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SUPERMARKET
by: Biljana Srbljanović
Directed by:
Alisa Stojanović
9 December 2001, Theatre „Bojan Stupica
Running time approx. 1h 20 |
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Cast:
Brita SLOBODAN NINKOVIĆ/ SRDJAN TIMAROV
Miller, Female Colleague CVIJETA MESIĆ
Meier, Male Colleague GORAN ŠUŠLJIK
Dijana Crnojević Schwarz PAULINA MANOV
Little Guy BORIS MILIVOJEVIĆ
Leonid Crnojević Schwarz PREDRAG EJDUS
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ABOUT THE WRITER
BILJANA SRBLJANOVIĆ was born in 1970 in Sweden. She graduated in dramaturgy at the faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She works as assistant to Professor Filip David.
Her dramas include Belgrade Trilogy, Family Tales, The Fall, Supermarket, God Saves America, Hocust.
Her dramas have been translated into German, English, French, Italian, Slovenian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish...
Awards: Slobodan Selenić, Sterija’s Award (Family Tales), Ernest Toller.
Biljana Srbljanović’s plays have been performed at about 150 domestic and foreign theatres.
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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
...Truth-loving Biljana Srbljanović is good at finding her way in a world of which she does not entertain a high opinion. And her Supermarket, directed by Alisa Stojanović and performed at «Bojan Stupica» Theatre, also belongs to so-called unpleasant plays.
And ‘unpleasant’ is putting it mildly. It could also be said of this vehemently polemic play that it is unbearable, nasty, ugly, dirty, cruel, cynical, comic, dramatic, odious, swearing, brutal, and unscrupulous. All this could be said, or everyone could say some of it, but it would not be the end of the story of Biljana Srbljanović, her plays, her world, or the people the young dramatist writes about…
The Way of the World, Muharem Pervić, Politika
… Alisa Stojanović interprets the play in the spirit of the burlesque, and, insisting on the grotesque, directs the elements of the abstract towards, speaking on the level of genre, more firmly and precisely defined situations, while parodying TV soap operas and suggesting the shallowness of the situation, which no one of the characters is even trying to get out of. On the contrary, the performance shows that the drama of history has definitively ended, and that we are witnessing a play that is only feigning a drama, and in fact implies pretence. Hence in a world ruled by the principle of political correctness it does not matter whether Leon Schwarz is or is not a former East German dissident-hero (the magnificent Predrag Ejdus, the tragicomic pivot of the play)… It matters, however, to preserve the illusion – the only guarantee of ‘to be continued’…
In the World of Lies, Aleksandar Milosavljević, Reporter
… Speaking about the actors’ part of the job, it must be pointed out that the part of an immigrant permanently working in his new homeland, performed by Predrag Ejdus, was more than just a creation. Namely, the way in which Predrag Ejdus played the part of this man without insight into his own life, implies a serious analysis of the part and a continuous search for many solutions, the consequence of which is, of course, a solution rarely seen…
Life, Naturally, Does Not Exist, Željko Jovanović, Blic
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