The play Our days
Fri, Feb 16
|Belgrade
Meet Radoslav Milenković, stage master from Belgrade. His monodrama "OUR DAYS", primarily based on the works of V. P. Dis and Radoj Domanović, traveled the world more than 1,800 times, from Zemun to Moscow, from Johannesburg to Budapest.
Vreme i mesto
Feb 16, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Belgrade, Dunavska 86, Belgrade 11000, Serbia
O događaju
Radoslav Milenković, actor and theater director from Belgrade, is the complete author of the monodrama OUR DAYS, which has been performed more than 1,800 times since its premiere on May 17, 1984 at the Festival of Monodrama and Pantomime in Zemun (GOLD COIN PUBLIC) until today, as on the stages of the former Yugoslavia and abroad (Petrograd, Moscow, Basel, Zurich, Baden-Baden, Malmö, Lund, Gothenburg, Halmstad, Stockholm, Norrkoping, Vasteros, Budapest, Eger, Johannesburg, Cape Town, etc.).
The text of the play was created by dramatizing the satirical poems of VP Dis (Our Days and Anthem) and the most significant short stories of the greatest Serbian satirist Radoj Domanović (1873-1908), who sharply, critically, mercilessly and wittily depicted the government of his time steeped in corruption and violence, as well as servile and obedient civil society. Although he was a chronicler of his time, Radoje Domanović outlined not only human relationships and characters in Serbian society and the specific historical situation, but also general human and social evil, which is universally recognized in every era.
Through the imaginary journey that the main character undertakes in an effort to return to his homeland after a long exile, he meets the representatives of the authorities and becomes a participant and witness to the destruction and ruin of all segments of society. And the main character experiences the most dramatic change when, in questioning national myths, he is faced with a devastating truth that cancels the idealized (and mythomaniacal) image of the land of his ancestors. Radoslav Milenkovic plays more than thirty characters in this play. The combination of a bravura verbal plan and strong physical expression, supported by pantomime, genre-based on various means of folk theater, farce, grotesque, commedia dell'arte and cabaret, created a performance that has been crowned with numerous awards in the previous thirty years, and which, with its modernity and fully corresponded with her contemporaries through engagement.