PARODY IN THE GREAT NATIONAL DRAMA IN THE PLAY BALCAN IS NOT DEAD BY DEJAN DUKOVSKI Cover Image

Пародија на големата национална драма во драмата Балканот не е мртов или Магија Еделвајс од Дејан Дуковски
PARODY IN THE GREAT NATIONAL DRAMA IN THE PLAY BALCAN IS NOT DEAD BY DEJAN DUKOVSKI

Author(s): Ivica Baković
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: Macedonian drama, Macedonian theatre, history, memory, past, parody, postmodernism

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the representation of history in Dejan Kukovski`s play Balcan in not Dead as posmodern version (remake) of the first Macedonian play, Vojdan Cernodrinski`s Macedonian Bloody Wedding. Dukovski`s play could be seen as some sort of deconstruction of the myth constructed in Cernodrinski`s play which involves a special understanding of a Macedonian history. While Cernodrinski represents Macedonian history as a circle of tragedies in which subjects are only marionettes playing already determined scenario, Dukovski is trying to represent that history from different point of view which corresponds with modern historiography. A special emphasis is put on the performances of Dukovski`s play in two different socio-political contexts in the 1990s.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 64
  • Page Range: 39-53
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Macedonian