First slovene production
Opening night:
24th April 2009
25th April 2009
Translator Zdravko Duša
Director Aleksandar Popovski
Dramaturg Darja Dominkuš
Costume designer Jelena Proković
Set design Numen
Light designer Milan Podlogar
Music Foltin
Language consultant Tatjana Stanič
Cast:
Barbara Cerar - Little Sister, Alice, Snow White, Goldilocks, Thumbelina, Princess, Woman, Witch
Iva Babić - Big Sister
Katja Levstik - Mother, Mummy Bear
Igor Samobor - Doc., Frog, famous artist
Matevž Müller AGRFT - Sleepy, Hansel
Klemen Slakonja - Grumpy, Little Eagle, Eagle
Tina Vrbnjak - Baby Bear, Gretel, young fans
Valter Dragan - Daddy Bear, Hunter, patron
Boat For Dolls is Milena Marković’s third play. Marković is a young Serbian playwright and poet who, in the last decade, has won recognition in Serbia and throughout Europe.
The play suggestively depicts the life of an artist through references to various fairy tales and their characters. As a girl on the verge of adolescence, the heroine leaves home. Travelling through different stages of life, she takes on the identities of well-known fairy tale characters, from Alice, Snow White, Goldilocks and Thumbelina to the witch from Hansel and Gretel. She moves at the social margins, in the world of mimicry and petit-bourgeois manners, in seemingly artistic circles. Her life is not a fairy tale—it is not even especially nice—but painful life experiences only make her stronger in her artistic determination.