Tonight, the 11th Festival of BiH Actors started in Konjic, which will last until September 30.
The organizer of the festival is the Konjic National University, under the auspices of the City of Konjic.
Eleventh Actor’s Festival BiH began tonight with ”Gideon’s knot” play
The festival started with the play “Gideon’s Knot” directed by Selma Alispahić, who also acted in the play with Helena Vuković. In this play, Gideon’s mother and the teacher open numerous questions about growing up young people, peer violence, education, looking for answers on how to contribute so that life does not become a daily struggle to untangle knots.
Director and actress Selma Alispahić, who has been a participant since the first Actor’s Festival, praised the Actor’s Festival in Konjic and believes that it is a unique festival in our country. After the play, she told radiokonjic.ba that directing this play was guided by the silence that reigns in our society regarding numerous topics that young people in our society face.
“I thought that silence should be broken every day, not only by making plays from time to time. I have been dealing with the topic of peer violence for a long time, and we must not abandon that topic, because it is hot. This play is also an attempt to empower young people who are at the center of the problem, to talk about it, and we help them as much as we can with this play, to tell them that we are here for them” – said Alispahić, adding that this play treats much more subtopic.
"It is a play about freedom of speech, about the right to be different, these are topics that begin and end in the two pillars of every young person's life, which are family and education, where we form a young person the most and where most problems are solved "- said Alispahić.
For a young actress Helena Vuković, working on this play represents a great experience.
“First of all, thanks to the opportunity to play with Selma Alispahić, I think it’s a great honor for every young actor. I had the opportunity to learn from her in the process of our rehearsals, from mini to big tips, and I gladly accepted each one and took it with me and often remember it when I’m doing something else. That is one side, and the other is the text itself, which offers the actor a lot of space to “swim” within himself, but also in his relationship to society, and I think that all together it was fruitful for me, as a young person” – Vuković said, who also participated in the Actor’s Festival as an acting student.
The play “Gideon’s Knot” won the audience award at two international theater festivals, at MESS and the Rijeka International Festival of Small Stages, and tonight’s performance was the 34th rerun. This performance is a co-production project of MESS, the Youth Theater and the Intermezzo association.
The official opening of the XI Festival of Actors of BiH will be held on Monday, September 2, and it will be opened by the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Croatian National Academy of Sciences, prof. Ph.D. Adnan Velagić, and on the same evening, the repertoire of the play “Women’s Conversations” performed by the Croatian National Theater Mostar.
