| Tena Stivicic - The Two of Us |
| TWO OF US
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 3f+1m YEAR OF ORIGIN: 2002 PRODUCTIONS: Atelje 212, Belgrade (directed by Snježana Banovic, 2003) (see page about this production) Croatian National Theatre Zagreb – Habunek Stage (directed by Tea Gjergjizi Agejev, 2003) Croatian Radio (directed by Stephanie Jamnicky, 2003) TRANSLATIONS: English (Two of Us, translated by Tena Stivicic and Selma Dimitrijevi?) SUMMARY: Anja and Lena are two young girls from Zagreb. Their hometown is a capital much like many European capitals. Only smaller. Much smaller. And such is the mentality of its inhabitants. Anja’s and Lena’s life resembles the image we encounter in women’s and girl’s magazines – it is colourful and highly emancipated. Yet, this is no more than a newly acquired façade. Underneath, one finds the chaos of a post-war society, a confusing mixture of transition and consumerism where one can hardly find any kind of stability, and where emotional relations are the last thing on which one can rely. Anja and Lena find themselves in a bizarre ménage-a-trois with Emil, a man who is father to one of them and lover to the other. At first, boosted by the additional manipulations of Lena’s mother, it seems as if the girls are breaking taboos and having fun along the way, but the game slowly gets out of hand and becomes fatal. |