Preliminary communication

ACTRESSES’ IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY CROATIAN PLAYS

Lucija Ljubić orcid.org/0000-0002-5496-6463 ; Odjel za kulturologiju Sveučilišta J.J. Strossmayera u Osijeku

Abstract

The paper discusses two contemporary Croatian plays – Diva written by Marijana Nola (City
theatre Žar ptica, Zagreb, 2010) and Actresses and More (Theatre in Peščenica, Zagreb, 2012). Both
plays focus on actresses’ identity from the perspective of their theatrical and nontheatrical
everyday lives in which the characters re-examine their roles – of females and actresses. Modes of
female identity construction are analyzed in the light of gender studies interest in the body and
trauma, the private and the public, and are related to the contemporary Croatian theatre. The
analysis reveals that the female characters of Diva act as opponents in both life and theatre, while
in the Actresses and More they are activists connected by mutual act of rebellion against the
contemporary theatre.

Keywords

contemporary Croatian plays; female dramatic characters; actresses; identity; contemporary Croatian theatre

Hrčak ID:

124923

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/124923

Publication date:

30.6.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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