Miroslav Krleža
Leda
Zagreb Youth Theatre (ZKM; HR), Royal Theatre Zetski Dom Cetinje and Festival Kotor Art (MNE)
Première: 20. 07. 2012, Festival Kotor Art
Running time 1 hour and 20 minutes without an interval.
Director Anica Tomić
Dramaturg Jelena Kovačić
Costume designer Doris Kristić
Composer Frano Đurović
Stage designers and selectors of additional music Anica Tomić, Jelena Kovačić
Lighting designer Milan Kovačević
Language consultant Đurđa Škavić
Cast
Klara Ksenija Marinković
Melita Nataša Dorčić
Knight Oliver Urban Srđan Grahovac
Aurel Dejan Ivanić
Klanfar Mirko Vlahović
The action of Krleža’s only comedy unfolds during a carnival night, while Europe is striving to find balance, torn between World War I and II, the events that have changed for good the notion of the tragic nature of memory. Today, that same Europe is torn between different yet similar failures, exhausted by economic and moral crisis; crushed, tattered, and powerless in its eternal effort to bring sense to real values such as pride, courage, valour, honour, and dignity. Leda is a comedy on being torn apart, tattered, and faced with antagonisms. This wild world is inhabited by an academic painter and an industrial magnate, by former important counsellors and their spouses, all captured and immersed into a never-ending and never-concluding story.