On Tuesday, 12 March, as a part of festival Sarajevo Winter 2013, from 8 p.m. the audience of Sarajevo will have the opportunity to see the play ”The Lover”, directed by Lawrence Kiiru and realized by Theatre Marin Držić from Croatia. The play will be played in Sarajevo War Theatre (SARTR) starring Frane Perišin and Glorija Šoletić.
The Lover is a 1962 one-act play by Harold Pinter. Pinter leads the audience to believe that there are three characters in the play: the wife, the husband and the lover. But the lover who comes to call in the afternoons is revealed to be the husband adopting a role. He plays the lover for her: she plays the lover for him. The play contrasts bourgeois domesticity with sexual yearning.
As the play goes on the man (first as the lover and then as the husband) expresses a wish to stop the pretend adultery, to the dismay of the woman. Finally, the husband suddenly switches back to the role of the lover.
As with the drama of Anton Chekhov, some of Pinter’s plays support “serious” and “comic” interpretations; The Lover has been staged successfully both as an ironic comedy on the one hand and as a nervy drama on the other. As is often the case with Pinter, the play probably contains both.
The director of the play Lawrence Kiiru was born in Kenya, and he graduated in Zagreb. He is the member of Croatian Association of Drama Artist.
