OR THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
Dramaturg: Biljana Krajchevska
Choreography: Kire Miladinoski
Set design: Daniela Dimitrovska
Costumes: Andrej Gjorgievski and Viktorija Arsovska
Cast: Joana Popovska, Ivan Jerchich, Ilina Chorevska, Ognen Drangovski, Borche Gjakovski, Nikola Projchevski, Petar Spirovski, Aleksandar Stefanovski, Zdravko Stojmirov
Producers: Aleksandar Lozanovski and Bojan Stefanovski
Duration: 80 minutes
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‘“Women Without a Man and That’s All" or "The House of Bernarda Alba" is a play about the closed nature, limitations and tyranny in a home. Alba’s home is a place where she spreads terror and where her five daughters are transformed into monsters under the weight of evil, animosity and gossip. The prohibition from contactsof any kind, because of the mourning for the father’s death, maximally inspires the family intrigues, emphasizes the evil and Adela dies because of her own decision to love and to be in love until the very end. Individual and personal solutions aren’t acceptable for Alba. This is a play that psychologically investigates the characters which are functioning in an environment of a family tyranny, matriarchy, evil and intrigues. In these conditions, psychological repression surfaces through ultimate modifications of the female body as well. Evil relations between characters transform the characters themselves to the level of physical defects and handicap.'
Sofija Ristevska, Director
'Life is a transformation, which the progress of humanity depends on. Man has always tended to achieve his goals, wanted to be what he really is and more. To be something else?
At first glance, this performance seems grotesque, extravagant.
Today’s modern turnabout is: Bernarda Alba’s five daughters are neither men nor women; they are a cultural metaphor of the being temporarilyexposed to family/social repression and social ethics. Finally, what is predetermined by gender? Emotionality, desire for children, animosity or aggression?
This play gives birth to many live associations to everydayness, with everything that is essential and compatible not only in women or men, but in human beings. I ask again, what is predetermined by gender?'
Biljana Krajchevska, Dramatist
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The Small Drama Theatre - Bitola was established in Bitola in 2008 by the former Minister of Culture Mr. Blagoj Stefanovski in cooperation with a group of very experienced and competent theatre workers with the aim to create high quality and innovative theatre productions and to stage powerful, socially relevant and theatrically appealing plays, to tackle questions of the contemporary life.
On the basis of the number of performances, awards and festival participations in Macedonia and abroad, the Small Drama Theatre - Bitola has been declared the most successful theatre in the country.
The Small Drama Theatre has produced 17 theatre projects, realised more than 150 performances at international festivals and tours and received around 40 international awards such as the ‘Grand Prix Award’, ‘Special Reward’, ‘Best Actress’, ‘Audience Award’...