SONNETS
of Jovan Ristovski
Based on William Shakespeare's Sonnets
Director:Jovan Ristovski
Playwright: Biljana Krajchevska
Costume designer : Blagoj Micevski
Choice of music: Jovan Ristovski-Jovica
Ton: Aleksandar Dimovski
Light: Ilija Dimovski, Igor Micevski
Inspector: Mirko Lazarevski
Photography: Kosta Dupchinov
Premiere: 18.04.2016
Roles:
Juliana Mirchevska: The abnormal ones, The witches
Ilina Chorevska: Cika Picasso
Elena Moshe: Cika Pkas
Aleksandar Kopanja: The cry
Victoria Stepanovska-Jankulovska: Gu Gu
Fiery Drangovski: The man
Gabriela Petrushevska: Magna Mater
When I think of our planet earth, and everything that exists on it, it took my breath away, I'm shivering with excitement, I experience euphoria and tears at our being… Are we humans destroyers or creators?
Jovan Ristovski Jovica, director
Shakespeare's sonnets are extremely brave, unconventional, lucid; Shakespeare plays in them, provokes, it questions itself and us, offering us a complex view of life in which we can never distance ourselves from the questioning of the most important problems plaguing today.
Prompted by this dramatic potential of the Sonnets, although Shakespeare may never have imagined that his Sonnets would be staged as a play, the director Jovan Ristovski creates an equally unusual theatrical world with a dramatic premise-material inspired by this poetic creation. I say unusual because not only in sensibility, but also in form and content, this play has its own expression, starting with the language the actors use (gibberish-made-up language) through which explicit forms of speech are articulated - which simply comments on the humor that, unfortunately, is still covered under the term comedy today. Let me go back to the beginning. The "Ш"-name of the play implies an end, and the "end" of the play should hint at a new beginning:
..." Look in the mirror and tell the person you see
the time has come for that person to create another". (Sonnet 3 from V. Shakespeare).
Start outside or inside the world of Witches (The Corinthics) who, similar to the masters from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, create "theatre"(world) which is constantly being "infected" i.e. melted and destroyed by Man - the main culprit for the collapse of every natural or social construction, and in the end even imaginatively creative. He enjoys conformism without forgiveness and in the name of "love" he deforms everything that is created and not created.. He decides: Individual vs collectivity, stereotypes and prejudices, criticality or conformity, emotions or ratio. Around; silhouettes, popular culture, stylized and expansive gestures, acting archive of emotions and comments in the context of the thoughts of the modern man, lamps, obscene sounds, strange wigs-symbolism that maybe somewhere will barely make it to the end. And to what end? The strongest argument actually ends up in the audience- she is the eye in which the scene is reflected: to become exactly the change we want to see in the world.
Biljana Krajchevska, playwright











