The Homeland Movement asks the Croatian National Theater in Split to remove from the repertoire the play based on the columns of Viktor Ivančić, directed by the Belgrade director Kokan Mladenović.
In the Croatian National Theater in Split, on Wednesday, November 20, the premiere of the play "Robi K. / The Little Red Riding Hood is Dead" by Viktor Ivančić, directed by Belgrade director Kokan Mladenović, took place. The applause was extremely big, everyone was satisfied, except - the Homeland Movement.
As Zagreb's "Novosti" writes, the Homeland Movement immediately after the premiere (it is not known if they attended it) drafted a statement demanding that the Croatian National Theater remove this play from its repertoire.
The performance through the eyes of DP
They say that Ivančić's piece "represents a mockery of everything that is sacred and valuable to Croats", and that it "openly belittles the victims of Vukovar, mocks Our Lady of Medjugorje, and is used as a platform for undisguised Yugoslav nostalgia and agitation for a failed state".
They also claim that this is "a shallow pamphlet that insults national values, feelings of the Croatian people and the foundations of modern Croatia, makes fun of the Homeland War, which is a symbol of the struggle for freedom and independence, and crosses all limits of what is acceptable." They also assess that the play is "unwatchable and offensive, far from any artistic expression".
Already in writing in Ivančić's columns
Kokan Mladenović told the "Vremena" portal that "he would be surprised if they did not react, why would the Croatian right-wingers be different from the Serbian ones".
"There is nothing in the play that is not in the already published columns of Viktor Ivančić. So everyone knows what he thinks about the church, about Vukovar, about the abuse of patriotism and the victims of war. It affects them the same way it would affect Serbian right-wingers if Srebrenica were talked about in a play here," says Mladenović.
He recalls that in May 2012, when he was the director of "Atelier 212", after the premiere of the play "Zoran Đinđić" directed by Oliver Frljić, a tabloid published his photo with the text that he is the leader of the Ustasha lobby in Belgrade.
"There they say I'm a Chetnik, and here I'm an Ustasa." So, everything is fine," says Mladenović.
The Democratic Movement is not in the Split Assembly, but in Croatia it is "and people have gotten used to their outbursts." This will not affect the Croatian National Theater in Split, nor the audience. I know that all six reruns, for the next month and a half, are sold out", concludes Kokan Mladenović.
Nine-year-old Robbie K.
For the catalog of this play by the Croatian National Theater in Split, Kokan Mladenović wrote:
"Robi K, by Viktor Ivančić, the most famous nine-year-old boy in our area, tries to understand the world and himself in it in circumstances that are completely incomprehensible to mature and educated people, let alone to someone who is just entering life.
Robbie K, therefore, lives his anxious childhood in a constant convulsion that he is guilty of something, and this convulsion is transferred to his dreams. There it multiplies to incredible proportions, and then returns to reality, more absurd than monitpython sketches.
Robbie will do everything to prove that he is loyal, worthy and 'the right boy in the right place', and in trying to do so he falls from one absurd situation to another and exposes the senselessness, absurdity and hypocrisy that make up his world. Let's be his companions on that journey, we, aged nine-year-olds who once imagined the world as better and fairer than the one we have to live in now."
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