#Zagreb National Theatre

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Mario Diligente | Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

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Giovanni Messeri - Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb - photo by Tim Cross

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National Theatre in Zagreb, Croatia

Austrian vintage postcard, mailed in 1908 to Vienna, Austria

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Die Fledermaus Opera Croatian National Theatre Zagreb

Die Fledermaus Opera Croatian National Theatre Zagreb

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Zagreb (2) (3) (4) (5) by IVAN UJEVIC

Via Flickr:

(1) Hendrixov most (2) Worm moon (3) Arena ZG (4) Sava River (5) Croatian national theatre, HNK, at night     

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A nuanced and insightful interview with Mira from November 1996, in the middle of filming S4 of Babylon 5 - it touches on her war time experiences in Yugoslavia and the events that drove her from her home, and the similarities between her own life and that of Delenn. Once again, I am bowled over by the incredible integrity and courage she possessed:

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

It's the one subject that pains Mira Furlan to discuss. The one subject that invades her privacy. The one subject that so violates her very soul.

And yet, it's the one subject that can't be avoided.

Nearly five years to the day of this interview, Furlan left her homeland of Yugoslavia, which was about to be engulfed in a bloody and horrific civil war. Ethnic passions restrained by decades of Communist rule had been unleashed by its collapse. Fascistic Nationalists arose to take its place, many of them former Communists. In their lust for power, they tore apart a nation of disparate republics and peoples that had once been a dream of poets, intellectuals and writers.

As one of Yugoslavia's most prestigious actors, Furlan risked her life and fortune to perform in cities on both sides, in Croatia and in Serbia. She hoped that she could be a bridge of unity, a symbol of pacifism, a clarion warning what terrible price their country would pay for unleashing the war their leaders were about to start.

Except for her husband, Goran Gajic, no one supported her.

Her colleagues abandoned her. Nationalist demagogues threatened to have her killed. Anonymous death threats were left on her answering machine.

She could not go silently. Before she left Yugoslavia, Furlan picked up her pen and wrote a farewell letter to her country. The letter was published a few days later in Zagreb (the capital of Croatia) and Belgrade (the capital of Serbia), cities on opposite sides of the coming war. It began:

“I hereby wish to thank my co-citizens who have joined so unreservedly in this small, marginal and apparently not particularly significant campaign against me. Although marginal, it will change and mark my whole life. Which is, of course, totally irrelevant in the context of the death, destruction, devastation and bloodchilling crimes within which our life now goes on.

This is happening, however, to the one and only life I have. It seems that I've been chosen for some reason to be the filthy rag everyone uses to wipe the mud off their shoes. I am far too desperate to embark on a series of public polemics in the papers. I do, however, feel that I owe myself and my city at least a few words. Like at the end of some clumsy, painful love story, when you keep wanting, wrongly, to explain something more, even though you know at the bottom of your heart that words are wasted; there is no one left to hear them. It is over.”

In Yugoslavia, Furlan was a leading actress of film, television and stage. She appeared in over 25 films, and won two Golden Arenas for Best Actress, their equivalent of the Oscar. Among her acclaimed theatrical roles were Ophelia in Hamlet, Celimene in The Misanthrope, and the title role in Euripides' Helen.

Under socialist rule, the arts were state-funded. "Your star status didn't mean that you were making money. But there were other advantages. Money was not the main obsession. The absence of money gave you a certain degree of creative freedom. We had all the time in the world. Movies were shot forever. Theatre plays were rehearsed forever. I personally was bored with that; things were not quick enough for me. But you had the luxury of having time to explore, to enjoy the creative process. These were the few advantages of living in socialism."

The notion of "freedom" in the arts in a socialist country may come as a surprise to Americans raised on Cold War propaganda asserting the opposite. "With my generation, the Communists were dying off," Furlan said. "Their grip on the artists' community was not as strong as after the war (World War II), when you could be in prison for just saying the wrong sentence. So we didn't feel it. I grew up totally despising them - the so-called them - and not having anything to do with them. And they left me alone. So there was relative freedom. Theatre was free because no one cared, basically. It was so marginal to the cause of the regime that people were left to do what they wanted. Film was much more dangerous, thus much more controlled."

That started to change when the Nationalists came to power. "The Yugoslav Communists didn't have the force that these new Nationalists now have, because these new leaders feel that the world is starting from them. They're creating new realities, new history, new language, new values. There's always this passion in the beginning; as a citizen, you don't want to be touched by that passion, because it can cost you your life."

Life in the former Yugoslavia was a political lifestyle largely unknown to Americans. "It was a double life. People had their own private thoughts. Publicly, they behaved as was prescribed; the majority were members of the Communist Party. Opportunism ruled. I think all Eastern Europeans have that built in — no confidence in any government, in any politicians. But, a contradiction! When Communism collapsed, Nationalism was born out of the old Communism. Trained in opportunism, people easily converted from Communism to Nationalism. That's the irony of it. Nothing has changed. The same people, the same names. The same faces. They just converted, switched just like that. That's what's so ugly in that whole situation. You just watch it and cannot believe that people don't remember what they were saying just two months ago. They didn't learn anything. They actually jumped into the first trap, completely surrendering to those new Nationalist leaders that brought them only pain lsss and devastation."

“I have no other way of thinking. I cannot accept war as the only solution, I cannot force myself to hate, I cannot believe that weapons, killing, revenge, hatred, that such an accumulation of evil will ever solve anything. Each individual who personally accepts the war is in fact an accessory to the crime; must he not then take a part of the guilt for the war, a part of the responsibility?”

"Historically, there were all kinds of frustrations on all sides, among all the peoples of the former Yugoslavia. There was a general feeling that each of these peoples who lived together in the former Yugoslavia had been somehow abused by the others. And there was a lot of truth in that. Nationalism is always partly grounded in truth. The Nationalists' politics manipulated the existing anger and frustration of the people and put their emphasis on that, and that's how the war started. The new Nationalists, who were for the most part converted Communists, took all the media. Journalists, I think, and media in general, bear an incredible responsibility for what happened."

