- stage: MKC, 25. May hall
селекција за награда БИШ 2022
National Theatre Bitola (MKD)
Director: Ivan Jercic
Duration: 65’
Language: Macedonian with English subtitle
Author: Ivan Viripaev
Cast: Viktorija Stepanovska Jankulovska, Nikola Stefanov
Costume designer: Marta Dojchinovska
Original music and music selection: Aleksandar Dimovski
Lightning: Nikola Gjeorgjievski
Makeup and hairstyle: Stefanija Stojchevska
Video materials: Marjan Gjeorgjievski
Video operator: Vladimir Perelovski
Guest in the video: Marjan Naumov
Photogrspher: Stisnijovski Photography
Production: National Theatre Bitola
Co-production: Center for culture – Bitola
How do you survive the present, how do you build your future, how do you forget your past? It is sometimes deeply and instinctively just, but sometimes brutally cruel, we write the books of our lives in an estranged and unexpected manner, seemingly without any emotion in an era that leaves us no other choice. We can learn most about this if we dive into our deepest thoughts and we openly talk about the things that occupy our thoughts.
Oxygen is actually a poetic piece accumulating rage, hope, emotions and thoughts of a whole generation of the eastern block; young people who grew up stranded in transition and kept on living in the wild capitalism as a result of that transition.
The play penetrates deep into the human desire to just live, through the human need and desire to breathe freely…to live a life full of love, happiness, empathy, solidarity as opposed to the reflection in the mirror that looks back at today’s people more and more.
„AN EXCITING AND PROVOCATIVE PLAY, WHICH THROUGH EXCEPTIONALLY INVENTIVE AND EMOTIONAL PLAYED ACTORS AND DIRECTED DRAMATIC SCENES IN ITS COMPLEX STRUCTURE ENCOURAGES A RE-EXAMINATION OF COMPLEX EXISTENTIAL ISSUES WITH A CRITICISM OF SOCIAL AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS.“