On Saturday, October 24, a performance A professional will be performed for the 50th time in the Zvezdara Theater. It premiered on February 21 of this year, which means that it reached its first anniversary in just four months.
This is a new setting. A professional, the premiere of the first was on January 10, 1990.
A professional was written and both times directed by Dušan Kovačević.
About people and politics
"The story of a man from the opposition eager for justice and civil freedom and the policeman who is in charge of his subversive life and work ends with a meeting, conflict and reconciliation and the knowledge that politics has destroyed their lives. And from the experience of performing this drama in the world, the story is the same or similar, only the names of the people, political parties and secret services are slightly different," said Kovačević on the occasion of the premiere.
Also this: "The play was written almost 40 years ago, and the first play was performed almost 25 years ago. We have agreed to do a new version of the same story. We will try to make it something that is relevant and important."
"Since the time of writing A professional, with the exception of two scenes, I didn't write anything - nothing significant and important. The debate between a policeman, a member of state security, and a writer today is the same as if the play was written yesterday. And that is what is exciting, beautiful and tragic. It is incredible that in forty years - from writing about the government and communism of that time, through the arrival of so-called democracy and the departure of communism that never really went away - little has changed. Actually, we are doing the same story," said Dušan Kovačević.
Prizes
The play stars Igor Đorđević, Nenad Jezdić, Ana Franić and Duško Ašković. Scenography was done by Vladislava Munić Cunnington, costume designer by Dragica Laušević, composer and music selection by Vladimir Marković.
The play won numerous awards at festivals. At this year's Sterija Theater, Dušan Kovačević received an award for the text of a contemporary drama, Nenad Jezdić for an acting performance, and the performance as a whole received an audience award with a rating of 4,77.
And at the just concluded Vršac Theater Autumn, two more: the audience award for the best performance and a special award that Nenad Jezdić and Igor Đorđević received for their partner play.
During November A professional embarks on a tour in Montenegro, where guest appearances are planned in Kotor, Nikšić, Herceg Novi, Bar and Tivat.
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