Thursday, May 9 2024 at 7.00 p.m, Big Stage
The play is recommended for audiences over the age of 9
Theatre “Boško Buha”, Belgrade, Serbia
Author: Sue Townsend
Director: Tanja Madnič Rigonat
Costume design: Milena Vasić
Stage design: Vesna Popović
Composer: Irena Popović Dragović
Starring: Mladen Lero, Andrijana Oliverić, Stefan Bundalo, Anja Pavićević, Andrej Nježić, Relja Janković, Katarina Gojković, Uroš Jovčić i Zoran Cvijanović
"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (13 ¾ years old)" is a diary that, in a hilariously entertaining way, depicts the life of an adolescent-intellectual, who is often much funnier to the reader than the main character. Although the story is set in the 1980s, in Great Britain during the reign of Margaret Thatcher, Adrian's problems are universal both in time and space. He grows up in a dysfunctional family, survives the divorce of his parents and the departure of his mother from the family home, endures peer violence, his father loses his job, survives the suffering and happiness that comes with the first big fall in love. He is convinced that he is a great writer in the making, and even the rejections he constantly receives from the BBC, to which he persistently sends his poetry, cannot sway him. The performance of the "Boško Buha" Theater is created with the desire for new generations to get to know this irresistible hero, the voice of the young, and together with him ask some important questions about growing up. The play maintains a diary-confessional tone, so Adrijan shares his most intimate thoughts with the audience, leading them through the stormy events of his life through which the twisted characters of peers, parents, neighbors, teachers parade, so the director Tatjana Mandić Rigonat stylistically determined this performance as polyphonic monodrama..