The Babylon 5 episode being filmed during this interview, "The Illusion of Truth," has some eerie parallels. An ISN news crew films a documentary on B5, only to use the footage in a propaganda film for President Clark's fascist regime. It's an allegory for how America was consumed by Senator Joe McCarthy's witch hunts in the 1950s. "Sometimes I'm so appalled by what Joe (Straczynski) knows. I happened to experience a witch hunt — as an object! — but it's nothing new. Old stuff."

Furlan drew the attention of the Nationalists after she travelled from her home in Zagreb, Croatia to Belgrade, Serbia to perform at the annual BITEF Festival. BITEF was an international theatre event attended by actors from across Europe. She believed that her participation was a statement that her profession should not be drawn into supporting any political or national ideas. She felt it was her responsibility to establish bridges and ties, "for the sake of something that would outlive this war and this hatred which is so foreign to me," she wrote at the time. But the political leaders in Croatia were furious with her — and targeted her as an example of what would happen to others who chose the same path. Fearful for their careers, if not for their lives, and perhaps even sympathetic of the Nationalist cause, none of her colleagues spoke up to defend her.

“I think, I know and I feel that it is my duty, the duty of our profession, to build bridges. To never give up on cooperation and community. Not that national community. The Professional community. The human community. And even when things are at their very worst, as they are now, we must insist to our last breath on building and sustaining a bond between people. This is how we pledge to the future. And one day it will come . . .

I was willing and I would still be willing to undertake all and any efforts, if the hatred hadn't suddenly overwhelmed me with its horrendous ferocity, hatred welling from the city I was born in. I am appalled by the force and magnitude of that hatred, by its perfect unanimity, by the fact that there was absolutely nobody who could see my gesture as my defense of the integrity of the profession, as my attempt to defend at least one excellent theatre performance.”

"People's behavior is mainly built on fear. People think, 'Let them destroy her but just leave us alone.' When the media went crazy in Yugoslavia, I was a good example. I was a perfect target. I was a totally unprotected woman. Woman, that's very important. The war propaganda was constantly in search of 'internal enemies' just to homogenize the people, and to put fear in their heads so they could manipulate them. It's interesting that the majority of the 'internal enemies' were women. It's a very misogynist culture. It's a very misogynist world. I happen to be partly Jewish, and that came into the picture nicely. And I was never very obedient in my life and career. I left projects that I didn't really believe in. I made some unexpected choices in my work and in my life. All of that got wrapped up - Liberal. Feminist. Whore. Jew. Everything. The media combined it into this juicy bundle and served it to the people, who devoured it."

Abandoned by her friends and colleagues, and living with the threat of assassination, Furlan and her husband left Yugoslavia on November 15, 1991 for New York. She left behind the open letter explaining her departure.

“I am sending this letter into a void, into darkness, without an inkling of who will read it and how, or in how many different ways it will be misused or abused. Chances are it will serve as food for the eternally hungry propaganda beast. Perhaps someone with a pure heart will read it after all.

I will be grateful to that someone.”

American life and culture were a difficult adjustment, both in her profession and her personal life. Furlan has found the acting profession, indeed the entire entertainment industry, radically different from what she knew. Unlike in Yugoslavia, she found that diverse acting talents in the United States were rarely appreciated, much less rewarded.

"It's a European tradition among actors. Serious actors build their career in the theatre," Furlan said. "It's a completely different thing in America. The theatre is so marginal. The theatre doesn't matter because it's not mass culture. It's not the money-making machine. So yeah, I've learned that. We had a crash course in capitalism in the toughest spot. Hollywood is probably the toughest spot on Earth that way, the most cruel. It's a struggle, it's a fight. It's all about publicity and agents and names. That's what I really hate about being an actor here. I hated many things about acting in Yugoslavia. I was frustrated, and felt hopeless as an actor in socialism. I hated many things there, but I really miss concentrating on my work, which should be enough ideally, and it's not. Here, it's just a tiny part of everything else. Everything else is much more important, and you have to do so much of it yourself because no one else cares. Doing stuff that takes away your energy and your concentration and your precious time. These telephone conversations with people who have no interest in you, who don't have interest in anything but quick and easy money."

Babylon 5 is Furlan's first major television role in the United States; in fact it was one of her first auditions. It was also her introduction to science fiction. "I'm completely new to this whole thing. I knew the basics of science fiction literature — Bradbury, Clarke, just general culture — but there wasn't anything remotely similar to this. I was shocked when I went to my first convention."

The similarities between Furlan's life and Delenn's travails are striking. But it seems that it's no more than an amazing coincidence. According to Furlan, Straczynski didn't even know about her personal history when she was hired to play Delenn. "He surprises me so many times. And sometimes I feel as if he's written something directly for me. But he didn't know anything about me. Nothing. When the series started, we talked and he found out."

Furlan was an only child, raised among adults in a family of university professors. What was it that led her into acting? "It was a game! I always wanted to study languages. I studied English and French when I finished high school. I did them together, languages and acting. I went to the Academy for Film, Theatre and TV, and the University. But it was the other part of me, the part that wants to play, that finally won over the serious part, the one who sits at home and reads and learns and does research. It started as a game, it started as 'Let's play.'

"When I started at the Academy, they always used me for comedy, for light, playful stuff. Then I did a play in which something clicked in me. It was an English play in a famous little avant garde theatre, with only me and another actor. It was a very heavy play about marriage, marriage in three stages, which ends with this woman committing suicide on stage. I was so much younger than the part I played, but it completely opened this world of reality in acting. It started a journey inward for me. Once you experience that, once you open up in that way - people talk about getting in touch with your emotions, that's what you do in acting. That's your main job. That's your profession.

"That's why I miss theatre. That's the beauty of doing theatre. You are in touch with the greatest writers of world literature. Their thoughts, their characters. That's unbeatable. That's a pleasure in itself, no matter in what way it forwards your so-called career. I miss film. I miss having time to try things to discover subtleties, layers, little things. The comforting thing on Babylon 5 is Joe's writing, which sometimes touches the depth of the classic literature."

