Barbelo 3

STERIJINO POZORJE FESTIVAL 2010 - Novi Sad, Serbia -
City Drama Theatre "Gavella" Zagreb, Croatia -
BARBELLO, ABOUT DOGS AND CHILDREN
text by Biljana Sebljanovic
directed by Paolo Magelli

Magelli’s stage reading of the play by Biljana Srbljanovic is marked by extraordinary lyricism, elegance, purity of directorial procedure, reduction of signs and a focus on the actors’ expressive play, atomised, yet penetrating, freed from superfluous gestures. With simple changes in lighting, using video beam that effectively serve the expression of the characters’ subconscious, minimalist, functional, emotional music, as wells as a very suggestive actors’ play, an authenticity of the stage reading has been achieved. Magelli has clearly, articulately and poetically potently shown the philosophic/anthropologic, as well as the socio-political issues treated by Srbljanovic in the play.