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  Šušur Bol

date: Thursday, 30th June, 08:00 pm
location: Satiric Theatre Kerempuh, Ilica 31


Krok opera: Cimer fraj


The name Šušur Bol hides an amateur theatre that gathers an imposing number of actors, singers and dancers of all ages, and this Multimedia Travelling Artistic Group for Mental Hygiene, Physical Therapy and Fast Food is held together by ivica Jakšić Čokroć a.k.a. Puko, a lucid multimedia artist.

Active since 1988, they are especially proud of their trilogy of contemporary folk plays Gujin rode, Svi smo mi 'judi and Apokalipsa, where they have treated the subject of the announcing, central and finishing episodes of the New Testament. At first sight preoccupied with Jesus Christ, John the Baptist and Judas, his plays actually deal with everyday life and its social, economic and political background.

Puko and Šušur Bol use theatre as a place for social and artistic subversion; they toy with the theatrical ignorance of their fellow villagers, but are also critical towards theatre itself, their own ignorance and amateur uncertainties.

Krok opera: Cimer fraj is a comic farce that mocks the world around them, human weaknesses and flaws, above all the greed for money and the deviations that the tourist income brings, with everything that invokes the possible sale of one's soul to the Devil. This short but very decisive cross-section of domestic tourism, starting with the Slavija hotel in the ex-Yugoslavia, through the Croatia hotel in the independent Republic of Croatia , to the Europa hotel in the European Union, creates a whirlpool of ideologems, mythologems, archetypes of human conduct and ambitions.

The name, krok, comes from the term for a belt used by fishermen to pull nets out of the water, whilst also combining the words kro for Croatia and rok for rock.

The original text in the Bol dialect compressing in it all significant world languages into an expert local version, and is concentrated into short and fast gags and its immediacy and bizarre leaps create a series of not at all benign effects. The playful group in modest but funny costumes convincingly use folk elements of other cultures, such as the Maori dance, and a comment on contemporary media impertinences is also to be found.

Šušur Bol speaks from the heart of a not at all cheap theatrical point of view and is the closing Eurokaz parable on the liveliness of theatre when in cooperation with microstructures, which this year's festival has tried to set loose and point out some traces of a new theatrical usefulness and social flexibility.

 


 
 
 
 
 
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