade Drama Theatre), Behind the Curtain by M. Frayn (Atelje 212), Cabaret, co-director Soja Jovanović (Teatar T), Dungeon by S. Velmar-Janković (Atelje 212), Alice in Wonderland by L. Carroll-V. Djurić («Boško Buha» Theatre), Pod okriljem zvezda by M. Puig (Belgrade Drama Theatre), Here by M. Frayn (Atelje 212), Masterclass by T. Neli (Bitef Teatar), Parovi by G. Marković (Atelje 212), Closer by R Marber (YDT), Art and Three Versions of Life by Jasmina Reza (Atelje 212), Paviljoni by Milena Marković (YDT), Supermarket by Biljana Srbljanović (YDT), Sudbina i komentari by Radoslav Petković (National Theatre), Seks za početnike by J. Mijović and J. Petrović (Malo pozorište «Duško Radović»), Glengarry Glen Ross by D. Mamet (Belgrade Drama Theatre).
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REVIEWS
…The director stages the play with discrete comic stylisation, but the key to building it up is in the performances of the four actors. Although ‘ranking’ them is more a matter of mere nuance, it is worth mentioning in particular the intonation which, both in their individual acting and in the way they act together, Branislav Lecic and Vladica Milosavljevic bring to the parts of Larry and Anna. With a refined feeling for comedy, they diligently weighed up and presented the means which reflect (self)irony, desire and fear…
Ksenija Radulovic, BLIC, February 2nd 1999
Erotska vrteška (Erotic Merry-go-round)
…The writer presents an organised, psychologically well-explained basis for the creation of convincing characters. Although his characters are standardised figures, they are also often ambiguous, even contradictory in their behaviour. This enables the director, Alisa Stojanovic, as well as the actors in the play to build the characters up, give them shadows, make the relationships more complex and, in the final event, to bring out onto the stage interesting, picturesque characters…
Vladimir Stamenkovic, NIN, 11, 03, 1999
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