Rainer Werner Fassbinder: KATZELMACHER NETA Programme Directed by: Lidija Dedović Visual concept: Petra Veber Assistant director: Mirko Radonjić, Mirjana Medojević Organization: Đorđe Radoičić Lighting: Dragan Sjekloća Sound: Rajko Radulović Cast: Miloš Pejović, Jovan Krivokapić, Petar Novaković, Momčilo Otašević, Karmen Bardak, Gorana Marković, Bojana Malinovska, Gordana Mićunović, Aleksandar Radulović, Ana Vučković, Nebojša Nenezić Production: Kraljevsko pozorište
Rainer Werner Fassbinder:
KATZELMACHER
NETA Programme
Directed by: Lidija Dedović
Visual concept: Petra Veber
Assistant director: Mirko Radonjić, Mirjana Medojević
Organization: Đorđe Radoičić
Lighting: Dragan Sjekloća
Sound: Rajko Radulović
Cast: Miloš Pejović, Jovan Krivokapić, Petar Novaković, Momčilo Otašević, Karmen Bardak, Gorana Marković, Bojana Malinovska, Gordana Mićunović, Aleksandar Radulović, Ana Vučković, Nebojša Nenezić
Production: Kraljevsko pozorište Zetski dom (ME)
Running time: 80′
About the play
“Love makes you older.”
R. W. Fassbinder
Katzelmacher was one of the first part of the central figure and the enfant terrible of the New German Film (Der Neue Deutsche Film), the brilliant Fassbinder. This work was the very springboard for his further creations. The text is addressing young people, the forgotten, and the outcast people with the brutalities, the lies, the constructions and phobias of the modern society. The cast of the play is consisted of a young, promising and very talented group of students of dramatic play in the class of Mr. Branislav Mićunović, director, professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Cetinje and current Montenegrin Minister of Culture, under the original director’s baton of Lidija Dedović. Fassbinder’s work has proved to be very engaged and very modern, while we can be easily identified with its numerous segments, regardless of the fact that the original story was going on in Germany in the 60s. It is about the harsh environment which condemns all those people who do not correspond to the objective social framework and norms, and their actions. All kinds of fallacies in the end lead to a brutal cruelty, which is always best reflected in the relationship between the stage characters that are wholly depicted by the actors. On stage, there is a real garage rock band playing, in which the actors are also musicians. Intimate, honest, full of energy and above all, attractive play.
About the director
Lidija Dedović, born in 1976, graduated English language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić in Montenegro, while in 2005 she graduated direction at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje with the play Closer in the class of Professors Egon Savin and Radmila Vojvodić. Even before her graduation play, she achieved notable success with the first full-length play Final Countdown by the text of Saviano Stanescu, produced by the Royal Theatre Zetski Dom. She also directed short forms, David Friedman’s play The Rapid pace, which was staged at the festival Grad Teatar in Budva in 2003, as well as the short film I don’t know. At the Montenegrin National Theatre she directed the play by the text of Valentina Krasnogorov Let’s have sex, which was for many years one of the most popular plays in the repertoire of this theatre. In 2010, she directed the play Antigone. For his latest project at the Royal Theatre Zetski Dom – Encyclopedia of the lost time by the text of Slobodan Šnajder she received the Best Director prize at the Biennale of Montenegrin Theatre. She also directed the award-winning children’s play The Good Tree for the City Theatre in Podgorica. The premiere of her last play, A Christmas Dream by the text of P. P. Njegoš, took place this year at the International Festival Kotor Art in Montenegro. As of the theatrical season 2011/12 onwards, she is the artistic director of the Royal Theatre Zetski Dom.
About the theatre
The Royal Theatre Zetski Dom founded in 1884, is the oldest theatre in Montenegro. Throughout history, wars and political pressures occasionally interrupted the work of the theatre, or changed its shape, reorganized it, but the theatre has been repeatedly renewed under the same name, as when first created – Zetski Dom. The Royal Theatre Zetski Dom is, apart from the Montenegrin National Theatre, the only state theatre in Montenegro. Its repertoire policy meets contemporary theatrical forms and expressions, with special emphasis on nurturing Montenegrin cultural heritage. Apart from being performed on all Montenegrin stages, performances are staged regularly on international stages and festivals as well. The theatre creates a constant dramatic, musical and publishing production, as well as ongoing educative programmes. The Royal Theatre Zetski Dom as of 2013 is a member of the international network NETA ( New European Theatre Action).
