Stories from the ferry

Stories from the ferry

Based on the original concept by director Anica Tomić, in collaboration with dramaturge Jelena Kovačić and writer Ivor Martinić, Stories from the Ferry is a site-specific performance on the Jadrolinija ferry "Oliver".

The play Stories from the Ferry brings together the intimate stories of all our fathers, mothers, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers, and even ourselves who have met on the decks of ferries while traveling to or returning from the islands. Jadrolinija thus becomes the lifeline that connects us and our islands and people, their memories, hopes, and all realized and unrealized dreams.

For the first time, we tell the stories of those people for whom Jadrolinija exists—all those known and unknown people, the accidental travelers who have woven their lives into the decks of Jadrolinija's ferries. How do we tell the untold stories? Who are all these heroes and heroines? Who are all these ordinary people whose lives have been profoundly marked by Jadrolinija, and because of this, they reached their destinations? Jadrolinija's ferries thus became an intimate stage for many important events.

Based on the stories that arrived following the call from the Croatian National Theatre Split, providing a unique treasury of diverse temporal and spatial contexts, this play is both a theatrical response to people's memories and an intimate tribute to our recollections.

Director

Anica Tomić

Text

Ivor Martinić and Jelena Kovačić

Dramaturge Jelena Kovačić
Music Nenad Kovačić
Stage Movement Lada Petrovski Ternovšek
Costume Design Sonja Obradović
Performance set design Nikolina Kuzmić
Sound Design Josip Vinko Lozić
Producer Ena Subotić
Dramaturgy Assistant Karla Leko
Director's Assistants Rubina Sarajlić, Frane Smoljo

 

 

Orchestration and arrangement of wind instruments on the composition Putuju brodi Mak Murtić
Tenor saxophone Mak Murtić
Flute Andrea Jelavić
Clarinet Ante Jelinčić
Trumpet Lenko Markusović
Trombone Andrija Tolić
Tuba Romano Hantih

Played by Nikša Arčanin, Bruna Bebić, Vanda Boban Jurišić, Elvis Bošnjak, Luka Čerjan, Anastasija Jankovskaja, Stipe Jelaska, Mijo Jurišić, Zorana Kačić Čatipović, Andrea Mladinić, Davor Pavić, Stipe Radoja, Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov, Ana Marija Veselčić, Andrijana Vicković, Monika Vuco Carev, Donat Zeko, Frida Anković
String Quartet Sequentia Strings

Ela Radman Mršić - cello

Lucija Marinović - viola

Emanuela Jerčić - violin

Ante Labetić - violin

Extras  Lorenza Miletić, Laura Kovačić, Helena Mihalj, Rita Ančić, Ela Čulić, Ivan Božinović, Jakov Trilić