The National Theater "Sterija" from Vršac opens its season tomorrow, Sunday, with the premiere of an interactive play for children (and adults). Hearts of stone.
She wrote it, says Marina Milivojević Madjarev for the "Vremena" portal, "in the darkest darkness of the nineties, while guns were firing and cannons were firing around us, for big and small children, about how to defeat Bara-horn-fear-and-doubt."
Fear and doubt reigned all around us then, he says, and "it was really important to figure out a way to get on her tail." That's why I wrote a play about three friends. Brave Heart defends itself from Baba-Horn-Fear-and-Doubt with unreasonable courage, Fast Wind before Baba-Horn flees into imagination and play, and Zhu-zhu who is determined to organize the boys and lead them into a decisive battle against the attack. On the way, they meet Princess Cinza-Linca, who is dragging a large and heavy trunk behind her.
And in that coffin, says Marina Magyarev, are "wonderful dreams about the Prince-on-a-white-horse whom she went to look for when he already can't find her."
Friends are wondering who is the Princess? And what is so important about that coffin? Can the Princess be trusted or should she be feared? Or maybe it's best to pre-emptively attack her?
And there follows somewhere the answer to the question - how does the heart become petrified?
"Step by step, the friends realize that Baba-Roga wins because doubt first sneaks into the heart, and it opens the door wide for fear." Then he attacks Baba-Rog and his heart turns to stone. And he who has a heart of stone, in fact, has no heart and can do the most terrible things in the world. Unless…”
Let's not reveal any further.
Using the techniques and methods of the creative dramatic process and applied theater, the director of the play Bojana Ivanov-Đorđević and her colleagues at NP Sterija developed an interactive theater.
"Sometimes it is the game that helps to overcome difficult or unpleasant life circumstances," says Bojana Ivanov-Đorđević. "Keeping in mind that the key component of the game is interaction, we decided to create a theater in which the audience will be able to participate." We have already successfully applied this working principle in "Theatre Laboratory" and will apply it in "Hearts of Stone" as well. We will invite the children to defeat Baba-Horn-Fear-and-Doubt together."
The play features: Srđan Radivojević, Ivan Đorđević, Jovana Andrejević-Grujić and Jovana Božić. The stage and costumes were created by Sofija Lučić, and the music by Snežana Milanović. The choreographer is Aleksandra Pejić.
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