If Straczynski were to ask her to write a B5 episode, what story would she tell?" I have an image for some reason of the set for The Wizard of Oz. I'm in the middle, kind of a Dorothy figure. On one side is G'Kar, and on the other side is Londo, and we walk towards some incredible adventure. Having them on each side of me would make me feel strong and protected, and I would dare to go anywhere!" She suggests that her cat could play Toto, and we agree that cats are very Minbari.

Babylon 5 is fiction. But much of that fiction is rooted in reality, the reality of our 20th Century. It's easy to turn off the TV each week at the end of the hour, put away the popcorn bowl and say, "Aw, that couldn't happen here." But it has. It does. And it will.

Delenn is a fictional character, but Mira Furlan is not. It's easy for a fictional character to risk her life for a cause. For a living human being with friends, family, and a successful career, that decision is much more difficult. Fiction often poses for its characters the question, "Will you sacrifice all for what you believe?" In the fictional world of Babylon 5, that question is, "Who are you?" Reality rarely presents any of us with that challenge. Few of us will ever know what our answer would be.

All Mira Furlan ever wanted was to experience the pure joy of acting, the inward exploration of her soul, and to share that exploration with her audience. But history forced her to explore down unseen paths, paths of darkness, the same paths that took countless lives in her homeland. History demanded, "Who are you?"

Mira answered, and suffered for it. She and Goran have started a new life in America, strangers in a strange land. Their experience reminds us that life may one day demand a test of our integrity. If it does, let us hope that we are equal to their courage.

[brookston]

Holidays 9.26

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Mozambique)

Bandaranaike Day (Sri Lanka)

Ceremony of the Dead (Khmer Republic)

Cheval Day (Horse Day; French Republic)

Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day (Australia)

Cordyceps Pandemic Day (The Last of Us)

Dive Bomb Day

Dominion Day (New Zealand)

European Day of Languages (EU)

Feast of Lamps (India)

Federal Trade Commission Day

Flag Day (Ecuador)

Fortnite Day

Ghatasthapana (Nepal)

Gilligan's Island Day

Grand Magal de Touba (Senegal)

Human Resource Professional Day

IgA Nephropathy (IgAN) Awareness Day

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (UN)

International Happiness at Work Day

International Tool Day

The Last of Us Day (a.k.a. Outbreak Day)

Lumberjack Day (a.k.a. Talk Like a Lumberjack Day, Eat Like a Lumberjack Day, Attack Wooden Objects Like a Lumberjack Day) [also Last Friday of Last Full Weekend]

Matchbook Day

Mesothelioma Awareness Day

Mid-Autumn Day (Scottish Highlands)

National Alpaca Day

National Amanda Day

National Black Men Day

National Compliance Officer Day

National Day of Praise and Worship

National Family Day

National Good Neighbor Day

National GORDIEday

National Got Checked Day

National Hari Day

National Law Enforcement Suicide Awareness Day

National Manufacturing Day (UK)

National PRIOR Tactile Pre-Baille Learning Day

National Ranboo Day

National Robot Day

National Situational Awareness Day

National Statistics Day (Indonesia)

NICU Remembrance Day

Old Holy Rood Day

Pearl Thusi Day

Revolution Day (Yemen)

Search For Your Baseball Cards Again Day

Shamu the Whale Day

Sharpfight Meadow Dragon Fight Day (Suffolk, UK)

Stanislav Petrov Day

Today's Awesome Because You Totally Don't Have To Bathe Day

United States Postal Service Day

Winnie Mandela Day (South Africa)

World Cassowary Day

World Contraception Day

World Day for the Prevention of Adolescent Unwanted Pregnancies

World Day of Multiple Births

World Environmental Health Day

World Horizontal Directional Drilling Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Balaclava Day

Johnny Appleseed Day

Key Lime Cheesecake Day

National Better Breakfast Day

National Chimichanga Day

National Dumpling Day

National Key Lime Pie Day

Pancake Lovers Day

Independence & Related Days

National Day (a.k.a. 1st Revolution Day; Republic of Yemen; 1962)

New Zealand (Constituted a Dominion; 1907)

Petorio (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

4th & Last Thursday in September

Arthur's Day (Arthur Guinness) [4th Thursday]

National Fårikål Day (Norway) [Last Thursday]

National Fitness Day (Ireland) [4th Thursday]

National School Parent Group Day [4th Thursday]

National School Support Staff Day (Canada) [4th Thursday]

Remember Me Thursday [4th Thursday]

Thinking Thursday [4th Thursday of Each Month]

Thirsty Thursday [Every Thursday]

Three-Bean Thursday [Last Thursday of Each Month]

Three for Thursday [Every Thursday]

Thrift Store Thursday [Every Thursday]

Throw Away Thursday [Last Thursday of Each Month]

Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]

Thuringer Thursday [4th Thursday of Each Month]

World Maritime Day [Last Thursday]

World Trenchless Day [4th Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 26 (4th Full Week of September)

American Apple Week (thru 10.1) [From 9.26]

Festivals Beginning September 26, 2024

Alligator Festival (Luling, Louisiana) [thru 9.29]

Barnesville Pumpkin Festival (Barnesville, Ohio) [thru 9.29]

Barry Apple Festival (Barry, Illinois) [thru 9.29]

Black Walnut Festival (Stockton, Missouri) [thru 9.28]

Buffalo Roundup & Arts Festival (Custer, South Dakota) [thru 9.28]

Chicago Gourmet (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 9.29]

Comic Con Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa) [thru 9.29]

Dublin Theatre Festival (Dublin, Ireland) [thru 10.13]

Durham Agricultural Fair (Durham, Connecticut) [thru 9.29]

FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (Salt Lake City, Utah) [thru 9.28]

Festival of Tolerance [JFF Zagreb] (Zagreb, Croatia) [thru 9.29]

Four Flags Area Apple Festival (Niles, Michigan) [thru 9.29]

Gothenburg Book Fair (Gothenburg, Sweden) [thru 9.29]

Great Northwest Oktoberfest (Whitefish, Montana) [thru 9.28 & 10.3-5]

