Stage design for the play „Drama about Mirjana and those around her“ , Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb, 2010.
Author: Ivor Martinić
Director: Anja Maksić Japundžić
Dramaturg: Diana Meheik
Stage design: diaprojektor / Ana Martina Bakić and Ivana Knez
Music: Dario Bulić / Soulfingers
Choreography: Rajko Pavlić
Light design: Deni Šesnić
The intimist drama revolving around middle aged secretary Mirjana and people in her life is situated in a series of fragmented interiors, but it is staged in an abandoned public bath, providing the invisible private domain of individuals with a shared public and political context.
The K-67 type kiosk, a fragment of public infrastructure, is deconstructed, inhabited and privatized in the play, evoking an era, and placing the personal drama into a specific transitional time and space setting.
The orchestra is placed in an abandoned swimming pool, keeping its original layout. The symbolic and metaphoric meanings of the orchestra/swimming pool are accentuated by its position at the same level as the audience, and by absence of barrier between the stage and the first few rows of seats.
The principal building elements of the public bath structure are the steel frame and the built-in fragments of the K-67 type kiosk. New function is given to the ready-made pool equipment elements: the diving board is the place where every character reaches their personal balance.
Every shift of stage (translation and rotation) happens at the moment of an emotional climax or a plot reversal, conceived by the director as musical numbers.