POWER OR LOVE - This is the story of a ruler - an absolutist - who gathers the entire worldly and spiritual power in his hands. In such conditions, the people have no right to speak, nor to think or feel, and when he is silent, that silence also has its own meaning. His absolute power, refracting in the mirror of his beloved wife, it shatters into a thousand pieces of vanity, envy, fear, malice, jealousy and the like. He is put in a situation to decide: Either to show himself thus exposed before the subjects and the world, or to break the mirror which exposes him as such. In other words, to be a king or a man, to embrace power or love. And unfortunately, the motive for power proves to be stronger than love. According to some modern studies, it is even stronger than the maternal motive. But this is not a play only for the ruler - an absolutist. He cannot be born, nor to flourish, if there is no fertile ground for it. This is a play for those who create and support everything in order to get a crumb that has fallen from the table of power.. And when the ruler is gone, they survive, because they are eternal and immediately rush to create a new ruler, all with the same goal.

Ljupcho Gjorgievski

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Grigory Gorin (1940 – 2000) is one of the most significant and popular playwrights of Russia, screenwriter and writer, a classic of satirical prose.

He graduated from medical school and worked as a doctor. For some time he searched for himself between medicine and dramaturgy, until he gave preference to the second, and later discovered the film. From his very beginnings as a playwright and screenwriter, cooperates with the famous theater "Lenkom", where the famous director Mark Zakharov stages his plays: "To forget Herostratus", "The language", "The House That Swift Built". From the creative collaboration with Zakharov, Soviet hits are born, as "Formula of Love", "Just that Munchausen", "To Kill a Mockingbird". He also performs on television with his own programs. With the show "About Laughter", gained great popularity.

In most of his works, Grigory Gorin makes the viewer reconsider his idea of ​​the world of historical events and intimacy, giving his jokes and ironic interpretations of history and everyday life a deep philosophical meaning. Thanks to that, Gorin's works are still relevant today.

The inspiration for the play "Royal Games" comes from the historical drama of the famous American playwright and theater theorist Maxwell Anderson - "A Thousand Days of Anne Boleyn". Based on the chronicles of the reign of the fierce and depraved Henry VIII, this play was just good material for playwright Grigory Gorin, which will create a rich stage fantasy on a theme: between love and fierce games with passions.

Olivera Pavlovic