Authors’ Team:
Director: Marko Manojlović
Costume designer: Dragana Lađevac

Casting:
Old: Nebojša Milovanović
New: Pavle Pekić

A Word from the Author:

When this year’s BELEF gave me the assignment: short form, domestic writer, Krečko (Miloš Krečković – the dramaturge of JDP/ the Yugoslav Drama Theatre) reminded me of Borislav Pekić and gave me a book of his complete drama works. Also, while working on the "Pompous Fool" (by Jovan Sterija Popović, National Theater of Kikinda and Belgrade Drama Theatre) with Pavle Pekić, he told me a lot about Borislav Pekić and got me interested. I read "In Eden, in the East" and I liked it very much.

"In Eden, in the East" is a figurative observation of the world in which Pekić lived. Then this observation was transferred into an entire world of drama, in which I, too, live from time to time. It is the world divided on winners and losers, on those who are oppressed and on oppressors; on spies and on subjects of espionage; or in the modern global slang, achievers and non-achievers – and it shows that they do not exist one without the other.

I would like the audience to experience through my performance what I experienced while reading the drama. Identification.

"Because it bothers me as well, knowing HOW but not knowing – WHY?"
(Borislav Pekić, foreword to the drama In Eden, in the East).

Marko Manojlović

Born in 1982, in Belgrade; undergraduate ABD at the Faculty of Drama Arts, Department of Theatre Directing, in the class of Professor Slavenko Saletović.

On BELEF 2001 he made his debut as the assistant to the director Darjan Mihajlović, in the performance "Danton’s Death", after which he assisted to many renowned theatre directors, among others Rahim Burhan (performance "The White, White World", BELEF 03), Jagoš Marković ("Madame Minister"); Jovan Ćirilov ("Non-summoned", BELEF 04); Gorčin Stojanović ("Captain John Peoplefox"); Laurent Van Son ("Holes").

He directed his debutant performance "Death" on the text by Woody Allen in 2005, on the scene Studio of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre. It was followed by the performance "The Trap" in the National Theatre of Sombor, "Three Little Pigs" in the Theatre Boško Buha, "The Pompous Fool" in the National Theatre of Kikinda and Belgrade Drama Theatre, "Without Masque" (Atelier 212).

This performance has been realized with the special consent by the "Borislav Pekić" Foundation.