International Book Festival Budapest (Budapest, Hungary) [thru 9.29]

International Festival of Contemporary Music [Biennale Musica] (Venice, Italy) [thru 10.11]

Morganfield Corn Festival (Morganfield, Kentucky) [thru 9.28]

New Glarus Oktoberfest (New Glarus, Wisconsin) [thru 9.29]

Ohio Swiss Festival (Sugarcreek, Ohio) [thru 9.28]

Preston County Buckwheat Festival (Kingwood, West Virginia) [thru 9.29]

Reykjavik International Film Festival (Reykjavik, Iceland) [thru 10.6]

Sugar Cane Festival (New Iberia, Louisiana) [thru 9.29]

Taste of Long Beach (Long Beach, Mississippi)

Tokyo Game Show (Chiba, Japan) [thru 9.29]

Tulsa State Fair (Tulsa, Oklahoma) [thru 10.6]

Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival (Sonoma, California) [thru 9.29]

Vancouver International Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada) [thru 10.6]

World Chicken Festival (London, Kentucky) [thru 9.29]

Züri-Wiesn [Swiss Oktoberfest] (Zürich, Switzerland) [thru 10.19]

Feast Days

Azazel Goat Sacrifice (Everyday Wicca)

Bernice L. McFadden (Writerism)

Bob Staake (Artology)

Bureflex (Discordian)

Canadian Martyrs (Catholic Church in Canada)

Cobweb Pie Making (Shamanism)

Colman of Lann Elo (Christian; Saint)

Cosmas and Damian (Christian; Saint)

Cyprian and Justina (Christian; Martyrs)

Cyprian, Old Gods Patron of Sorcerers (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Eusebius (Christian; Saint)

Fairy Napmother (Muppetism)

Feast of Aphrodite (Pagan)

The Feast of the Martyrs of North America (Christian)

Feast of Zame ye Mebege (God of Narcotics; Gabon)

Festival of Venus Genetrix (Ancient Rome)

Franz Liszt Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Gordon Brewster (Artology)

Jane Smiley (Writerism)

John of Meda (Christian; Saint)

Mark Haddon (Writerism)

Mme. de Sévigné (Positivist; Saint)

Neldoracht (Celtic Book of Days)

Nilus the Younger (a.k.a. Nilus of Rossano; Christian; Saint)

Scrub the Poop Deck Day (Pastafarian)

Sébastien Leclerc (Artology)

Théodore Géricault (Artology)

Theseia (Ancient Greece) [until 9.29]

T.S. Eliot (Writerism)

Wilson Carlile (Anglican)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 269 [57 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Abbey Road, by The Beatles (Album; 1969)

Animal Cracker Circus (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1938)

Barber of Seville, by Giovanni Paisiello (Comic Opera; 1782)

The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series; 1962)

Book of Love, by The Monotones (Song; 1957)

The Boxtrolls (Animated Film; 2014)

The Brady Bunch (TV Series; 1969)

A Broken Leghorn (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)

Crocodile Dundee (Film; 1986)

The Crystal Gazer (Phantasies Cartoon; 1941)

Cupid (TV Series; 1998)

Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann (Poem; 1927)

Downtown Abbey (TV Series; 2010)

A Dream Walking (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1934)

El Terrible Toreador (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1929)

The Flintstones’ New Neighbors (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1980)

Gilligan’s Island (TV Series; 1964)

Good Charlotte, by Good Charlotte (Album; 2000)

Half-Pint Palomino, featuring Barney Bear (MGM Cartoon; 1953)

Here Comes the Sun, by The Beatles (Song; 1969)

Hypnotic Hick (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1953)

Jail Birds (Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog MGM Cartoon; 1931)

Jenny from the Block, by Jennifer Lopez (Song; 2002)

Knight Rider (TV Series; 1982)

Liberty Bell March, by John Philip Sousa (March; 1892)

Lumber Jack-Rabbit (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)

Miracle at St, Anna (Film; 2008)

Monkey Melodies (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1930)

The Music Makers, by Edward Elgar (Ode for Singer, Chorus & Orchestra; 1912)

Mythology Edith Hamilton (Mythology; 1942)

The Name of the Rose (Film; 1986)

Oliver! (Film; 1968)

Poker Face, by Lady Gaga (Song; 2008)

Prisoners of the Sun, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1949) [Tintin #14]

Purple Rain (Film; 1984)

Red Planet, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1949)

Riptide Rocky or Drips Adrift (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 112; 1961)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Film; 1975)

The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie (Novel; 1988)

September Song, by Kurt Weill (Song; 1938)

Shout at the Devil, by Mötley Crüe (Album; 1983)

Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner (Novel; 1968)

Stardust Memories (Film; 1980)

Straight Outta Lynwood, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2006)

Superman (Fleischer Cartoon; 1941) [#1]

Three Blind Mouseketeers (Disney Silly Symphonies Cartoon; 1936)

Under the Tuscan Sun (Film; 2003)

The Unicorn (TV Series; 2019)

U2-3, by U2 (EP; 979)

Walls and Bridges, by John Lennon (Album; 1974)

West Side Story (Broadway Musical; 1957)

The Wizard Biz or Bullwinkle Lays an Egg (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 111; 1961)

You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling, recorded by The Righteous Brothers (Song; 1964)

Today’s Name Days

Cosima, Damian, Eugenia, Kosmas (Austria)

Damir, Damjan, Gideon, Kuzma (Croatia)

Andrea (Czech Republic)

Adolph (Denmark)

Valve, Valvi, Velve, Vilve, Vilvi (Estonia)

Kuisma (Finland)

Côme, Damien (France)

Cosima, Damian, Kosmas (Germany)

Jusztina, Pál (Hungary)

Cosma, Damiano, Nilo (Italy)

Egmonts, Gundars, Knuts, Kurts (Latvia)

Gražina, Justė, Justina, Kipras, Vydenis (Lithuania)

Einar, Endre (Norway)

Cyprian, Euzebiusz, Justyna, Łękomir (Poland)

