The long-time associate of the National Theater, the guest from Russia, Alexander Isakov, is an honored artist of Russia, chief director of the St. Petersburg State Theater of Musical Comedy. He is the head and professor of the Department of Directing and Acting at the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Professional Unions.
The play "Divine Comedy" by Isidor Stock is his fourth production at the National Theater in Bitola. His collaboration with this theater begins in 1997 year. with the staging of the play "Marriage" by N. Gogol. Then follow the performances "I travel, I travel..." by N. Kolyada (2001) and "Minchausen" by G. Horyn (2011).
Although the title "Divine Comedy" in our consciousness is inseparably forever associated with the name of the famous Dante Alighieri, this play has nothing to do with his work. The inspiration for the play of the same name, the Soviet playwright Isidor Stock got it from the series of cheerful drawings-graphics of the French artist Jean Effel, released in four albums (1984) entitled "The Creation of the World". Eiffel in an original way, insightfully and wittily retells the biblical version of creation with commentary for the widest readership. From those motives, Stock builds an ironic and at the same time lyrical dramatic action, in whose center of events is the love between a man and a woman.

Olivera Pavlovic

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The play "Divine Comedy" is a story about the birth of love on earth. No heaven can replace those feelings. And what if Adam and Eve did not taste the forbidden fruit, if they were not afraid of God's wrath? Their children would not be born, and their children's children. We wouldn't have them today either. I, of course, our play would not have appeared.

Alexander Isakov