Capture Your Creative Journey
Document exhibitions, concerts, and your own artwork in one beautiful timeline.
Start Your JournalMoj muž (My husband)
Personal Reflection
Moj muž is unusual as a theatrical experience is its refusal of a protagonist. There is no single woman at the center, only the accumulating weight of many, each with her own brand of resignation or longing or dark humor. Jovana Tomić’s staging leans into this polyphonic quality, letting Sanja Marković and Jovana Belović move between voices without the expectation that we’ll choose a favorite. The humor is the sharpest tool. Bužarovska’s stories know how to make you laugh at something you’ll feel bad about later, the kind of laughter that arrives precisely because the truth would otherwise be unbearable. What lingers after the lights go up is less any single character than the shape their lives make together: a map of small erosions, social and private, that no one story could hold alone. Performed in the intimate Studio space, the production trusts proximity to do work that spectacle cannot. Two performers, the text, and very little else. That restraint is its own argument.
About This Artwork
Moj muž is a stage adaptation of the short story collection of the same name by Macedonian writer Rumena Bužarovska, published in 2014. Bužarovska — a lecturer in American literature at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje and one of ten most interesting young European writers selected by the London Book Fair jury in 2016 — writes in the tradition of the American short story: precise, unsentimental, and surgically close to ordinary life. The collection consists of eleven first-person stories told by different women, all of whom share one thing: a husband. Together they compose a gallery of female experience inside marriage — across class, age, and temperament — with particular attention to the quiet architectures of patriarchy. The stage adaptation at Scena Studio JDP is directed by Jovana Tomić, with Sanja Marković and Jovana Belović performing, and dramaturgy by Dimitrije Kokanov. What’s interesting: Bužarovska has noted that the title is deliberately designed to mislead — to evoke sentimental, confessional prose — when the work is anything but. The collection has been adapted for theater across the former Yugoslavia, Greece, and Hungary.
- Date experienced
Tags
Comments
Loading comments...