Zabok, Green Hall, Trg Dragutina Domjanića 2 at 20:00 – local partner Glokul, Zabok
In the light of daily-political perversions, the performance paraphernalia ‘Battle of Neretva’ is an adventure into the free territory of imagination.
Premiered in Zagreb at Lauba in January of the distant 2016, “Battle of Neretva,” subsequently performed at over twenty domestic and international festivals (Marulić Days, Perforations, CoFestival, Fiat, Akto, and others), happens always and now at the right moment in history and in the right place.
It directly speaks to the relativity of past and present victories because it is precisely because they happened that our current reality is possible. It is an imagined and real quest for the green valley of contemporaneity in the event-space instrument of a scene capable of contemplating everything.
What could have been if it had been different? – is the question that Boris Bakal as director, together with Leo Vukelić as performer, poses to their audience this time, knowing there is no correct/right answer.
The anti-spectacle ‘Battle of Neretva’ is a conversation between two artists attempting to reconcile their intertwined, tangled, and often conflicting destinies; it is a cross-section of historical and personal realities and fictions that transcend commonly accepted frameworks of the present. This supra-historical and meta-dramatic ‘Battle of Neretva’ unfolds as a suddenly uninterrupted and inconsistent stage dialogue between two people reflecting on concepts and offerings of happiness, emancipation, freedom, security, responsibility, and future.
Support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb – Office for Education, Culture and Sport
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