THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES

Friday, July 12
Summer Stage, 9 p.m. 

THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES  
Herceg Novi Theatre (Montenegro) 
Herceg Fest (Montenegro)
Duration: 80 min. | Age: 8+ 
*revue program 

Direction: Petar Pejaković
Dramaturgy: Đorđe Stanojlović  
Set design: Vojislav Vojo Kilibarda
Costume design: Jelena Vasiljević 
Cast: Dejan Đonović, Goran Slavić, Miloš Pejović, Slaviša Grubiša

The Emperor’s New Clothes was tailored through games. We dreamed about making a show about politics for children. This Andersen’s fairy tale was written, as most of his tales, both for children and adults. He never thought that there were things only for grownups, or only for children. He wrote for children about things “for grownups.” All these things for adults are also for children, including politics - the only issue is how to present them to children. The Emperor’s New Clothes therefore became a game with serious themes. The Emperor’s New Clothes don’t exist. The Emperor is nude. We all know that. We wanted to expose all these “adult” topics: power, subjects, politics, elections, programs, democracy, despotism, revolution… to expose the functioning mechanism. Yes, these things are often scary, sometimes funny, yet mainly farcical, just like in Andersen’s tales. And just like his tales often don’t have a happy ending, but instead offer hope, invitations, and solutions, here there is no final resolution - that is up to us. 

Petar Pejaković