Summary
Vlada Petrić: The Word of Light
The director's diary of Vlada Petrić kept during the preparation of the theater play "Slovo sveltat" — premiered at the Serbian National Theater in Novi Sad on February 20, 1967 — offers readers a valuable opportunity for a deeper insight into the life of an unusual artistic endeavor, from the first meetings of the three authors to the stage realization and the first critical reactions that followed. Work on the play lasted, with interruptions, for about six years. Along with Vlada Petrić (1928–2019), theorist and literary critic Zoran Mišić (1921–1976) and composer Ljubica Marić (1909–2003) devoted themselves passionately to its design, all three of them in full creative strength during those years. At that time, Petrić had already distinguished himself as an editor of the film program on Television Belgrade and a director of drama shows, with a particularly notable participation in the performance of the first live television broadcast from Atelje 212, the theater play "Ljubovnaja zavist čerez jedne ciple" by Joakim Vujić, in 1958. In the context of "Light of the Word", it should be mentioned that Petrić was also the author of the adaptation. and the director of Vučić's "funny play", for which he received Steria's award for directing in 1959. Zoran Mišić was an established editor of magazines and anthology literary editions in Nolita, also a well-known writer of criticism and essays. In the years leading up to the beginning of the preparation of the play, Ljubica Marić distinguished herself as the author of musical works in which she imprinted a new, individual stamp, a refined synthesis of archaic and modernist impulses. She was inspired by lapidary texts carved on medieval stećaks (cantata "Pjesme prostara", 1956), as well as old folk songs ("Pasakalja za orkestar", 1958).
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