MILENA MARKOVIĆ
BROD ZA LUTKE

Directed by Slobodan Unkovski

Premiere: June 5th 2006, Main Theatre

CAST:

From the Interview with Milena Marković
I think that fairy-tales are bloody ritual initiation of children into the world of grown-ups. They are full of specific signs and symbols related to eros and death, to violence, to different psychological models, in an archetypal sence, not those from applied psychology... I really wanted to write my version of Peer Gynt, a story about aspiration for coherence of person which can’t be realized if a man refuses to act within the framework of given model, because of big demands, desires and sensitivity. True wholness is not possible, but an artist can achieve it with uncompromising selfimprovement. In fairy-tales, especially in old-ones, there are characters that are not good or bad, they are simply choosen. Those are the fairy-tales that I love...

About author

MILENA MARKOVIĆ – playwright, poet, screenwriter. She was born on the April 9th 1974 in Zemun, Serbia and she has finished elementary school and gymnasium in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Drama Arts, Dramaturgy Department, in June 1998, with play Paviljoni, ili kuda idem, odakle dolazim i šta ima za večeru (Pavilions, or where do I go, where did I come from and what’s for dinner). This play she won a special award at Theater m.b.H. in Vienna and was premiered in 2001 in YDT, directed by Alisa Stojanović. After that, it was staged in National Theatre in Skopje (directed by Srđan Janićijević) and in Theater m.b.H. in Vienna (by Zijah Sokolović).
Book of poetry Pas koji je poj’o sunce (Dog Who Ate Sun) was published by Flavio Rigonat in April 2001 in Belgrade, and republished twice afterward.
Year 2002 she took part in the R.C.T. Summer International Residency in London with her new play Bog nas pogledao – Šine (God has looked upon us - Tracks), which was first produced in YDT, directed by Slobodan Unkovski.
It was also staged in Poznan, Poland, directed by Rafal Sabara. This production took part inSterijino pozorje Festivalin Novi Sad and won a special award for contemporary play.
In October of 2003 second book of her poetry, Istina ima teranje (The Truth is being in Heat), was published by LOM, Flavio Rigonat.
The YDT production of Tracks was part of the Festival of New Dramain Wiesbaden in 2004. Theatre Heute published the playin June of 2004.
Milena wrote a screenplay for a documentary The Miners’ Opera, directed by Oleg Novković.
Her play Šuma blista (The Wood Glitters) was staged for the first time in Schauspielhaus theatre in Zürich.
She won the prize"Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz" for the play Boat for Dolls.
German premiere of Tracks took place in Aachen in November 2005.
In 2005 she wrote script for the film Sutra ujutro (Tomorrow Morning) directed by Oleg Novković, produced by Zillion Film, Belgrade.
Premiere of Nahod Simeon (Simeon the Foundling) directed by Tomi Janežič was held on May 25th at Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad.

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About Director
SLOBODAN UNKOVSKI – Has directed productions across the former Yugoslavia, in Italy, Russia, USA, Belgium, Sweden, Greece...
His first direction in Yugoslav Drama Theatre was in 1982 with the play Hrvatski Faust (The Croatian Faust) by Slobodan Šnajder. Following year this production toured to Theatre of Nations Festival in Nancy. His directing for YDT include: Pozorišne iluzije (The Theatre of Illusions) by Pierre Corneille in 1991, Powder Keg by Dejan Dukovski in 1995 (YDT has participated with this production at eight festivals in Europe and in the world), Tracks by Milena Marković in 2002 and The Seagull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in 2003.
He taught acting and directing at post-graduate couses at several universities in USA.