MAKE-BELIEVE – A LECTURE ON SUBSTITUTES

Sunday, July 7
Nikola Đurković Cultural Centre, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

MAKE-BELIEVE – A LECTURE ON SUBSTITUTES  
Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children (Montenegro)
Nikola Đurković Cultural Centre (Montenegro)
Prazan Prostor Drama Studio (Montenegro)
Duration: 45 min. | Age: 8+ 
*revue program

Direction and visual identity: Mirko Radonjić
Composer: Nina Perović 
Assistant director: Marija Backović 
Cast: Mirko Radonjić, Marija Backović, Nina Perović 

Make-believe – A Lecture on Substitutes is a lecture-performance intended for children and youth and is based on motifs from the animated film The Substitute by Dušan Vukotić. The film from 1961 was a satirical commentary on the social moments of the time. However, today, when direct experiences have vanished from our lives and substitutes have become a norm for everything but breathing, it appears to be devastatingly current. With our heads deep in social media, we have never been lonelier. Grasping the world and accepting it as normal is hard, but changing it is impossible, since that would mean; going against history. Still, an alternative must be found, and we are looking for it. Vukotić’s film serves as a basis and inspiration for a multimedia and interactive performance which speaks about ideas, loneliness, emotions, and imagination. Using performance and theatre signifies an insistence on sensory and tangible experiences and we convey the idea of creation as the ultimate substitute (ironically) which brings salvation from the substitute itself.

Mirko Radonjić