July 12th (premiere), 13th,  14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th i 20th 2011

former Park hotel (beach below elementary school Grivica)       21,30 hours

Croatian drama of Croatian National Theatre “Ivan pl. Zajc”

Dubravka Ugrešić                                                                                               POKROVITELJ PREDSTAVE

BABA JAGA LAID AN EGG

Adaptation: Ivor Martinić

Three-part comedy

Directed by: Ivica Buljan

Scenography: Jean-Guy Lecat

Costumes: Ana Savić Gecan

Music: Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar

Cast: Ana Karić, Alma Prica, Milena Zupančič, Olivera Baljak, Jelena Lopatić, Jasmin Mekić, Zdenko Botić, Tanja Smoje, Žarko Radić, Zoran Prodanović Prlja, Damir Orlić, Ivanka Mazurkijević
 

The show Baba Jaga Laid an Egg is based on the novel by Dubravka Ugrešić that redefines the original myth of the Baba Jaga witch and tells a three-part modern fairytale of family misunderstanding, ageing and the search for love. An intimate tragicomic tale is set in transitional Novi Zagreb under a bird attack, a Bulgarian summer resort and a Czech spa. In three parts, all different in genres, the characters’ journey explores old age through intimate stories of political and social contemporaneity. The main characters of Baba Jaga struggle with loneliness, hypertrophied emotions and feelings of powerlessness and lack of belongingness. Through the interplay of different genres, discourses and styles, the tale revives the ancient myth of female emancipation, which is authentically Slavenic, but applicable for all eras and areas.

The focal project of Rijeka Summer Nights of 2011 based on Dubravka Ugrešić’s novel, a Croatian writer with an international career and reputation, and one of Croatia’s most successful writers, shall bring to the festival’s stage, besides the hometown’s star cast headed by Olivera Baljak, the divas of Croatian and Slovenian theatre: Ana Karić, Alma Prica and Milena Zupančič.