"The main premise is contained
in the very title Nedozvani (Senseless) in the sense in which
the people understand it: people who have lost the main guidelines
in life and their every attempt to find their way ends by them
becoming even more lost…"
Momcilo Nastasijevic
(Excerpts from the interview with Momcilo Nastasijevic by
writer Desimir Blagojevic, on the day of the premiere at
the Academic Theatre, "Pravda", June 20th, 1931)
And, like Nastasijevic stands alone with his poetry and
undeniable originality, so does his drama "Senseless" stand
alone and original with its complex values - unusual language,
depth of metaphor about our civic society ("tragic because
they are incapable of being tragic"), with its dramatic
characters and belonging to the modern movement with its
irrationalism, against all the shallow psychobabble.
"Senseless" is undoubtedly our best play between
the two wars, with an urban topic, in the Serbian drama heritage.
Jovan Cirilov's first venture into direction
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