Illiad 2001, authorial project by Filip Šovagović

This ''theatrical experiment'' which will have its opening night on the stage of the author's parent theatre is an unconventional stage performance, in genre terms half way between confessional prose and a play. By illustrating the Croatian reality through dialogues that seem like a transcript of the everyday situations which do not let us ''be shaped'', Illiad 2001 captures us with humour, warmth, directness and, most important of all, credibility. ''Something nice has to be going on'' writes Šovagović in his text, resolutely refusing to concur with the general thought that pesimism is Croatia's national trait and juxtaposing creation-as-a-principle with such attitudes. The involvement we are invited to requires an alive dialogue, therefore a different opinion, disagreement, insubordination from the audience, as well as the actors. ''Every day when I would come to the theatre, I expected that something might happen, but that something would rarely happen, almost never'', says Illiad 2001 announcing itself as a theatre that believes in the imagination of reality, trying to produce the aforementioned ''something'' from the overwhelming resonance of the everyday life, out of spite towards the so many times encountered ''nothingness''.