Edita (Slovakia)

Cosme, Damián (Spain)

Einar, Enar (Sweden)

Grazina, Juste, Justina, Kipras, Vydenis (Ukraine)

Newton, Renata, Renault, Rene, Renee, Renny (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 270 of 2024; 96 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of Week 39 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 26 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 24 (Guy-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 23 Elul 5784

Islamic: 22 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 30 Gold; Lastday [30 of 30]

Julian: 13 September 2024

Moon: 32%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 18 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Sterne]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 5 of 90)

Week: 4th Full Week of September

Zodiac: Libra (Day 4 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 9.26

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Mozambique)

Bandaranaike Day (Sri Lanka)

Ceremony of the Dead (Khmer Republic)

Cheval Day (Horse Day; French Republic)

Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day (Australia)

Cordyceps Pandemic Day (The Last of Us)

Dive Bomb Day

Dominion Day (New Zealand)

European Day of Languages (EU)

Feast of Lamps (India)

Federal Trade Commission Day

Flag Day (Ecuador)

Fortnite Day

Ghatasthapana (Nepal)

Gilligan's Island Day

Grand Magal de Touba (Senegal)

Human Resource Professional Day

IgA Nephropathy (IgAN) Awareness Day

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (UN)

International Happiness at Work Day

International Tool Day

The Last of Us Day (a.k.a. Outbreak Day)

Lumberjack Day (a.k.a. Talk Like a Lumberjack Day, Eat Like a Lumberjack Day, Attack Wooden Objects Like a Lumberjack Day) [also Last Friday of Last Full Weekend]

Matchbook Day

Mesothelioma Awareness Day

Mid-Autumn Day (Scottish Highlands)

National Alpaca Day

National Amanda Day

National Black Men Day

National Compliance Officer Day

National Day of Praise and Worship

National Family Day

National Good Neighbor Day

National GORDIEday

National Got Checked Day

National Hari Day

National Law Enforcement Suicide Awareness Day

National Manufacturing Day (UK)

National PRIOR Tactile Pre-Baille Learning Day

National Ranboo Day

National Robot Day

National Situational Awareness Day

National Statistics Day (Indonesia)

NICU Remembrance Day

Old Holy Rood Day

Pearl Thusi Day

Revolution Day (Yemen)

Search For Your Baseball Cards Again Day

Shamu the Whale Day

Sharpfight Meadow Dragon Fight Day (Suffolk, UK)

Stanislav Petrov Day

Today's Awesome Because You Totally Don't Have To Bathe Day

United States Postal Service Day

Winnie Mandela Day (South Africa)

World Cassowary Day

World Contraception Day

World Day for the Prevention of Adolescent Unwanted Pregnancies

World Day of Multiple Births

World Environmental Health Day

World Horizontal Directional Drilling Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Balaclava Day

Johnny Appleseed Day

Key Lime Cheesecake Day

National Better Breakfast Day

National Chimichanga Day

National Dumpling Day

National Key Lime Pie Day

Pancake Lovers Day

Independence & Related Days

National Day (a.k.a. 1st Revolution Day; Republic of Yemen; 1962)

New Zealand (Constituted a Dominion; 1907)

Petorio (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

4th & Last Thursday in September

Arthur's Day (Arthur Guinness) [4th Thursday]

National Fårikål Day (Norway) [Last Thursday]

National Fitness Day (Ireland) [4th Thursday]

National School Parent Group Day [4th Thursday]

National School Support Staff Day (Canada) [4th Thursday]

Remember Me Thursday [4th Thursday]

Thinking Thursday [4th Thursday of Each Month]

Thirsty Thursday [Every Thursday]

Three-Bean Thursday [Last Thursday of Each Month]

Three for Thursday [Every Thursday]

Thrift Store Thursday [Every Thursday]

Throw Away Thursday [Last Thursday of Each Month]

Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]

Thuringer Thursday [4th Thursday of Each Month]

World Maritime Day [Last Thursday]

World Trenchless Day [4th Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 26 (4th Full Week of September)

American Apple Week (thru 10.1) [From 9.26]

Festivals Beginning September 26, 2024

Alligator Festival (Luling, Louisiana) [thru 9.29]

Barnesville Pumpkin Festival (Barnesville, Ohio) [thru 9.29]

Barry Apple Festival (Barry, Illinois) [thru 9.29]

Black Walnut Festival (Stockton, Missouri) [thru 9.28]

Buffalo Roundup & Arts Festival (Custer, South Dakota) [thru 9.28]

Chicago Gourmet (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 9.29]

Comic Con Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa) [thru 9.29]

Dublin Theatre Festival (Dublin, Ireland) [thru 10.13]

Durham Agricultural Fair (Durham, Connecticut) [thru 9.29]

FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (Salt Lake City, Utah) [thru 9.28]

Festival of Tolerance [JFF Zagreb] (Zagreb, Croatia) [thru 9.29]

Four Flags Area Apple Festival (Niles, Michigan) [thru 9.29]

Gothenburg Book Fair (Gothenburg, Sweden) [thru 9.29]

Great Northwest Oktoberfest (Whitefish, Montana) [thru 9.28 & 10.3-5]

International Book Festival Budapest (Budapest, Hungary) [thru 9.29]

International Festival of Contemporary Music [Biennale Musica] (Venice, Italy) [thru 10.11]

Morganfield Corn Festival (Morganfield, Kentucky) [thru 9.28]

New Glarus Oktoberfest (New Glarus, Wisconsin) [thru 9.29]

Ohio Swiss Festival (Sugarcreek, Ohio) [thru 9.28]

Preston County Buckwheat Festival (Kingwood, West Virginia) [thru 9.29]

Reykjavik International Film Festival (Reykjavik, Iceland) [thru 10.6]

Sugar Cane Festival (New Iberia, Louisiana) [thru 9.29]

Taste of Long Beach (Long Beach, Mississippi)

Tokyo Game Show (Chiba, Japan) [thru 9.29]

Tulsa State Fair (Tulsa, Oklahoma) [thru 10.6]

Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival (Sonoma, California) [thru 9.29]

Vancouver International Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada) [thru 10.6]

World Chicken Festival (London, Kentucky) [thru 9.29]

Züri-Wiesn [Swiss Oktoberfest] (Zürich, Switzerland) [thru 10.19]

Feast Days

Azazel Goat Sacrifice (Everyday Wicca)

Bernice L. McFadden (Writerism)

Bob Staake (Artology)

Bureflex (Discordian)

Canadian Martyrs (Catholic Church in Canada)

Cobweb Pie Making (Shamanism)

Colman of Lann Elo (Christian; Saint)

Cosmas and Damian (Christian; Saint)

Cyprian and Justina (Christian; Martyrs)

Cyprian, Old Gods Patron of Sorcerers (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Eusebius (Christian; Saint)

Fairy Napmother (Muppetism)

Feast of Aphrodite (Pagan)

The Feast of the Martyrs of North America (Christian)

Feast of Zame ye Mebege (God of Narcotics; Gabon)

Festival of Venus Genetrix (Ancient Rome)

Franz Liszt Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Gordon Brewster (Artology)

Jane Smiley (Writerism)

John of Meda (Christian; Saint)

Mark Haddon (Writerism)

Mme. de Sévigné (Positivist; Saint)

Neldoracht (Celtic Book of Days)

Nilus the Younger (a.k.a. Nilus of Rossano; Christian; Saint)

Scrub the Poop Deck Day (Pastafarian)

Sébastien Leclerc (Artology)

Théodore Géricault (Artology)

Theseia (Ancient Greece) [until 9.29]

T.S. Eliot (Writerism)

Wilson Carlile (Anglican)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 269 [57 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Abbey Road, by The Beatles (Album; 1969)

Animal Cracker Circus (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1938)

Barber of Seville, by Giovanni Paisiello (Comic Opera; 1782)

The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series; 1962)

Book of Love, by The Monotones (Song; 1957)

The Boxtrolls (Animated Film; 2014)

The Brady Bunch (TV Series; 1969)

A Broken Leghorn (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)

Crocodile Dundee (Film; 1986)

The Crystal Gazer (Phantasies Cartoon; 1941)

Cupid (TV Series; 1998)

Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann (Poem; 1927)

Downtown Abbey (TV Series; 2010)

A Dream Walking (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1934)

El Terrible Toreador (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1929)

The Flintstones’ New Neighbors (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1980)

Gilligan’s Island (TV Series; 1964)

Good Charlotte, by Good Charlotte (Album; 2000)

Half-Pint Palomino, featuring Barney Bear (MGM Cartoon; 1953)

Here Comes the Sun, by The Beatles (Song; 1969)

Hypnotic Hick (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1953)

Jail Birds (Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog MGM Cartoon; 1931)

Jenny from the Block, by Jennifer Lopez (Song; 2002)

Knight Rider (TV Series; 1982)

Liberty Bell March, by John Philip Sousa (March; 1892)

Lumber Jack-Rabbit (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)

Miracle at St, Anna (Film; 2008)

Monkey Melodies (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1930)

The Music Makers, by Edward Elgar (Ode for Singer, Chorus & Orchestra; 1912)

Mythology Edith Hamilton (Mythology; 1942)

The Name of the Rose (Film; 1986)

Oliver! (Film; 1968)

Poker Face, by Lady Gaga (Song; 2008)

Prisoners of the Sun, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1949) [Tintin #14]

Purple Rain (Film; 1984)

Red Planet, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1949)

Riptide Rocky or Drips Adrift (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 112; 1961)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Film; 1975)

The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie (Novel; 1988)

September Song, by Kurt Weill (Song; 1938)

Shout at the Devil, by Mötley Crüe (Album; 1983)

Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner (Novel; 1968)

Stardust Memories (Film; 1980)

Straight Outta Lynwood, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2006)

Superman (Fleischer Cartoon; 1941) [#1]

Three Blind Mouseketeers (Disney Silly Symphonies Cartoon; 1936)

Under the Tuscan Sun (Film; 2003)

The Unicorn (TV Series; 2019)

U2-3, by U2 (EP; 979)

Walls and Bridges, by John Lennon (Album; 1974)

West Side Story (Broadway Musical; 1957)

The Wizard Biz or Bullwinkle Lays an Egg (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 111; 1961)

You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling, recorded by The Righteous Brothers (Song; 1964)

Today’s Name Days

Cosima, Damian, Eugenia, Kosmas (Austria)

Damir, Damjan, Gideon, Kuzma (Croatia)

Andrea (Czech Republic)

Adolph (Denmark)

Valve, Valvi, Velve, Vilve, Vilvi (Estonia)

Kuisma (Finland)

Côme, Damien (France)

Cosima, Damian, Kosmas (Germany)

Jusztina, Pál (Hungary)

Cosma, Damiano, Nilo (Italy)

Egmonts, Gundars, Knuts, Kurts (Latvia)

Gražina, Justė, Justina, Kipras, Vydenis (Lithuania)

Einar, Endre (Norway)

Cyprian, Euzebiusz, Justyna, Łękomir (Poland)

Edita (Slovakia)

Cosme, Damián (Spain)

Einar, Enar (Sweden)

Grazina, Juste, Justina, Kipras, Vydenis (Ukraine)

Newton, Renata, Renault, Rene, Renee, Renny (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 270 of 2024; 96 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of Week 39 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 26 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 24 (Guy-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 23 Elul 5784

Islamic: 22 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 30 Gold; Lastday [30 of 30]

Julian: 13 September 2024

Moon: 32%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 18 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Sterne]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 5 of 90)

Week: 4th Full Week of September

Zodiac: Libra (Day 4 of 30)

[opticandmasturbation]

The memoir LOVE ME MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD: Stories about belonging by the late Mira Furlan, the Yugoslav-born star of Babylon 5 and Lost, has been published for the first time in English. Already one of the bestselling books in 2022 in Croatia and Serbia, the autobiographical work tells the story of Furlan’s remarkable life and creatively acclaimed career—along with the poignant and terrifying account of how her principled stand against the ethnic carnage that tore Yugoslavia apart in 1991 led her to leave the country with her husband, the director Goran Gajic.

