Director
Milena Marković
Boat for Dolls
Original title: Brod za lutke
First Slovenian production
Opening night
24th and 29th April 2009
Small Stage
Duration:
105 minutes
Creators
Cast
Little Sister, Alice, Snow White, Goldilocks, Thumbelina, Princess, Woman, Witch
Big Sister
Katja Levstik
Mother, Mummy Bear
Doc., Frog
Matevž Müller
Sleepy, Hansel
Klemen Slakonja
Grumpy, Eagle, Little Eagle
Baby Bear, Gretel
Daddy Bear, Hunter
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.
Awards
2010
Sterija Award for Best Production
Sterija Critics’ Round Table Award for Best Production
Foltin – Sterija Award for Music
Barbara Cerar – Prešeren Fund Award also for roles in Boat for Dolls
Barbara Cerar – Sterija Award for Best Actress
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Festivali
2010
55th Sterijino pozorje, Novi Sad, Serbia
2009
Maribor Theatre Festival