In the National Theatre, on 28 January at 7.30 p.m., play ”Bereaved Family” by Branislav Nušić and directed by Ahmed Imamović will be presented to audience of Sarajevo.
Branisla Nušić was a Serbian novelist, playwright, satirist, essayist who is more celebrated as a playwright than as a novelist.
Through his plays, Nušić presented Serbian society and the mentality of the middle class in small towns and counties. He brought to the stage not only the retailers, canton captains, semi-educated officers, and current and former ministers’ wives, but also formerly distinguished and overly ambitious householders, their decadent sons, failed students, distinguished daughters of marriageable age, and greedy upstarts.
All-in-all he depicted the Serbian middle class and its morality, which managed to survive despite all the political and social reforms, newly formed educational system and cultural institutions. He also paid special attention to the social conditions of their origins, as they started out with unrealizable desires and insatiable appetites, the distorted family and marital relationships, misunderstandings and intolerance between fathers and sons, unfaithful husbands and wives, officers’ ignorance and corruption and unreal political ambitions. Nušić thus became not only a playwright, observer and interpreter of his time, but also an analyst of Serbian society and its mentality at a specific historical period.
The play ”Bereaved Family” has the elements of verbal comedy, situation comedy etc. and it talks about a ”bereaved” group of people who await the inheritance and already plan how to spend it, event though they never got it.
The actors Aleksandar Seksan, Mirvad Kurić, Alen Muratović, Sead Pandur, Amra Kapidžić, Vedrana Seksan, Sanela Pepeljak, Ermin Sijamija and other, will, with this play honour the memory of a great author Branislav Nušić.
