Last weekend, a few friends invited me to a festival of French-language theater that they organized. I was ecstatic, even though I don’t speak a word of French - good theater is hard to come by in this town, and these girls are so full of enthusiasm and love for what they do that I had to come by and see them.
I was in for a treat - 4 shows, 3 of them with subtitles(!), all by theater groups from ex-Yugoslav countries, 2 groups from Zagreb, one from Zadar and one from Novi Sad.
I have NO idea what the first show was about. Angels, bad opera singers, cheating fathers, births, and all hell breaks loose
The second show was the only let-down, I really didn’t enjoy it and the photos show it. I would be hard-pressed to select a single decent photo from that set. After that, though, the kids from Zagreb put on an AMAZING show. just a few actors, simple stage, and great actors.
They named it “The Flabby Queen” and it’s probably a parody of some other text, but I’m no theater buff. The only think I know is that I enjoyed it like no other show in a long time.
Finally, the last show, where (I’m told), a bunch of classmates kill their teacher and dance over her dead body for an hour and 15 minutes. They had no subtitles and a LOT of text, so I just watched them dance around and be awesome.
