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Oct 11 / 8 pm / Princely Serbian Theatre
Production: Novi Sad Theatre (Újvidéki Színház) / Sterijino pozorje (Serbia)
Duration: 90 mins / no intermission /
About the performance:
He is an adventurer, brave, strong, seductive, narcissistic, witty, spoiled and vulnerable... adored by women and friends. He's Johnny Long Johnson! Speaking about Johnny, one of the most promising writers of the younger generation, Filip Grujić, says that his intention was to create a character full of contradictions. He is carefree and gentle, and at the same time impudent and scared.
Director about the performance:
The beauty of the character is that he is different things for different people, because he doesn't even know who he is; it’s the theme of the play, growing up. If we seek him out in literature, we will recognize the motifs and, or, the atmosphere of Roberto Zucco, perhaps Baal, in any case that of a young antihero, just like with Lagarce in It's Only the End of the World, or Kerouac… If we binge-watch Netflix, we will recognize Johnny in one of the indie arrogant, witty kids in "The End of the F***ing World," " Genera+ion", the list goes on. For me personally, Johnny is witty, brave, vulnerable, spoiled and, above all, impudent, and today that’s something we are really in short supply of.“
Comments on the performance:
"If an adventure like Odyssey were possible today, its protagonist is not a father looking for a way back home and to his family - but a"prodigal son"who, searching for his father –all the while opposing the "female" principle - strives to find himself. Starting from the insolent, disheveled, childishlywise miniature of Filip Grujić, "pulled" through the dynamic, cunningly "unbalanced" genredramatization of Dimitrije Kokanov, director Jovana Tomić, in cooperation with an imaginative group of collaborators and an agile cast of the Novi Sad theatre, proffers an intriguing example of such an "inverted quest" - a story of fatal wins and precious defeats."
Svetislav Jovanov, Nova.rs
Nataša Gvozdenović, Vreme
Uroš Ristanović, Ekspres.net
Director: Jovana Tomić
Dramatization: Dimitrije Kokanov
Translated by: Robert Lenard
Set design: Jasmina Holbus
Costume design: Selena Orb
Music: Luka Major
Stage movement: Igor Koruga
Cast:
Robert Ožvar
Bence Salai
Terezia Figura
Agota Ferenc
Ištvan Kereši
Zoltan Molnar
Fani Dupak