Before leaving, Furlan wrote “A letter to my co-citizens,” considered by many to be one of the most powerful anti-war essays of the last century and a historic document of the situation of an artist in a war. It was published in the newspapers on both warring sides of the conflict.

In that piece, Furlan wrote, “I know and I feel that it is my duty, the duty of our profession, to build bridges. To never give up on cooperation and community. Not the national community. The professional community. The human community. And even when things are at their very worst, as they are now, we must insist to our last breath on building and sustaining bonds between people. This is how we pledge to the future. And one day it will come.”

A fierce media campaign against her continued, leading to her being fired by the Croatian National Theatre. Her main “sin” was starring at the Belgrade International Theater Festival, where the antiwar production of “Theatrical Illusions” (Corneille) was chosen to be in the main competition of the festival. (She had been performing the play for a year prior to the outbreak of the war.)

Furlan begins her book with the history of her family in Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists. Part Jewish, part Croatian, Furlan grew up never feeling the strong pull of ethnic nationalism that lurked beneath the surface of the communist society. Born in 1955 in Zagreb and recognized early on for her extraordinary talent, Furlan achieved fame as a star of film, TV, and the stage across all of Yugoslavia by the late seventies.

Furlan and Gajic emigrated to the United States, settling in New York City and starting a hard immigrant life. After a rough adjustment, Furlan was cast in Babylon 5, the cult science fiction television series. She later appeared in Lost and many other television shows and stage productions in Los Angeles.

Furlan explains that she conceived the book as a letter to her son, saying, “He is the one to whom I want to tell this story: the story of his parents and their tortured country, the story of a life that had been torn apart by uncontrollable forces, the story of a continual search for identity, purpose and direction in difficult circumstances, the story of emigrating to a foreign place, of lives being torn into pieces, of fragile nature of friendship and love, of heartbreaking losses, of new beginnings, of expectations and disappointments, of America through a lens of a foreigner, of a woman’s experience in the acting profession practiced on two continents, of the fleeting nature of fame.”

She then remarks, “And while I’ve been trying to answer these unanswerable questions, toiling over words in a language that is not mine (although I audaciously pretend it is), something very strange has happened: you have grown up. Not only that: America has become a different country, a country ominously similar to the place we once left in horror and despair. There is no doubt anymore that the forces that chased us out of our own homes have won a global victory. We fought those forces once. Now we feel tired. We are exhausted by repetition.”

And, strangely enough, this book is becoming a different book. It is no longer a book of memories of a distant place and a distant time. It is becoming something very different: a plea to America and the world.

—amazon

[classicalmusicdaily]

During his studies, he was awarded with the Rector’s Award in 2010 (for new project “DuLuM”), as well as with the Dean’s Award in 2012 (as an assistant conductor in the production of Bizet’s opera Carmen). In 2013 he conducted a performance of Stravinsky’s opera Le rossingol. He continue to collaborate with the Academy of Music in Zagreb from 2016 on, as an Assistant professor (Conducting studies and Sight reading), as well as a conductor of the new production of Massenet’s opera Cendrillon in March 2020. Since 2013 he was a member of the team at Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, firstly as a Répétiteur, later as a Studienleiter. As an assistant conductor, he made 10 productions for the theater: Les vêpres siciliennes, Don Carlo, Madama Butterfly, Turandot and Gurre-Lieder, just to name a few. He conducted performances of operas such as Don Pasquale, Mimi and Equinox. From September 2019, he is a member of Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where he had his german debut in March 2021. He is a conductor and an artistic director for three ensembles: Vocal baroque ensemble Projekt Lazarus (with concerts in Rome, Vienna, Venice, Varaždin, Zadar and many more), Chamber opera company “Opera bb” (with two premieres: Die Lustige Witwe in 2017 and Die Fledermaus in 2019) and Chamber ensemble “Col legno” (with contemporary repertoire performed at many festivals in Zagreb, Cres and Rovinj). Hello, dear Darijan and welcome in our Conductors of the future rubric! We are very happy to have the chance to get to know you better and to talk with you about your path & the beautiful world of opera. First of all, please, tell us about how everything started for you, about your musical journey. Dear OperaCharm Team, it is a great pleasure having this opportunity to talk with you all present myself and my work to a wider audience. I’ve been living with music since very early age. My older sister is a concert pianist and I had often been present while she’d practiced at home and my father always mention that I’ve been humming with her and sometimes even correcting some mistakes even before I started to play piano myself – so, there was a conductor somewhere inside even then I’ve started to work with my first piano teacher around my 7th birthday in my small hometown Novska (Croatia) and piano is always near me and I think it will be my whole life the basis of my musicianship, but with time I’ve realized that I like to make music with my friends and colleagues more and more… In that sense, I’ve gathered a few friends and started my own choir during my high school. After graduation in both piano and music theory, I moved to Zagreb, where I studied conducting and eventually got my MA Diploma in 2014. In 2011 you started your professional career as an assistant conductor in the production of Bizet’s Carmen, how was it for you? What is it like to have the chance, as a young conductor, to assist & be a part of the musical creation process? Except for living with classical music, mostly repertoire for piano solo in my youth, I’ve always been interested in wide range of music, going from arrangements for all kinds of ensembles (from chamber choir to symphonic orchestra) to even playing pop music in a few different groups. Somehow, opera as a form got to my attention quite late, i.e. during my studies in Zagreb. That was really the so-called “A-ha moment” when I felt really like I got “infused” with some kind of a drug I could never get rid of. All joking aside, that was really a great pleasure to assist my professor at the time and get the chance to be included in all stops on the way of making an opera production – from the very first coaching and lessons, learning the roles with singers to conducting staging rehearsals with soloists and full chorus. That experience was and still is crucial for all projects that came later. I’ve had an opportunity to find a way of giving my best working patiently with singers on all needed skills within a goal of

performing his/her best, from mastering most of languages of operatic repertoire to sing other parts, that still makes me happy to this very day. reposted from https://opera-charm.com/

[dance-world]

Giovanni Messeri - Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb - photo by Peter Remeník

[kingstead]

1 June 2023 - Last look around Zagreb as we’re off tomorrow. We’re heading north with the aim of getting to Berlin for a Sparks gig on the 18th. This afternoon the Botanical Garden and a check on trains. In the evening we saw Leda, a play. In Croatian so we went really for the opportunity to visit the national theatre and immerse ourselves in the language. Finished with ice cream elsewhere. Nice end to our Zagreb visit. Next, Graz, Austria.

