waiting for godot / Čekajući Godoa
By Samuel Beckett
Production of THREEPENNY/TRI GROŠA
Staged and performed as a part of the 7. Festival of International Students Theater (FIST)
Participation on the International student theater festival (Its Festival) in Amsterdam, nomination for the Guest award
Critique in Serbian: http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/kultura.71.html:592859-Pozorisna-kritika-Cekajuci-smisao
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As a result of the brilliant performance of the young actors and the simple and modest reading of the play this "Godot" was a success. Directors didn't impose their interpretations of the text by giving the answers to the major questions of "who or what is Godot". They just staged the play as it is: a series of situations that the actors-characters (internally called "charactors") create in order to kill time in the most pleasing way for themselves as well as the audience. The scenography in the spirit of constructivism, created exclusively from stage platforms, provided a perfect playground for the game. The "charactors" are very much aware of the audience; this simple awareness culminates near the end in an interaction with the audience.
"The guts to interpret Waiting for Godot in this way has moved the jury deeply. In spite of the linguistic barrier we were swept along and moved by the character’s madness andhopelessness. The unexpected caesura in the performance was arresting and exciting." From the nomination for the IT's Festival Guest Award in Amsterdam 2012.
Full cast and crew
Text by Samuel Beckett
Translator Petar Pjanić
Directed by Marija Lipkovski and Ana Popović
Production of the 7. FIST and Tri Groša
Producer Una Stevanović
Costume design: Milica Požar and Nevenka Šmitran
Stage design: Nevena Prodanović and Tamara Joksimović
Actors:
Ivan Mihailović
Uroš Jakovljević
Dejan Dedić
Vladimir Tešović
photo gallery (Dom Omladine, Belgrade, June 2015)
Photo by Veljko Zivkovic
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Veljko Živković