SATURDAY, July 2nd 19,30
Pinocchio Puppet Theatre, Goce Delčeva 1
CSS Teatro Stabile di Innovazione Friuli Venezia Giulia/ CSS
Diary of a Serbian Housewife
A monodrama based on the eponymous novel by Mirjana Bobić Mojsilović
Adaptation and Dramaturge: Ksenija Martinović
Director: Fiona Sansone
Cast: Ksenija Martinović
Anđelka is a woman taking a long, hard look at her life - her childhood in Tito’s Yugoslavia, her youth and adulthood spent in Milošević’s Serbia. How to look at yourself in the mirror after so many years? To understand oneself, to understand an entire generation too young to have grown up so fast.
One tape recorder. Back in time, the ’60s through to the ’90s. A pioneer scarf. Newspapers. Words. Television. Diary.
Being Anđelka, being a woman, being part of a nation. A nation talked about by the whole world, a nation verging between a civilised world and fear, the fear of being misunderstood, the fear of being silenced. She sees Italy as a distant memory, as well as a dream for the future, a country of travels, music, fun, food.
A home open to the world. The home of a housewife. However, Anđelka is not your traditional housewife. She dances, she sings, she wants to be somebody, somebody famous.
So she sits, and waits, waits for a long time, like a forgotten doll. Unlike a doll, she takes charge of her life, she isn’t bored, she takes risks! The risks of loving, and being loved, of being a mother. She questions herself and her patriotism. She asks questions about her birth place, about where she belongs, about being Serbian. Choosing to be honest with herself, for once, with the spotlight on her, Anđelka tells us her story and reveals her secrets.
A WORD FROM THE SELECTOR
The eponymous novel by Mirjana Bobić Mojsilović served as a basis for this monodrama. With her acting skills alone, the actress draws the audience into her dreamworld showing them her emotional states and the changes in a Serbian woman who had lived her childhood in Tito’s Yugoslavia, and her teen years during the reign of Milošević’s regime and the NATO bombing...With the spotlight on her, the heroine evokes memories, exposes her secrets and shares them with the audience