[lamilanomagazine]

Emilia Romagna: Si conclude "Come devi immaginarmi" dedicato a Pier Paolo Pasolini

Emilia Romagna: Si conclude "Come devi immaginarmi" dedicato a Pier Paolo Pasolini. Come devi immaginarmi è un progetto dedicato a Pier Paolo Pasolini, ideato da Valter Malosti insieme al critico d’arte, scrittore e accademico Giovanni Agosti, che si inscrive nelle celebrazioni per il centenario della nascita dell’autore (Bologna, 1922). Il titolo è tratto dalla sezione Gennariello in "Lettere luterane", raccolta di saggi uscita postuma, l'anno dopo la morte di Pasolini. Gennariello è un trattato di pedagogia sui generis in cui ci sono, tra l'altro, pagine bellissime su Bologna e gli anni giovanili del poeta. La ricerca parte proprio da questo: come le nuove generazioni "immaginano" Pier Paolo Pasolini? Pasolini è tra i pochi autori del Novecento di cui i più giovani sanno ancora che è esistito: non è stato travolto dall’eclisse di conoscenza che ha portato alla sparizione di un gran numero di voci. Questa sopravvivenza è dovuta – in gran parte – a una leggenda biografica, che ha permesso d’includere il poeta in un pantheon, ristretto e transgenerazionale, che annovera artisti, musicisti, scrittori. Il progetto di ERT aspira a condurre un confronto diretto con l’opera di Pasolini, sfuggendo alle più facili e corrive mitologie del maledettismo. Per la prima volta sono state presentate sulle scene, in una sola stagione, contemporaneamente, l’intero corpus dei testi teatrali che Pasolini ha scritto, pur in alcuni casi rielaborandoli anni dopo, in un ristretto giro di mesi, nella primavera del 1966. I sei spettacoli sono stati affidati, quanto alla regia, soprattutto a giovani registe e registi, mentre gli attori coinvolti non hanno limiti anagrafici. Si è partiti da Calderón, diretto dal regista Premio Ubu Fabio Condemi, che ha incontrato nuovamente le parole di Pier Paolo Pasolini. Lo spettacolo è una delle 9 coproduzioni internazionali prodotte nell’alveo della rete europea PROSPERO Extended Theatre di cui ERT è partner insieme a Théâtre De Liège, Schaubühne (Berlino), Odéon-Théâtre de L’Europe (Parigi), Teatro São Luiz (Lisbona), Göteborgs Stadsteater (Svezia), Croatian National Theatre of Zagreb, Teatros Del Canal (Madrid), Teatr Powszechny (Varsavia) e con la collaborazione del canale culturale| ARTE (Francia) per la promozione digitale. Il progetto è proseguito con Pilade diretto da Giorgina Pi e con Porcile nella versione di Michela Lucenti e il suo Balletto Civile, in una collaborazione inedita con Nanni Garella e i suoi preziosi attori del progetto Arte e Salute. Si arriva ora alle ultime tre tragedie: il parigino Stanislas Nordey, tra i maggiori registi e pedagoghi europei, nonché direttore del Teatro Nazionale di Strasburgo, rilegge Bestia da stile, che Pasolini stesso definì la sua “autobiografia”, identificando nella figura di Jan Palach il suo alter ego, condividendo con il ragazzo del dramma ideali, vita, resistenza, spirito politico e rivoluzionario. Nordey guida in questo progetto gli allievi attori della Scuola Iolanda Gazzerro di ERT. Federica Roselllini e Gabriele Portoghese lavorano su Orgia: questa creazione prosegue idealmente il lavoro di ricerca che ha preso avvio al Centro Teatrale Santacristina nell’estate 2021. Le parole di Pasolini, nella voce di due giovani e già affermati interpreti della scena, risultano nuove e sorprendenti, restituendo la forza visionaria di questo ruvido apologo in versi ma anche la sua concretezza. A chiudere il cerchio è Affabulazione: Marco Lorenzi, che lo dirige, convoca gli archetipi della famiglia di oggi attorno alle ombre delle vicende di Edipo re, in quella che lo stesso Pasolini definì una «tragedia che finisce ma non comincia». È lo sguardo di una nuova gioventù dunque, a fornire una risposta all’attualità inesausta di una lezione etica e politica, che ha segnato più di una generazione. Il carattere del progetto si lega strettamente alla preoccupazione pedagogica di Pasolini, che informa la sua intera attività, dalla scuoletta di Versuta, creata all’indomani della guerra, fino alle lettere a Gennariello, poco prima della morte: l’ossessione per la perdita e la necessità di tenere in vita la memoria e la tradizione (“sono una forza del passato”). Questo ambizioso progetto rappresenta una sfida nel paesaggio della cultura italiana di oggi: una sfida sui contenuti e sulla lingua, anche per le dimensioni, così fuori misura rispetto ai formati correnti. Programma di maggio:  11 -14 maggio 2023 BOLOGNA / Teatro delle Moline Orgia a cura di Federica Rosellini e Gabriele Portoghese 18 - 21 maggio 2023 BOLOGNA / Sala Leo de Berardinis Affabulazione regia di Marco Lorenzi 25 – 28 maggio 2023 MODENA / Teatro Storchi Bestia da stile regia di Stanislas Nordey... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[suetravelblog]

Madame Butterfly Croatian National Theatre Zagreb

Madame Butterfly Croatian National Theatre Zagreb

[lovelyballetandmore]

Mario Diligente | Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb