PREMIERE

Dubrovnik Summer Festival and Zagreb Youth Theatre

William Shakespeare: TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL

Subtitled in English

Director: Grzegorz Jarzyna

Dramaturge: Roman Pawlowski

Set designers: Grzegorz Jarzyna i Aleksandr Prowalinski

Costume designer: Anna Axer Fijalkowska

Light designers: Marino Frankola i Aleksandr Prowalinski

Video: Ivan Marušić-Klif

Stage movement: Šimun Stankov

Assistant Director: Patrik Sečen

Assistant costume designer: Marta Žegura

Translator and subtitle editor: Mirna Herman

Stage manager: Petra Prša

Olivia: Dado Ćosić

Orsino: Anđela Ramljak

Viola/Sebastian: Mia Melcher

Malvolio: Katarina Bistrović Darvaš

Feste: Petra Svrtan

Sir Toby Belch: Doris Šarić Kukuljica

Sir Andrew Aguecheek: Barbara Prpić

Maria: Mateo Videk

The maid: Toma Medvešek

Twelfth Night staged by Grzegorz Jarzyna is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous comedies read from the perspective of gender roles and identities of non-binary persons. In Jarzyna’s interpretation, the Renaissance comedy becomes a modernist piece about fluid sexual identities fighting for their right to exist in an old, patriarchal world. In order to survive, the protagonists engage in a risky game based on power and desire.

As Olivia, one of the protagonists, says, love is like a plague that strikes people unexpectedly, making them vulnerable. It cannot be satisfied nor requited. Between the lines of poetic love confessions lies a drama of those who are searching for a language to express their hidden self. Twelfth Night speaks about gender roles and their effect on human relationships. What is sexuality? Does a person’s sex define love and desire? To what extent are we capable of stepping out of the social roles that culture has formed in us?