Drama

Rhinoceros
Eugène Ionesco

Rhinoceros

Nightmare of endured war reality becomes the backbone of this play in which a mysterious infection slowly turns people into rhinoceros. Metamorphosis connecting totalitarian linguistic discourse and primal human animalism becomes thus a powerful image of lost humanity in the invading tide of madness and as such a welcome theatre vaccine against all forms of collective contagions.

Rhinoceros
An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen

An Enemy of the People

Ibsen uncompromisingly leads his hero beyond the order where democracy represents a mere terror over majority fascinated by their own gain. Doctor Stockmann - because of his insistence to cleanse the actual and moral quagmire of the community – will be declared an enemy of the people. Because “people”–manipulated by local rulers – will stand by a nice and righteous doctor only until they realizethat his discovery could give their town a bad name and empty their pockets. 

An Enemy of the People
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello

Six Characters in Search of an Author

In this Pirandello’s play the so-called ordinary people interrupt a theatre rehearsal unexpected and uninvited with an unusual request: we want our story to be told on the stage! This rough intrusion into the protected theatre space is no longer a trigger for conversational drama of absurdism as it was at its première, but possible start of a cruel, activist story about theatre occupied by people in a desperate search for any kind of satisfaction. Those six characters, disappointed with political leaders and banking elites, choose theatre as their last resort, however under their terms.

Six Characters in Search of an Author
A Romance of Three Loves
Antun Šoljan

A Romance of Three Loves

A Romance of Three Loves by Šoljan is a witty and touching drama play in verse, formally endued with Moliere – Shakespeare features, which puts us at the same time the most complicated questions about love and life. On the Stage 55 it will be directed by Nikola Šimić.

A Romance of Three Loves
What Are We Waiting For?
Marija Dukić

What Are We Waiting For?

The work of Marija Dukić, within the framework of the Project “Towards real male – female equality: how to reconcile professional and family life”, directed by Marica Grgurinović, directly stimulates critical reevaluation of gender stereotypes deeply present in contemporary Croatian society.

What Are We Waiting For?
The Hole
Živko Jeličić

The Hole

Author duo led by director Zoran Mužić and composer Mate Matišić with their vision of The Hole packed the audience until the last seat in Severova Street during the first performances at the 62nd Split Summer Festival, continuing during the 2016/17 season at the Croatian National Theatre Split, where Snježana Sinovčić and Ksenija Prohaska as Mrs. Anježa and Mrs. Tereža and Joško Ševo and Trpimir Jurkić as Mr. Vito and Mr. Pere await for us.

The Hole
Bjegunke GOSTOVANJE
Pierre Palmade i Christophe Duthuron

Bjegunke

Milka Podrug Kokotović i Ksenija Prohaska ulogama u komediji Bjegunke na najbolji su mogući način najavile novu kazališnu sezonu u Dubrovniku, a nakon uspjeha u Kazalištu Marina Držića, predstavu u režiji Nenni Delmestre imat će priliku vidjeti i splitska publika

Bjegunke
Bed of Nails
Elvis Bošnjak

Bed of Nails

Critically acclaimed play by Elvis Bošniak, the most important Split playwright in the last fifteen years, directed by Nenni Delmestre, returns to the Croatian National Theatre Split stage in this season again. At 26th Marulić Days Bed of Nails received awards for the best play, best director and best actor - Goran Marković playing Toma.

Bed of Nails
Les Parents Terribles
Jean Cocteau

Les Parents Terribles

A play directed by Goran Golovko, with its subversive mix of elements of vaudeville, comedy, melodrama, tragedy ... profoundly interferes with the fabric of family relationships.

Les Parents Terribles
Melodrama
Anica Tomić and Jelena Kovačić

Melodrama

Melodrama, authors’ project by Anica Tomić and Jelena Kovačić attempts to answer one simple question: Are we ready to take responsibility?

Melodrama
Miracle At Viper's Glen
Ante Tomić

Miracle At Viper's Glen

Hilarious Tomić’s story about the Poskok (Viper) family, authoritarian father and four sons lost in the wasteland of Dalmatian hinterland represents uniquely humorous script for an excellent comedy. Namely, the oldest son is fed up with his father’s terror, dirty laundry and polenta in a hundred different ways and decides to change his life by getting married. Ever since that moment time is measured by a new calendar within the macho world of the Poskok family.

Miracle At Viper's Glen
Stories from Vukovar
Author’s project by Pere Eranović

Stories from Vukovar

Monodrama Stories from Vukovar forms the theater space into a wartime shelter in which an actor achieves a complete and unselfish relationship with the audience. Actor, thus for an hour becomes a war correspondent, and the audience his fellow citizens while he is trying to relieve their worries talking about love, life, enemies, war, childhood ...

Stories from Vukovar
Partners in Crime
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Partners in Crime

Directed by TrpimirJurkić, Stage 55 presents a psychological game of discovering "disease history" of a fifteen years long marriage and numerous problems that have been pushed under the carpet for too long.

Partners in Crime
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

Perhaps the most significant literary work on alienation has been transformed into a chamber drama directed by Ivan Plazibat, where Nikša Arčaninin with a masterful stage movement evokes the fate of a man trapped in a monstrous insect-like creature.

The Metamorphosis
The Golden Dragon
Roland Schimmelpfennig

The Golden Dragon

The Golden Dragon, the story of a dead end of complete human alienation our modern civilization has found itself in, represents the black comedy of one of the most interesting and most read German writers of the middle generation.

The Golden Dragon
The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh GOSTOVANJE
Miroslav Krleža

The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh

The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh by Miroslav Krleža, directed by Georgij Paro and performed by the Croatian National Theatre Varaždin, was awarded as the best play of 9th Gumbek Days Festival. Version which connects the poetic world of ballads with emphatic critically displayed contemporary reality created an extraordinary drama of stratified meanings with spectacular directing and great acting performance.

The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh
Ostavljam te HNK Zadar
prema motivima: E. Albee „Marriage play“

Ostavljam te

HNK Zadar gostuje u Splitu s hit-predstavom u režiji Matjaža Latina, premijerno izvedenom u prosincu prošle godine. U središtu priče je bračni par koji, nakon trideset godina braka, igra vlastiti bračni igrokaz u kojem su, samo naizgled, uloge već podijeljene...

Ostavljam te
Otvarač za konzerve Narodni teatar Štip
Victor Lanoux

Otvarač za konzerve

Poslije eksplozije tvornice žvakaćih guma, dva prijatelja ostaju zarobljena u prostoriji u kojoj im za hranu ostaju samo konzerve graška, no izgubili su otvarač... Tragikomediju francuskog autora gledamo u produkciji Narodnog teatra iz Štipa i režiji Stojana Matavulja

Otvarač za konzerve