Milena Marković
SIMEON THE FOUNDLING
Directed by Tomi Janežiž

Geese, goats, horses, dogs, fish ... circus performers, monks, Gypsies, bikers, vagabonds ... make up the huge stage agglomeration Janezic uses to build powerful, simultaneous images, while the beams of light focus on the close-ups of the protagonists and emphasise the key dramatic scenes. The music composed by Boris Kovac, performed live by three orchestras: ethno sound (especially when the choir takes the role of
classical Choir) underscored with Kurtweillian sharp tones (evocative of Brechtian theatre).

And long passages of "audible" silence.

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Milena Marković, playwright, poet. Born in Zemun, on April 9, 1974. Graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts 1998, having presented her drama titled Pavilions, or Where I Am Going, Where I Come from and What's for Dinner.
In December 2001 she won the special prize for the drama Pavilions at the m.b.h. Vienna Theatre. Pavilions premiered at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, directed by Alisa Stojanovic and, the same year, at the National Theatre in Skoplje, directed by Srdjan Janicijevic. In October 2002, at the m.b.h. Vienna Theatre, the same drama premiered, directed by Zijah Sokolovic. Her second play God Had Mercy on Us - Tracks which earned her a Royal Court Summer Residency for Emerging Playwrights in London, was also published in "Theater heute", and staged in Poland and Germany.
The drama Tracks was awarded a Special Prize at the Sterijino pozorje festival.
In October 2005, she won the "Borislav Mihajlovic Mihiz" prize for her plays.
Her drama The Doll Ship had its world premiere in June 2006 at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, directed by Siobodan Unkovski, and her latest play Simeon the Foundling, awarded at the Sterijino pozorje festival, had its opening night in May 2006, at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, directed by Tomi Janezic.