Sveta Rožalija u kazalištu ili evo slike svita tko ga vidit hoće

Abstract

Sveta Rožalija was first performed in 1999 at the Požega City Theatre, on the occasion of marking the 300 th birth anniversary of the author. Talented young professionals (director: Jasmin Novljaković; adaptation and dramatization: Anita Jelić; choice of music and chore -ography: Jasminka Petek Krapljan; stage design: Miljenko Sekulić; accentuation: Snježana Mostarkić), cooperating with fifteen actors from Požega, members of the secondary-school theatrical troupe, and actors of the older generation, created an exceptionally successful performance combining Baroque text, language and accent of the 18 th century with mod ern visual approach. Starting with the question what the message of the topics tackled by the long poem today is, they demonstrated how interesting this Baroque long poem actually is for a modern spectator, since it speaks about the thing that is missing from the modern stage – the sense of living, while portraying the potentially right and wrong an swers to the problems of life through characters. Unfortunately, this was the only theatrical performance of this work (apart from a radio drama). However, in 2017, students of the Antun Kanižlić Primary School presented Kanižlić as a character in the play Vrijeme Antuna Kanižlića (The Time of Antun Kanižlić) .