Elfride Jelinek / Ivana Sajko
Jackie Kennedy / Medea
Director: Bojan Đorđev

Bitef theatre
Duration: min.

The starting point to the performance is the conflict between two archetypal literary representations of contemporary woman. On one hand, there is a play “The Death and the Girl IV – Jackie”, written by Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian Nobel prize winner, a feminist and a communist, while on the other , there is “ Archetype: Medea - Monologue for a Woman that Sometimes Speaks”, written by Ivana Sajko, one of the most radical and the most unique Croatian playwrights. Both texts display a feminist approach but not in the same manner – they move from a complete internalisation of a desired feminine behaviour to the rejection of any offered female role. The conflict is presented by the performance subtitle: “small secrets of the large figures of misogyny”. The performance tells the story of an ultimate misogyny which, often disguised, does exist in the contemporary society. That is a dark and sombre story interwoven with horror, deprived of any optimistic twist. It brutally depicts the reality, pushing it to the extremes, rather than offers any solution. It functions as a social symptomatology which redirects the responsibility for finding a solution – over to the audience.

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