Croatian God Mars

In 2014 the entire world, and the theatre as well, will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI. It is our wish at Gavella Theatre to join this event by re-analyzing the texts of probably our greatest writer, who intensely dealt with the War years and its conflicts throughout his oeuvre. Thus his collection of stories, Hrvatski bog Mars (Croatian God Mars), serves as possibly the most potent source of material where Krleža focuses not so much on the totality of war, as on the fate of the little man, lost in the battles into which he was forced to go and where, torn from everything he holds dear, under someone else's flag, he dies for a foreign ruler. The writer's anti-war involvement is perennial, because the cannon fodder is always recruited in the same manner: the building site of the world which was created by WWI - the world in which we live today - is covered with layers and layers of soldiers' bones, so much like the ones Krleža created... Directed by Sebastijan Horvat, one of the most interesting Slovene directors, interested in the disolution of form and in the ''emotional map'' of the performer, and dramatized by Milan Marković, Croatian God Mars gathers ten actors prepared for the experience of total theatre...