HOLLOW BOTTOM

Author: Goran Stefanovski
Direction: Angelcho Ilievski
Scenographer: Valentin Svetozarev
Composer: Marjan Necak
Costume designer: Blagoj Micevski
Caper: Zorka Djakovska
Inspector: Miroslav Lazarevski
Photographer: Aleksandar Jonacic

Premiere: 01.04.2017

Roles:

Jacob: Martin Mirchevski
God: Petar Mircevski
Paraskeva: Gabriela Petrushevska
Christina: Katerina Anevska

In such a chaotic time in which we live, a time in which theater and art lost their direction, I had a great need to work on the text "Double Bottom" by Goran Stefanovski. Together with a very serious team, we made a play that raises very serious questions. The play talks about freedom, for the artist, about his status and position, talks about what are the values ​​in theater and art today, because I feel that they have been lost lately. The play is a cry for the artist's freedom. The artist must be a corrective to the government, the artist must be the watchful eye of society, which will follow all his anomalies and he must find a way to comment on them. That is the mission of the artist. No matter what the government is, whatever that authority is, the artist must comment on all her mistakes, all wrong decisions. The artist becomes a slave the moment he sells his own soul to the government, and from that moment his freedom ended. Freedom is a choice just as obedience is a choice.

Angelcho Ilievski, director

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