Last night in Konjic, as part of the “Heritage Theater 2023” event, with the support of the Foundation for Music, Fine and Performing Arts in Sarajevo and the City of Konjic, starting at 7:30 p.m., was performed the play “Fešta” by the “Exit” Theater from Zagreb.
Performed play “Fešta”
The comedy “Fešta” is the author’s project of Josipa Anković and Josip Ledina, written during the fifth year of study at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb.
“We wrote the text ourselves, directed it ourselves and performed the play “Fešta” ourselves, which was our exam in the fifth year. The day after the exam, at the academy, people from the profession came from Zagreb, they saw the play, the director of the Exit Theater, Matko Raguž, came and decided that he wanted to include the play in the repertoire of the theater” – said Ledina, adding that the play “Fešta ” presented the relationship between a young married couple in a humorous but also realistic way.
In the play, Josipa and Josip are a young, well-to-do couple, and for their wedding anniversary they organized the biggest party in town. The guests of that festival are the spectators who, just by entering the theater, become their friends, relatives, godfathers, acquaintances or business partners, because the audience didn’t just come to watch this play, they came to participate in it. The red carpet is rolled out, the cameras are on, and everyone becomes part of their new family album.
Recalling the beginnings of their love, Josip and Josip take us through a short history of their relationship, full of ups and downs. They don’t want to hide anything, they will share every detail of their relationship without any reservations. Telling their story, they fall into the most different, but very recognizable traps of their life together, but they will set the biggest trap for each other right in front of us. By making fun of our love, marriage and gender relations, “Fešta” dissolves numerous stereotypes that we are often not even aware of, but it also directs its critical edge at the society that only recognizes the law of brothers and godfathers.
The play questions not only the relationship between the young married couple, but also the relationship between the actor and the audience. Constantly involving the audience in stage events, it skillfully balances on the border of illusion and reality and turns into a full-blooded event.
Recalling the beginnings of their love, Josip and Josip take us through a short history of their relationship, full of ups and downs. They don’t want to hide anything, they will share every detail of their relationship without any reservations. Telling their story, they fall into the most different, but very recognizable traps of their life together, but they will set the biggest trap for each other right in front of us. By making fun of our love, marriage and gender relations, “Fešta” dissolves numerous stereotypes that we are often not even aware of, but it also directs its critical edge at the society that only recognizes the law of brothers and godfathers.
The play questions not only the relationship between the young married couple, but also the relationship between the actor and the audience. Constantly involving the audience in stage events, it skillfully balances on the border of illusion and reality and turns into a full-blooded event.
The actor Ledina has visited the city of Konjic before, because his mother is originally from Konjic. Some of the series in which the young actor Ledina has acted so far are “Black and White World”, “Dar Mar”, he acted in the film “The Sixth Bus”, and he also played in plays in Kerempuh, Exit and Teatro ITD, the film “The Sixth Bus” and others.
The play “Fešta” was performed at the end of the “Heritage Theater 2023” project.
Text source: Radio Konjic, www.radiokonjic.ba, Fb profile Benjamin Mušinović
Photo source: Fb profile Benjamin Mušinović
