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Ivan Salečić: Lion House
26.07.2022..21:30 - 23:00
Festival Drama Ensemble
Ivan Salečić: Lion House
subtitled in English
Directed by: Aida Bukvić
Dramaturge and adaptation: Marijana Fumić
Set design: Ivo Knezović
Costume design: Mirjana Zagorec
Lighting designer: Martin Šatović
Composer: Maro Market
Stage movement: Blaženka Kovač-Carić
Speech advisor: Maro Martinović
Assistant director: Antonela Tošić
Assistant set designer and painting works: Pietro Boban
Sculpture works: Timo Škrlec
Stage manager: Roko Grbin
Contemporaries:
Ivan: Amar Bukvić
Vanja: Iva Kraljević
Laima: Jadranka Đokić
Šeh: Dražen Šivak
Nikša: Branimir Vidić – Flika
Professor: Doris Šarić-Kukuljica
Baroque:
Dživo Franov Gundulić: Maro Martinović
Luce: Doris Šarić-Kukuljica
Šiško Dživov Gundulić: Romano Nikolić
Mato Dživov Gundulić: Marin Klišmanić
Nika Gundulić: Jadranka Đokić
Kate: Gloria Dubelj
Džive Gundulić: Veronika Mach
Premiered on 20 August 2021 at the 72nd Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
1 award win and 3 nominations:
– “Orlando” Award – for best achievement in the drama programme
– Lion House (play)
– Croatian Actor Awards – nominations
– Maro Martinović for the role of Dživo Gundulić in the best supporting actor category
– Gloria Dubelj for the role of Kate in the category of exceptional young drama artist under 28
– Marijana Fumić – dramaturge, for best premiering contemporary Croatian drama text or best dramatization, adaptation, dramaturgical transformation of text or a play’s dramaturgy
Lion House portrays Dubrovnik as a place where burdened history and burlesque transition clash. It is based on Ivan Salečić’s debut novel ‘Lion House’, in which the author intertwines two stories about Dubrovnik’s present and past, focusing on the Gundulić family history. Salečić created a unique novel in which fiction and faction coexist and our ideas about the glorious past are broken against the harsh reality of everyday life. The present-day bitter-humorous complications surrounding the purchase and restoration of an apartment in the historic city core are complemented with an interesting and engaging history of Dubrovnik, above which looms the grim fate of the Great Earthquake.
Photo (c) Marko Ercegović
