24 August 2019 - A Novel about London, based on the novel of the same name by Miloš Crnjanski and directed by Ana Djordjevic will be played at the Purgatorije Festival in Tivat, as announced from the Culture Centre Tivat. The show will be performed in the Great Hall of the Tivat Culture Centre on Sunday 25 August at 9 p.m.
It has been produced by Beogradsko dramsko pozorište - Belgrade Drama Theatre and "Beo Art".
Cast: Milan Maric, Branko Cvejic, Milica Zaric, Ljubinka Klaric, Milan Cucilovic, Ivana Nikolic, Srdjan Dedic and Davor Perunovic.
Based on the personal experience of the writer, “A Novel about London” is the story of the troubled lives of expatriates abroad. It traces the lives of two Russian refugees, a married couple who, in the years after World War II, barely make ends meet in London, in an unknown, inhospitable, foreign city.
The question is, is there any place for happiness in the post-war world where there are no friends, but only acquaintances and passers-by, where even in the crowd, everybody is alone?
The friable and humid London apartments and rooms are a picture of the desolate souls of expatriates, married couples like Rjepnin and Nadja, in which in silence and poverty, they live with painful memories, feelings of non-attachment and anxiety. What is the existence in which, besides bare life, you miss everything: fatherland, friends, family, and even those who are right next to you?
Miloš Crnjanski (26 October 1893 – 30 November 1977) was a poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, and a diplomat. From his beginnings as a journalist whose social-political stance was at one moment openly opposed to freedom and progress, he gradually arose to become a poet and romanticist.
Ana Djordjevic (1977) completed theatre and radio directing at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade. She has directed performances in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Skopje, Podgorica, Subotica, Sombor, Banja Luka, Krusevac, Vranje, Nis. She is the author or co-author of a number of dramatizations and authored texts she has directed. She has received several national and regional awards.
