As soon as the official celebration of Sudamja began in Split, the national drama festival – the 36th theater manifestation Marulićevi dani – was ceremonially concluded with the awarding of the best ones and the performance of the opera “Ero s onoga svijeta” produced by the Croatian National Theater Split.
An excellent program that presented the best achievements of contemporary drama and author’s theater lasted for ten days, and the “Marul” awards were awarded in a number of categories. With an expert evaluation jury under the chairmanship Zrinka Cvitešićconsisting of: Lada Kaštelan, Aida Bukvić, Romana Brajša and Luka Cerjanthe award for the best acting performance of the jury of Slobodna Dalmacija was also awarded.
Let’s remind you that during Marulić’s ten days, 13 plays were performed – it started with “The Lord Glembej”, ended with “Ero” – and in the meantime: “Father, daughter and the Holy Spirit”, “Mothers”, “Son, mother and father sit at the table and are silent for a long time”, “Acid/Acid”, “Disappearing”, “Sniper”, “Always be like a dragon”, “Wooden birds”, “Kamov, earthquake”, “The house is big, can’t se ona nosit”, “Matija” and “Sigura kuća”.
The jury of Slobodna Dalmacija, which consisted of three female readers: Jadranka Stančin Babić, Sanela Marković and Stella Švendaunanimously decided after watching the entire program to award the award for the best acting performance to a young actress, a 16-year-old girl.
– We unanimously chose the young actress Klara Fiolić from the play “Wooden Birds” (co-produced by the Croatian National Theater in Varaždin and the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb) for the Slobodna Dalmacija readers’ jury award for the best acting performance at the 36th Marulić days. We were impressed by the maturity of her role, the way she presented it fully, including the language aspect and dealing with the dialect. In fact, she charmed us already at the beginning, when she sang. Of all the top actresses and actors, she left the deepest impression on us – said Švenda, a reader of Slobodna Dalmacija, on behalf of the three-member jury.
In the play “Wooden Birds”, namely, the actress Klara Fiolić portrays the character of a smart sixteen-year-old girl who is looking for her place in the family under the burden of patriarchal inheritance, her father’s alcoholism and a broken, helpless mother who pushes Nadica (Klara Fiolić) along the same path, in the middle without life choices. The young actress Fiolić built her role during the play with an excellent performance, sometimes defiant in the attempt of ambitious plans towards the “city that whitens over the Balatin”, and in some situations exhausted due to the silent resistance that was reduced in the cage of rural entanglement. The actress performs the scenes in the factory without perspective naturally and convincingly. Klara Fiolić conveys Nadica’s song in the first and last part of the play with the strength and melancholy of her voice, which wails in her longing to escape from the cage in which she was suffocated, the audience notes. Because of everything they experienced, the members of the jury had no doubts as to whom they would give the highest score. The journalist of Slobodna Dalmacija presented the award to the director of the play “Wooden Birds”. Ivan Plazibatwho received her on Klara’s behalf since she was not present.
As for the other awardees, the play “The house is big, it can’t be carried” excelled in the production of the Marin Držić Theater from Dubrovnik, which was awarded for the play as a whole, dramaturgy, acting and scenography. Here is the entire list of awardees:
• Ivor Martinic – for the contemporary dramatic text of the play “Son, mother and father sit at the table and remain silent for a long time” (Zagreb Youth Theater)
• Dorotea Šušak and Romano Nikolic – for the dramaturgy of the play “The House is Big, It Can’t Be Carried” (Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik)
• Patrik Lazic – for the dramatization of the play Matija (Arterarij, Zagreb)
• “The house is big, you can’t carry it” – for the play as a whole (Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik)
• Ivica Buljan – for directing the play “Gospoda Glembajevi” (Ivan Vazov National Theatre, Sofia)
• Doris Šarić Kukuljica – for the best acting achievement (“Son, mother and father sit at the table and are silent for a long time”/Zagrebačko kazalište mladih; Matija/Arterarij, Zagreb)
• Mirej Stanić – for an acting achievement (“The house is big, it can’t be carried”/Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik)
• Zdravka Ivandija Kirigin – for an artistic achievement in the field of scenography: (“Wooden Birds”/Croatian National Theater in Varaždin and Croatian National Theater in Zagreb; “The house is big, it can’t be carried”/Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik)
A special place in the festival program this year was also occupied by the event “Ča – more – judi”, which, as before, took place in the House of Marko Marulić on Šolta. Its importance is manifested in the cultivation of the Čakavian word, as well as in the gathering of young authors. She won first place at this year’s event Dragica Anđelićstudent of the 3rd grade of the Split 3 Elementary School, with the work “ČA nan vridi”, who also delighted the audience at the Croatian National Theater with her eloquence.
He presented the awards Bozo Župićacting intendant of HNK Split and director of the festival, and the explanations were read by Zrinka Cvitešić, president of the Expert Jury. They ran the program Marija Šegvić and Pere Eranovićalso actors.
– This year’s Marulić days have once again shown how much the audience recognizes and appreciates domestic theatrical creativity. Split was once again a meeting place for artists, professionals and the public. This kind of interest confirms the importance of the festival on the national theater scene – said Župić, noting enough that the audience’s interest was great for every festival performance.
The festival has officially closed Željko Primorachead of the Administrative Department for Culture, Sports and Technical Culture of the Split-Dalmatia County.
– I am happy about the fact that this year’s Marulić days saw the largest number of works registered so far. It is especially pleasing to know that applications have also arrived from neighboring countries, and that in the largest number ever. This is recognition not only of this festival as an extremely strong drama festival, but also confirms the fact that Croatian authors are still extremely relevant both in their homeland and abroad. Split, as the center of this festival, can be proud of its heritage, its Renaissance and humanist culture and tradition, which gave birth to the great Marko Marulić. On these foundations, we continue the contemporary Marulić days, which we will continue to build year after year in order to make them the best ambassadors of Croatian culture – said Primorac.
