The Vojdan Chernodrinski Theater in Prilep on May 27 premiered the play "Double Bottom" based on a text by Goran Stefanovski. The director, as well as the stage and costume designer is Natasha Poplavska, the composer of the music is Risto Vrtev, and the dramaturgy is by Ivana Nelkovska. The artistic team also includes the designer of light Milcho Alexandrov, and the design of the poster and the program is Bojana Artinovska Trpceska.

The play stars Katerina Cakmakoska-Klincheska, Daniela Ivanoska, Dimitar Gjorgjievski, Igor Trpceski, Zoran Ivanoski and Mihajlo Milenkoski, and the band "Double Bottom" consists of: Tome Temelkoski, Metodija Kostoski and Ana Mitoski.

"A double bottom is a basement in the head. There we hide all the double plans, with which woman to marry if our person dies in a car accident, like to transfer our brother's savings book to our name if he dies suddenly, there are all secret adulteries, everything we have kept silent, what intentionally we have forgotten, there it is clear who we hate so much, there we hide all the disbelief in what we publicly swear that we believe and all the faith in what we publicly give up, there are the repositories of vanity and passion, our darkness and defeat, there we are no makeup, no artificial jaws, no midges, we'm ugly there. "The terrible thing we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves is the double bottom," Goran Stefanovski once wrote.

- Goran Stefanovski wrote the play "Double Bottom" in 1983, calling it "passion in three positions and codes", which resembles the musical form suite and in it opens the problems of the individual artist, lunatic and revolutionary against the system, embodied in the character of Minister of Culture.

He exposes the different social positions through debate and opposing views on the meaning of artistic creation, and puts the characters of the artist Jakov, the Minister of Culture Bozo, his wife housewife Paraskeva, their depressed daughter, the ballerina Kristina, and the special advisor Nove in an apocalyptic future. crazy past and revolutionary present.

Although Stefanovski ends the work with a code, he does not give us a solution, but leaves their positions unchanged, and opens the dilemma of how much and how the artistic reality corresponds to reality - said the theater "Vojdan Chernodrinski" before the premiere of the play.

(The text was published in "Cultural Press" No. 130, in the print edition of the newspaper "Free Press" on May 28-29, 2022)