Martin McDonagh
THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE
Directed by Boris lsaković

(Chamber Stage)
premiere - April 2009

Actors: JASNA ĐURIČIĆ, KSENIJA MARTINOV-PAVLOVIĆ, BORIS ISAKOVIĆ, MARKO SAVIĆ

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The cult piece of the Irish dramatist, one of the best social-poetic plays of the late 20th century European dramaturgy, which still has an air of contemporariness for today's spectator living in the era of multicultural diversity and ethno-social tensions, The Beauty Queen of Leenane is at the same time the official directorial debut of Boris lsakovic, one of the best actors of Serbian theatre.

Martin McDonagh, playwright. Born in Camberwell, London, England to Irish parents. During visits to Galway in the summers, McDonagh became acquainted with the dialect of English spoken in western Ireland, which he would later put to work in his plays. His ironic combination of coarse country language, primal symbolism and black humour represents a peculiar fusion of the work of John Millington Synge with the modern drama of Harold Pinter, David Mamet and British television comedy. He has been awarded Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Most Promising Playwright in 1996. His dramatic corpus to date incorporates two dark comedic trilogies, The Leenane Trilogy (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West) and The Aran Islands Trilogy (The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Banshees of Inisheer), and the dark fantasy, The Pillowman, as well as two prize-winning radio plays, including The Tale of the Wolf and the Woodcutter.

Boris lsaković, an actor and director, was born in 1966 in Novi Sad. He has graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, in class of Professor Bora Draskovic He was a permanent member and the lead of the ensemble of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, spending some time there as the Artistic Director of Drama. Since 2000 he has been an independent artist. Boris lsakovic has played a number of roles at the Serbian National theatre in Novi Sad, but also at all theatres in Belgrade and sever Croatian theatres as well. He is both film and theatre actor As a pedagogue, he is a Professor of Acting the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad Boris lsakovic has received three Sterija's and many other awards