Svibanj / May 2010 - Maistra

Iz moga kuta | From My Point of View
Crtež putovanja koje će se tek dogoditi | Crtež putovanja koje će se tek dogoditi
Naravno da mi nedostaje Hrvatska i moji
prijatelji koji tu žive, ali ja sam se “naučio” biti
stranac, tako da mi nije teško biti sam. Ali, dosta
sam se privikao na život u Los Angelesu.
Of course I miss Croatia and my friends who live
here, but I have “learned” to be a foreigner, so
it’s not hard for me to be alone. Anyway, I have
really got used to living in Los Angeles.
Možemo li očekivati da će netko od vaših prijatelja
glumaca iz inozemstva posjetiti predstave Ulyssesa,
odnosno Hrvatsku?
Svake godine neki poznati filmski i kazališni umjetnici
iz svijeta dolaze na naše predstave. Ove godine
očekujemo Annette Bening, s kojom je moja Lenka
prošle godine napravila divnu predstavu “Medeja” na
Međunarodnom festivalu teatra u Los Angelesu, u
produkciji s UCLA Liveom.
Često putujete. Gdje vi najradije volite odsjesti? Imate
li neki najdraži hotel na svijetu?
Ja uistinu mnogo putujem po svijetu i obično odsjedam
u dobrim hotelima, ali ni jedan ne pamtim po nečem
sasvim izuzetnom. Uglavnom su to mjesta samoće.
Međutim, ima u tome i nekakve poetike. Primjerice,
sjediti sam za nekim mahagonijskim šankom u
nepoznatom gradu i piti dobro crno vino…
Jednom ste izjavili kako vam je dosta kazališta i da sada
uživate u filmu. Što vam je trenutačno najveći izazov?
Pa, ja sam se uistinu zasitio teatra. A, ako ćemo
pošteno, igrao sam u njemu dovoljno. I previše. Nisam
se ja samo umorio od teatra, umorio se i teatar sam
po sebi. Film je mnogo mlađa i življa umjetnost i ja na
neki način više naginjem tom mediju…
Što privatno volite čitati, koju glazbu doma slušate,
kakve filmove/ predstave volite gledati?
Volim (još uvijek) najviše esejistiku… I poeziju koja
nalikuje na pjesme Danijela Dragojevića…
This year we are planning a big concert in which
we will mark the 10 year anniversary of the theater,
and definitely one new show title on the repertoire.
The premiere is planned on July 22, featuring 10
performances. In addition to this, we will replay some
of our old performances. For example, “King Lear”, the
opening play of our theatre, will be performed for the
tenth year in a row.
We will also play “Drunk Night in 1918” and Moliere’s
“Don Juan”, which was staged last summer by Paolo
Magelli. Our theater has become a real and relevant
part of the art scene in Istria and our spectators
regularly come and support their theatre.
Can we expect some of your actor friends from abroad
will visit the Ulysses performances and Croatia?
Every year some famous film and theater artists from
around the world come to see our performances. This
year we are expecting Annette Bening, with whom
my Lenka made a wonderful play “Medea” at the
International Theatre Festival in Los Angeles last year,
in the UCLA Live production.
You often travel. Where do you like staying most? Do
you have a favorite hotel in the world?
I really travel a lot and I usually stay at good hotels,
but I can’t remember anything remarkable about any
of them. Mostly they are places of solitude. However,
there is poetics about it, too. For example, sitting at a
mahogany bar in an unknown town, drinking good red
wine…
You said that you were tired of theater and that you are
enjoying film right now. What’s your greatest challenge
at the moment?
Well, I’m really fed up with theater. And, to be fair, I’ve
played enough on stage, more than enough. It’s not
only that I became tired of theater, but theater got
tired of itself. Film is a much younger and livelier art
and I have simply been more inclined to that medium…
What do you like reading, what kind of music do you
listen to at home, what kinds of films/performances do
you like watching?
I (still) prefer the essay genre… And poetry that
resembles Danijel Dragojević’s songs...
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