 
Premiere: Foyer
CNT Split, 18 Dec 1999
Director: Ivan Leo
Lemo
Dramaturgy: Ana
Tonkovic Dolencic, Vlatko Broz
Set design: Ivan Leo
Lemo
Costimography: Vedrana
Rapic Prga
Choreographer: Ivica
Petric
Cast:
Marlene: Ksenija
Prohaska
Piano: Josko
Koludrovic
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from
the play’s notes
She
didn’t like women’s clothes, nor women’s company, didn’t persevere
at playing the violin, didn’t love her husband, wasn’t polite,
didn’t have a voice with a wide range, didn’t like city people,
didn’t love America, wasn’t a good mother, wasn’t a bad friend,
wasn’t unromantic, didn’t like Hitler, wasn’t dumb, didn’t like
dumb and dumber, didn’t give up smoking, or sex, or a real good Berlin
strudle, wasn’t a bad cook, wasn’t sober, didn’t save, didn’t die
rich, didn’t die young and beautiful, didn’t die at all, didn’t and
didn’t…
Ivan
Leo Lemo
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clipping
A
MATURE PERFORMANCE
It’s
about a cabaret done by actress Ksenija Prohaska and pianist Joška
Koludroviæa, who don’t accept any limits, advise or explanation,
but they are about what theatre is based on:
the actor and it’s audience, the meeting of one because of
the other and not one
against the other.(…)
The whole thing, understandably, is based on Ksenija Prohaska, who
very impressionably performs well-known Marlene Dietrich’s
standards, always giving her own interpretation both acting and
singing. And all this
happens in at least four languages.(…)
Jasen Boko,
Vijenac, 10 Feb 2000
DEMISTIFYING
DIVA MARLENE?
(…)Prohaska’s
voice is especially impressive, expressive and a little raspy, good
placement of voice and emotional experience.
Tonèi Šitin,
Vjesnik, 21 Dec 1999
WITH
EVERY MOVE REMINDS OF DIETRICH
(…)
Ksenija Prohaska in her performance proved Marlene Dietrich’s
statement that to perform she didn’t need anything except a stage
and a couple of lights.
Filip Krenus,
Zarez, 03 Feb 2000
WITH
A SONG TOWARDS DESTINY
The
soul of Marlene Dietrich found Ksenija Prohaska.
So that she can talk about her resistance and obstinacy,
female self-sufficiency and solitude, political engagement and
lovers, fame and fall, the misery which surrounded her, in one word,
about an exceptional personality, with more powerful characteristics
than the actress and the singer, even a celebrated film
star.(…)the performance carries the signature of Ksenija Prohaska.
Dalibor
Foretiæ, Novi list, 10 May 2000
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