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AT BELEF Lepa Brena back among us
Lepa Brena prodžekt zapravo nije predstava o Breni, već predstava o svima koji su se na ovim prostorima identifikovali kao Jugosloveni The "Lepa Brena Project" isn’t actually a play about Brena, rather it is a play about all those people
If you missed her at Bitef, you can fix that error this summer at Kalemegdan Fortress, on the plateau near the Victor monument, on 5 th July at 9pm I t is rarely the case that the main character of a theatre play is someone who is still full of life and continuing their career, and it is even rarer for the main character to attend the premiere per- formance of a play about themselves. But that’s exactly how it was at Bitef 2019, when Lepa Brena watched from the darkness of the auditorium as the "Lepa Brena Project" was performed by four actress- es and one actor: Jovana Gavrilović, Tamara Krcuno- vić, Jasna Đuričić, Jelena Ilić and Vladimir Aleksić. The "Lepa Brena Project" isn’t actually a play about Brena, rather it is a play about all those people in these lands who identified themselves as Yugo- slavs. It is a play about lives and dreams that turned into a nightmare, and was then smashed to smith- ereens, just like the Socialist Federal Yugoslavia. And Lepa Brena was the biggest star of that Yugo- slavia, its symbol. That’s why the Lepa Brena Project wasn’t conceived as a biographical play, but rather something completely different: through the great- est showbiz heroine of Yugoslavia, it essentially tells the story of the com- plexity and inter-
in these lands who identified themselves as Yugoslavs
nal contradictions of the previous almost four decades in these lands, its socio-polit- ical transformations, pride and pain, dis- appointments and hopes, but also the story of ourselves. Speaking after seeing the play, Bre- na said that she was honoured that the epoch of one strong state had been por-
trayed in this way, and that the directors of the play had a good understanding of her, but also that the play was very emotional and touching for her per- sonally. And whether you’re a Yugo-nostalgic or not, and whether you listen to Lepa Brena or not, you have an opportunity to watch a great show, in an even better venue, under the Kalemegdan sky.
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