MENAGERIE

Inspired by the closing scenes of Tennessee Williams' play the Glass Menagerie, the authors' project under the working title of Menagerie has been realised by the director – dramaturge team of Anica Tomiæ and Jelena Kovaèiæ. A family dinner situation is both destroyed and kept together by the appearance of a long-expected guest through which longing for the Other is permeated. An extreme emotionality seeps through the cracks of everyday conversations composed of phrases repeated for the umpteenth time, catching the characters unprepared. Once again, the authors deal with a family community threatened to be destroyed, this time examining the ability of the theatre to endure – in the situation of the co-existence of the spectator and the actor - sincere emotionality which confronts the spectator with the authentic vulnerability of the make-believe protagonists and actors' bodies. The characters repeat same sentences again and again, which then accidentally or deliberately decompose them into extreme emotions. Their questions are addressed to ourselves, but also to those facing us - in life, as well as in theatre.