Interview: Igor Burić, theater critic and musician

23.September 2026 Nataša Gvozdenović

Creation as a refuge

We often make up for the fact that we are not professional musicians with practice and courage. It's one thing when you're a professional musician... It's like playing football in front of a building, not at Wembley. It is much rawer, more alive, more energetic in front of the building, has more mistakes, is not refined or mathematically precise. However, it gives him something without which there would be no football

Interview: Ozren Grabarić, actor

27.November 2024 Nataša Gvozdenović

The deeper meaning of the game

"In one part of my growing up in the theater, experimental theater had a negative connotation, and only later a positive one. People sometimes think that experimental has to be shocking, but it often isn't. Today, if an actor comes on stage and tells a story, we can understand it as experimental theater in this accumulation of microphones, technology, lights... If only one man came and told a story, that would be experimental theater for me today."

Theater: Master and Margarita

God or hell

In the play, it is not entirely clear what the connection is between the position of the obedient cultural worker then and the position of the obedient cultural worker today. The novel carefully analyzes the relationship between the brutal Stalinist system and those who agree to serve it with their intellectual work. In the play, this dimension of the novel was lost

Theater: 1981.

The strength of the unity of the (theatre) community

As the family stories grew into each other, so did the material for the play. The structure of that play was organically linked to the process of its creation. The overall impression of the play has something of the structure of a novel One hundred years of solitude - the individual stories intersect in such a way that the reader in the novel, and the viewer in the play, can hardly "grasp" all its branches, but feels the whole very well