| TOMISLAV BAKARIĆ |
- Farce -
TOPIC: an undertaker's chores and toilsome survival
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 7 male and 3 female
NUMBER OF ACTS: 3
PLACE: America
TIME: the present
SUMMARY:
An undertaker pays a hitman to provide him with more clients. The hitman endangers members of the undertaker's family. The mechanism of death follows its own laws and can no longer be halted by an individual's will.
The play was first produced at the "Gavella" Drama Theatre in Zagreb in 1970.
- Drama with the elements of farce -
TOPIC: Croato-Serbian war
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 19 male and 6 female
NUMBER OF SCENES: 10
PLACE: Croatia and Serbia
TIME: the present
SUMMARY:
The play deals mainlywith the Serbian political leadershipwhich initiated and still leads the expansionist war, sinking up to its ears in crime. The characters have been taken from real life and named after genuine war protagonists; however their relationships and mutual discords are the product of the author's imagination. Embracing nihilistic darkness as their starting point, besides killing others, they are killing their own collaborators.
The play was written in August 1994, and has not yet been produced.
BIOGRAPHY:
Tomislav Bakarić was born in 1940. He studied comparative literature and Germanic studies at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Arts -Department of Humanities and Social Science in Zagreb. From 1967 he worked as an announcer at Zagreb Radio, and since 1990 he has been the director of Croatian Radio. He has published a novel "How the City Died" (1966), as well as several short stories and book reviews. Six of his plays have been staged to date (some of them repeatedly). The play "Anno Domini 1573" won the best script award at the Sarajevo Theatre Festival.
ADDRESS:
Tomislav Bakarić, Čret 36, Zagreb, Phone: 01/241-541