Neda Radulović
PAINKILLERS
Directed by IVA MILOŠEVIĆ

(Chamber Stage)
premiere -December 2008

Actors: JOVANA STIPIĆ, IVANA V. JOVANOVIĆ, DRAGINJA VOGANJAC, NENAD PEĆINAR

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The first dramatic accomplishment of Neda Radulovic, one of the most talented members of the young generation's tidal wave in our dramaturgy, speaks with irony, parody, but also melancholy about the loneliness and frustration of a post-modern individual who feels lost even though it is seemingly emancipated, through an originally chosen angle of interpreting man-woman relationships. In a milieu determined by both conventions of a middle-class marriage and gossip-ethics of women's "newsmagazines" on the one hand, and the world of fashion and cosmetic brands and wonders of plastic surgery on the other, the authoress portrays seemingly emancipated women and apparently "strong" men as in the same measure tragic and tragicomic individuals. These individuals, thrown against their own will into the game in which illusions of happiness are produced, exchanged and sold, are in a certain way recognizable and prevalent prototypes of or time, but they are at the same time original, remarkably individualized characters who herald both a new theme and a new style in contemporary Serbian drama - a style of forewarning humour and a new urban sentimentality.
The realization of this drama has been entrusted to Iva Milosevic, one of the most successful and promising directors of our young generation (successfully directed dramas by Ravenhill, La Bute, Sarah Kane).

Neda Radulovic was born in 1983 in Belgrade. She graduated Dramaturgy from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. As an associate, Neda Radulovic participated in a number of dramaturgy workshops within the NovA DrAma Project (NADA) and Sterijino pozorje.
She is currently doing postgraduate studies on the Theory of Dramatic Arts, Media and Culture at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
As a dramaturge she has worked for theatre and television and has co-authored the script for the film Prolaz (Passage) by Kosta Dordevic.


Iva Milosevic, a director, graduated Theatre and Radio Direction from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She has directed the Magic Afternoon by Wolfgang Bauer (Bitef Theatre), Shopping and Fucking by Mark Ravenhill (Yugoslav Drama Theatre, "Bojan Stupica" Theatre), Kasimir and Karoline by Odon von Horvath (National Theatre Sombor), Bash by Neil LaBute (YDT, "Bojan Stupica" Theatre), Road to Nirvana by Arthur Kopit (Atelier 212 Theatre), The Little Mermaid by H.C. Andersen (Little Theatre "Dusko Radovic"), Zmijsko leglo by Vasily Sigarev (Atelier 212 Theatre), Wolf and Seven Little Kids by the Grimm brothers (Puppet Theatre "Pinokio"), Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane (YDT, "Bojan Stupica" Theatre).