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The Drama of Offering the Dramatic

In this text Helena Peričić discusses the following plays: Ivan Supek's Heretik (Heretic, 1963), Vlatko Perković's Zatvoreno poslijepodne (Closed Afternoon, 1966), Antun Šoljan's Dioklecijanova palača (Diocletian's Palace, 1969), Ivan Kušan's Svrha od slobode (The Purpose of Freedom, 1971), Ivo Brešan's Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja (A Production of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja, 1971), and Tonči Petrasov Marović's Antigona, kraljica u Tebi and Temistoklo (Antigone, the Queen of Thebes, and Themistocles, both from the early 1980s). Dramatic literature and the theatre of these "dark years" did not passively mirror the happenings in Croatia within the former Yugoslav state. On the contrary, many of the above authors paid for their courage to write these texts with being passed over in silence, and with intellectual, political and existential harassment.

playwriting; Croatia; Ex-Yugoslavia; second half of the 20th century; politics; ideology; subversivity; repression; I. Supek; V. Perković; A. Šoljan; I. Kušan; I. Brešan; T. Petrasov Marović

Izlaganje pod naslovom "Dramatičnost nuđenja dramskog" održano je po pozivu u sklopu 30. zagrebačkih književnih razgovora /30th Zagreb Literary Talks (Zagreb, 1-4 October 2009) u organizaciji Društva hrvatskih književnika.