Drugi jezik na kojem je dostupan ovaj članak: Bosnian
Source: Jutarnji list
The Dubrovnik Summer Festival is the most important cultural product of Dubrovnik and the Dubrovnik-Neretva County, and the city and county administrations don’t know what to do with it. Ten or fifteen million HRK means nothing to them, since the Dubrovnik budget alone has exceeded half a billion HRK a long time ago. And the problem is obviously not the money. Or perhaps it is – there’s too many of it and too many people are interested in it.
The Ministry of Culture also lacks any concrete idea, but it’s actually not their job to design cultural policy for Dubrovnik from Zagreb. However, Minister of Culture Nina Obuljen Korzin is actually from Dubrovnik …
Anyway, it makes no sense to do go on like this anymore. The Festival will become its own purpose, it will become a purely local event in a mass tourism-filled city, unless decisive measures are taken.
When it comes to plays, every day of the festival should have at least two theatrical performances. For almost the same amount of money that is paid for ten times less today. Namely, why aren’t small plays being done along with the big ones. Something more ambience oriented? Why wouldn’t actors “jump out” at tourists with their sketches, in some kind of street theater?
Two drama premieres with great acting casts that are played less than ten times in total are not a rational investment. And then there is a logical nervousness around them: will they be successful? They have to be successful! What if they are a debacle, and we spent three million HRK on them? We could have built a theater for that money…
Many actors, especially young people, who are merely extras in these grandiose drama productions, could at the same time do plays where they say something, where they embody a character…
Dubrovnik is a traditional place for theatrical initiation and this tradition should be promoted. Summer student bands would be in the spirit of the city. Instead of two, there should be four drama premieres. And why shouldn’t the plays be subtitled in English finally? Is it really that everyone who is coming to the city during the summer doesn’t want to see Shakespeare in the local language? Wouldn’t strangers, educated people, actually experience hearing Shakespeare in a new language, with subtitles of course, as a new cultural challenge?
And if a building was to be built, or bought, to accommodate the host of artists arriving at the Festival, at least those young people – and this year there was about two thousand artists and logistics people of all kinds – instead of paying their overnight stays all over the place, it would save enough money for new program content…
When it comes to the music program, it should be done as the most expensive possible product, without the domestic trash and petty interests. As much as the theater tickets should be cheaper, that much the tickets for concerts should be more expensive. Of course, except for the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra: it’s a reward enough for them if you listen to them even for free.