BIOGRAPHIES:
JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE (1622-1673) was the son of Marie Cressé and Jean Poquelin, a Parisian furniture tradesman and King’s carpenter. Moliere had not finished his Law studies and he gave up his father’s craft but with the actress Madeleine Béjart founded „Illustre Theatre”. After fiasco in Paris, the company left for the province, where they had performed for the next ten years.
In 1658 Moliere gained King Louis XIV’s favour and also permission to play in the Petit Royal Hall.
In 1660 the King Louis XIV assigned Moliere’s company Petit Royal Hall.
In 1662 Moliere married with Armande Béjart. His adversaries
spread rumours that he married his own daughter. To make them
silent, Louis XIV became a godfather of the Moliere’s child.
Moliere died on the stage, during the performance of his last comedy The Hypochondriac.
Most famous works: Tartuffe, Don Juan, The Misanthrope, The Miser,
The School for Wives, Learned Ladies, The
Hypochondriac.
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV (1891-1940) was born in Kiev in the family of significant intellectuals. Mikhail graduated from the Medical Faculty in Kiev and was an army doctor on front during First World War. He is one of the most important Russian writers and intellectuals.
His works have been often censured and disputed during Stalin’s period. The play The Cabal of Hypocrites after five years of disposing was staged finally staged in 1936. After only few evenings, one negative critic appeared in papers Pravda and the performance was censored. Soon after that, complete Bulgakov’s work in whole Soviet Union had the same destiny – his work disappeared from the theatre stages. Bulgakov was rehabilitated after Stalin’s period.
DUŠAN JOVANOVIĆ
He graduated French and English language and literature from the Faculty of the Philology in Ljubljana and Theatre directing from the Academy of Theatre Arts in Ljubljana. Jovanović works as a professor of directing at the Academy of Theatre Arts in Ljubljana.
He writes dramas, radio dramas, TV screenplays (for TV dramas and serials), news articles and essays. Dozens of his works have been published and staged: Ludaci (Lunatics), Život provincijskih plejboja posle II svetskog rata (The Life of a Provincial Playboy after the Second World War), Žrtve mode (Fashion Victims), Igrajmo tumor u glavi (Let’s Play Tumor In Head), Oslobodjenje Skoplja (The Liberation of Skopje), Karamazovi (Karamazovs), Vojna tajna (Top Secret), Vikor ili Dan Mladosti (Victor or The Youth Day), Zid, jezero (Wall, Lake), Don Žuan u agoniji (Don Huan in Agony), Antigona, Ko to peva Sizifa? (Who sings Sisyphus?)... His plays have been performed in many ex-Yugoslav theatres (in Ljubljana, Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Skoplje, Novi Sad, Subotica, Rijeka, Split...) and also translated into Polish, German, Hungarian, Czech, Italian, French, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovakian...).
He has directed more then 80 theatre performances (Cankar, Krleža, Nušić, Smole, Kovačević, Hieng, Svetina, Šeligo, Ionesco, Vitrak, Schiller, Shakespeare, Bühner, Strindberg, Gorky, Chekhov, Gombrovič, Havel, Shepard, Albee, O'Neil, Moliére, Misse...).
He won many most important theatre awards for his plays and theatre directing in ex-Yugoslavia. Dušan Jovanović lives and works in Slovenia.
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REVIEWS:
Finally a great performance!
...In this performance everything deserves the attribute "great": a multilayered but always actual theatre play, also multilayered and precise directing and serial of marvellous acting creations, excellent scene design, costume design, music… With this performance Dušan Jovanović establishes himself as one of the greatest ex-Yugoslav directors in last three decades... Making "Moliere" Jovanović reconstructs Bulgakov’s play and puts into focus a personal tragedy of the great artist, and relationship between artist and authority, and individual and state seems to be discrete but when it appears, it sounds mighty… Comeback of Miki Manojlović to our theatre is for sure a triumph. He is an actor of rich imagination, creative inspiration and original spirit. Manojlović strictly follows director’s instructions in which each gesture becomes mimic, and his voice intonation precisely measured...
Brotherhood of Hypocrisy
Miki Manojlović, a great Serbian actor, had his comeback to Belgrade with the role of Moliere. Indeed, happiness for all theatre fans. His Moliere is a human being, weak and strong, depending on a support which he gains. He is witty, precise, but somehow artistically ruffled; the artistic talent of Miki Manojlović is exceptional actor’s expression among us. Playing together with Bogdan Diklić, an actor whose actor’s tools and sensibility is very close to Manojlović’s, Manojlović had a company with no low moments. This could also be said for the whole ensemble. A director Dušan Jovanović has been changing dynamically his point of view to the Moliere’s life and death. Now we are in the audience, now behind the scene...
Dragana Bošković, Ekspres
Mum Was With Them Two
...Dušan Jovanović took side of the radical theatricality of a few motifs, and in that way he effectively avoided fall to associative line, a favourite discipline of Serbian directors or, in worse case, a fall into a tractate "about our gloomy reality", which is a custom in our theatre in the last decade. Jovanović unconsciously traced the road for our theatre in this social frame we are living and considering the way of perception we established. I use the word "unconsciously" because I talk about a kind of contemporary theatre which disappears from Belgrade theatres immediately after BITEF finishes...
Željko Jovanović, Blic
Artists and Rulers
...An event of the month, and perhaps of the season – Moliere – Another Life by Bulgakov, Moliere and Dušan Jovanović, a guest from Ljubljana, who also directed this marvellous play...
Goran Cvetković, Reporter
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