The theater has a responsibility to society

The promotion of the book took place in FDU-Skopje

The publishing house "Gavros", as a special act to mark the World Theater Day - March 27, at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje promoted the book "The Basic Problems of Directing" by director and professor Hugo Klein.

An extremely significant work in the field of theater art is the book "The Basic Problems of Directing" by the theater director and former professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Hugo Klein (1894-1981).

Born in Vukovar, Hugo Klein was a director, theater critic, translator, Shakespeare scholar, author of several works on the theater and one of the fathers of psychoanalysis in the former Yugoslavia. As a student of Sigmund Freud, he received his doctorate in medicine in 1919 at the Medical Faculty in Vienna. From 1945 he worked as a director at the National Theater in Belgrade. He taught theater direction at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade from 1949 until his retirement.

The first edition of the book "Basic Problems of Directing" was published in 1951 in Belgrade. At the faculties of dramatic arts, the book is used as a textbook for theater directing, and therefore its publication in the Macedonian language is very important. Published by "Gavros", the book was published in translation by Emma Markoska Milcin.

On the luxuriously designed cover of the Macedonian edition of the book is written: "The 'Basic Problems of Directing' confronts the director, actors and all other participants in making a play that making a play is not only an aesthetic but also an ethical act." Theater must discover its time and speak about it, if it really wants to be contemporary and not end up on the margins of culture and society."

The speeches of the promoters Vladimir Milchin, theater director, and Kristina Lelovac, actress and professor at FDU, at the promotion held on the World Theater Day - March 27, moved in that direction.

Promoter Vladimir Milchin and editor Nika Gavrovska

The director Vladimir Milchin emphasized that it is the third edition of the book that he holds in his hands, but it is the first in the Macedonian language and is the most luxuriously equipped compared to the previous two editions, as well as that the preparation and design of the book is a real feat of the publishing house. Gavros" and its editor Nika Gavrovska, as well as translator Emma Markoska Milcin.

As a student of Klein, in his address, Milchin pointed to several facts from the life of the author of the book, but also to their mutual communication after the period of study. In the end, he pointed to the thought that "theatre has a responsibility to society", as one of the messages that Klein left for the new generations.

Actress and professor Kristina Lelovac clarified that in the book "The Basic Problems of Directing", in essence, Hugo Klein writes about the "Stanislavski System", but in its practical application on the theater stage. "The work is written from the perspective of Professor Klein's practice, from the perspective of the theater he saw and created, the dramatic literature he read, staged and wrote about, as well as the work of the actors he saw on stage" , Lelovac pointed out. Excerpts from the book were read by actress Simona Spirovska at the promotion.

(The text was published in "Cultural Press" number 173, in the printed edition of the newspaper "Sloboden Pechat" on 1-2.4.2023)

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