THE RETURN OF ROBINSON CRUSOE

A monodrama for children
(based on Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe)

Production: BELEF, DOB
Director: Vojin Paunovic
Stage Adaptation: Ugljesa Sajtinac
Set Design: Roman Vrhovski
Prodution Manager: Biljana Ilic
Robinson Crusoe: Ljubomir Bandovic

Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731) The English author, the first news story writer. In the 57th year of his stormy life Defoe writes his first novel The Life and Unusual Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York. The novel brought him international fame. It was translated into almost every language in the world. In his works Defoe describes realistic life. Daniel Defoe is considered to be the first English novelist.

Vojin Paunovic, director was born in Belgrade in 1971, graduated from the Faculty of Drama in Belgrade. Paunovic staged The Audience for Atelje 212 and The Merry-go-round for the Belgrade Theatre of Drama. He also directed and staged several plays in theatres in the province.

Ljubomir Bandovic, born in Berane, Montenegro in 1976. Bandovic had been an amateur actor since he was twelve years old in “Bora Stankovic” theatre in Vranje. He won two awards at the Republic and Federal Festival of Amateurs in 1991 for the best leading role in children's musical the The Cricket and the Ants. Bandovic graduated from the Faculty of Drama, Department of Acting in the class of professor Vladimir Jevtovic. During his studies and later, Bandovic appeared in more than 30 roles in professional theatres, radio dramas and performances, films and TV. He played roles in Miss Julia in the Belgrade Theatre of Drama, in Great Drama, Crippled Billy, Midsummer Night’s Dream in the National Theatre, North Force for BITEF Theatre and Cherry Orchard in the Yugoslav Theatre of Drama.

Robinson Crusoe – a life on the island

A theatre – playground monodrama for children. On the most popular Belgrade isle, Ada Ciganlija, a new space, a theatre-playground is being created. It is located in the ambience of a tropical isle. Funny looking tropical swings, merry-go-rounds, climbing objects, toboggans, the sand castles and yards on the Robinson isle are there to teach children how to survive in the nature. Robinson brings to life long forgotten skills – how to make a bow and arrows, how to learn to use them, how to make a fire, how to weave a basket ...Robinson alone is threading the same road that the mankind has crossed turning from grape collectors to craftsmen, spanning thousands of years of human progress.