Theatre Reviews
THE POETRY OF MASK
Dalibor Foretić, theatre critic
The play "Somebody has Killed the Play" performed by the group "Maska i Pokret" from Sarajevo reminds of the famous MESS research days.
SEARCHING THROUGH MOVEMENT AND MASK
Davor Koric, dramatist, film director
The festival moved from the deadlock it reached, thanks to the inventive and inspiring play "Somebody has Killed the Play", whose complete authors are Iva Kostović-Mandić and Petar Mandić.
UNANIMOUSLY – “MASKA I POKRET”
Velimir Stojanović, writer en theatre director
Award for the most thoughtful experiment: Iva Kostović – Mandić i Petar Mandić
FESTIVAL COMMITTEE ON SELECTION
Laslo Gerold, theatre critic and historian
The play ... has its consistent dramaturgical line of action, rhythmic development of stage events, poetic note, experience of human truth and a high degree of artistry.
“VEN” MAGAZINE AWARD
The traditional award "THREE GOLDEN STARS" this time went to the Theatre "Maska i Pokret" from Sarajevo for the play "SOMEBODY HAS KILLED THE PLAY".
AWARD OF THEATRE CRITICS, DRAMATURGS AND THEATRE SCHOLARS
The play "SOMEBODY HAS KILLED THE PLAY" by the "Maska i Pokret" theatre from Sarajevo was the most appropriate to the original intentions of the Festival and its most significant event.
Radio Sarajevo – THEATRE MASKA I POKRET
Branko Brđanin, theatre critic, dramaturg
The way how they use all stage means in Theatre "Maska i Pokret" returns them to that basic meaning they had from the very beginning of the theatre.
DISCLOSED DELUSION
Dubravko Bibanović, theatre director
Their path to success is only possible in a completely new space that will get their colour, their scent, just as it is necessary painstakingly to search for that kind of audience that will accept the sensibility that this theatre carries.
FAITH IN THEATER
Ljubica Ostojić, theatre critic, writer, dramaturg
We have yet to talk about them. These are only words for that white story which continues as it has moved into us with every movement we repeat within ourselves, following their play.
SOMEBODY HAS KILLED THE PLAY ON TV
Presenting theatrical creativity and contemporary stage expression in all its segments, TV Sarajevo has prepared a recording of the theatre play "Somebody has Killed the Play", by Iva Kostović-Mandić and Petar Mandić.
POETRY ON STAGE
TV recording of the theatre play "Somebody has Killed the Play". "The play with mask" is the subtitle of the performance, which explores the functions and possibilities of the mask and movement in theatre.
YOUTH AND PLAY, MASK AND MOVEMENT
Safet Plakalo, playwright, theatre critic
Iva Kostović and Petar Mandić performed on the festival stage with a big round of applause from the Jajce audience ... with the play “Somebody has Killed the Play”.
EXCITING THEATRE
Per Justesen, Het Parool
It’s only afterwards you realise with a shock that there are only two performers who are very quickly changing masks and costumes.
SURPRISING PLAY OF THE YUGOSLAVS
Hanny Alkema, De Volkskrant
Maska i Pokret for the second time this season in the Netherlands.
Interviews
WHAT IS UNDER THE MASK OF MASK
Enver Dizdar, SVIJET magazine
In the official competition of the oldest festival of small and experimental scenes in our country.
UNDER THE VEIL OF THE MASK
Marko Kovačević, dramaturg, theatre critic
Experiences of "Theatre in the Living room". We came to talk about their theatre, about work, about plans.
ENTHUSIASM ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH
Nada Rakić, theatre critic
We are talking with Petar Mandić and Iva Kostović-Mandić, the founders of the theatre workshop "Maska i Pokret", which has been researching the function of the mask in theatre for already four years. ...
THE TWO OF THEM – THE WHOLE THEATER
Marko Kovačević, dramaturg, theatre critic;
Maska i Pokret: “In any case, the mask is an interesting enough theatrical tool, which we will certainly deal with for a long time to come.”
ESSAYS
HOW TO START THE WHEEL?
Slobodan Blagojević, author, poet, philosopher thinking about theatre Maska i pokret
This is direct Theatre - like the greatest theatre I know, the Robert Wilson Theatre - a theatre that does not seek any mediation to act on us.
THE TRAVEL BOOK OF AN EXCITED SPECTATOR
Kaća Čelan, writer, theatre director, actress - impressions on the occasion of the premiere Somebody has Killed the Play
The author of this travelogue believes that such projects deserve the special literary-theatrical treatment, radical in any case in relation to the current theatre critique.
THE INNER LIFE OF MASK
Slavko Milanović, playwright, dramaturg and theatre critic
Brings a very comprehensive review and 'in-depth' comparative analysis of one-act plays with masks by "Maska i Pokret" Theatre