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Oct 14 / 8 pm / Princely Serbian Theatre
Production: National Theatre Bitola (North Macedonia)
(video recording)
Duration: 102 mins
About the video recording, the performance and the "horses":
The online premiere of the performance They Shoot Horses, Don't They was on December 30, 2020, and the stage premiere at the National Theatre in Bitola will be on September 30, 2021. The theatrewas closed from March to October 2020. The work on the performance was soon interrupted due to the actors' illness and continued in December. Thisinformation best illustrates the situation in theatres in North Macedonia in the past year and a half.
Branislava Ilić
Director on the performance:
The performance They Shoot Horses, Don't They, have two dramaturgical directions. The first is narrative and largely follows the screenplay and the novel, the second is semiotic, personal-directorial and has a subjective character and role. The narrative direction generally speaks of the desperate struggle of Gloria, Robert and other characters to survive during the Great Depression in the 1930s America. They see the last chance for survival in a cash prize of a brutal dance show that lasts for months, and of course, ends fatally. Psychophysical depression, which is an epidemiological disease these days, and was present even then, is the main theme of the narrative dramaturgical direction. The ubiquitous inhumanity of today is started and developed by another dramaturgical direction, which deals with the same topics as the first one, but in a contemporary context.
Translation by: Snežana Krajčevska Pluškovska
Dramatized and directed by : Martin Kočovski
Assistant Director: Jovan Ristovski
Set and poster designer: Filip Jovanovski
Costume designer: Julijana Bojkova Najman
Music: Foltin
Cast:
Gloria – Ilina Čorevska
Robert – Nikola Stefanov
Alice – Valentina Gramosli
Rocky – Nikolče Projčevski, Anastazia Hristovska, Živko Borisov
Ruby – Viktorija Stepanovska-Jankulovska
James – Filip Mirčevski
Joel – Nikolče Projčevski
Jacky – Marija Stefanovska
Mario – Živko Borisov
Sailor – Zdravko Stojmirov
Shirley – Anastazia Hristovska
Fred – Aleksandar Stefanovski
Sound: Aleksandar Dimovski
Lighting design: Igor Micevski, Ilija Dimovski
Photography: Aleksandar Bunevski
Stage manager: Miroslav Lazarevski
Prompter: Gordana Mihajlovska
Hairstyle and makeup artist: Sasho Martinovski
Cameramen: Dimitar Kolondžovski, Aleksandar Kotevski, Stefan Gjorgjievski, Mimi Markovski
Video design and editing: Goce Veselinkovski