A BOOK ON THE BOOK BY MARKO UVODIĆ FROM SPLIT
based on prose motives by Marko Uvodić from Split compiled by Olja Lozica
Opening night: CNT Split Backyard, July 19 2007
Reruns: July 20, 21 and 22 2007
 

Director Goran Golovko
Dramaturge Olja Lozica
Set Designer Ozren Bakotić
Costume Designer Mirjana Zagorec
Music composed by Nela Bujas - Luketić
 

 
Cast:
ŠJOR MARIN, The owner of an overseas agency, widower Ratko Glavina
MARE, his oldest daughter Nives Ivanković
ŽIŽE, Mara’s husband Nikola Ivošević
KATE, šjor Marin's middle daughter Jasmina Žiljak
ANJEŽA, šjor Marin's youngest daughter Lana Barić
ŠJOR VICE, a grocer Nenad Srdelić
FABJAN, a salesman in a grocery Vicko Bilandžić
TONI, Fabjan’s best friend Robert Kurbaša
ŠJOR TOMA, finance policeman  Ilija Zovko
BETE, a matchmaker  Tajana Jovanović
LUCE, Dujko’s wife Snježana Sinovčić- Šiškov
DUJKO, Lucija’s husband, , Žiža’s friend Ante Čedo Martinić
ROŽA, a hairdresser Ksenija Prohaska
JELE, a spinster Silvana Stanić

Linguisttic Consultant Jagoda Granić
Light Designer Miroslav Mamić
Stage Manager: Mark - Anton Gančević
 

Jokes by Uvodić, witnesses of Split that has been gone for a long time, inspired this new dramatization of “A Book” that analyzes patriarchal family relations and the eternal issue of man – woman relationship inside Mediterranean, smalltown community. New and different insight of the old Split, connecting tradition and contemporary, created an individual piece that reveals certain unspoken details from the life of Ujević’s heroes. It is the story of a widower and his three daughters, a story that opens numerous happy and unhappy destinies in one courtyard in Split, where everybody is struggling for their right to love. This struggle has never been easy, especially in a place where the feeling of responsibility towards the elders has been and is grounds for survival. The stage in Theatre backyard will be a battlefield of love from the thirties, together with laugh and tears so typical for the bitterness of Ujević’s warm sense of humor.
 

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