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The Traditional in the Contemporary: the Slave Girl by Ranka Mesarić

Anamarija Žugić


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Abstract

The subject of this paper is new reading and stage setting of The Slave Girl by Hanibal Lucić in 2003, produced by Hvar Public Theatre and a director Ranka Mesarić. The paper analyzes the director’s reading of The Slave Girl as a story about »love delay« which subsumes the themes of trauma and violence against women. The paper questions whether it is possible by shortening the original script and relying on the beauty of its expression to heal the spots that clearly symbolize the dominance of the patriarchal and trade discourses and due to which the female voice does not have the chance to witness its trauma. Furthermore, it is analyzed whether the setting of the play in Hvar’s ambient, that figures as the surreal homeland refuge, could enable the rehabilitation, i.e. whether the »delay« is indeed the point of contemplation and healing or just an escape from the suppressed trauma.

Keywords

The Slave Girl by Hanibal Lucić; ambiental theatre; Ranka Mesarić; witnessing; performative; testimonial literature; trauma

Hrčak ID:

220348

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/220348

Publication date:

30.4.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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