The 59th edition of MTF « Vojdan Chernorinski » started in Prilep

With the awards for the AIVIVOCY Work by Snezana Konevski-Rusi, Sonja Mihajlova and Goce Todorovski and with the performance of « 12 » on MNT-Skopje last night at FC « Marko Cepenkov » in Prilep started the 59th MTF « Vojdan Chernodrinski ».

The opening was emotional and with a lot of applause for the award -winning lifetime.

-How many lives I lived on stage, only one in life. When I step on the stage and have a task, I feel that I am constantly. With your applause I am the most. Along with my theater I got old (MNT, NZ), I entered the eighth
Decade, as he also marks 80 years. Radio, Snow’s first love marks 80 years. And here I wish the Macedonian Theater Festival is over 105 years. Thanks to the festival and thank Nikola Kimovski, the initiator for my award – said Koneski – Rusi.

-This prize for me is worth as hard as this theater festival -a holiday of theater art, a holiday of theater artists, as part of Macedonia’s cultural identity. For me it is the most valuable. She has been 40 years since my socializing with theater and theater. All the past years for me this is an exciting adventure of mind, heart. Just as theater has both bright and dark. Lights – a challenge, to create a character looking for some stage truth. The other side is the darker – the challenging that in the country like Macedonia is constantly caused by changes, transformations and which inevitably these 40 years I wear on the theater has left both a mark and a scar on both the heart and mind – said the actress of the Bitola Theater, Sonja Mihajlova.

Actor Goce Todorovski got huge applause. And in his manner, he laughed
the audience.

The festival this year is symbolic in the sign of number three. Three winners
At the Lifetime Achievement Award, three -member jury, three speakers at the opening.

-« Laugh and dare » is the motto of this festival. And as I decided the motto, so did laughter and daring. Since the closure of the theater scenes here to the daily challenges in the process of organizing the festival. I hope that at least by the end of my term, by next year, we will show that the most important thing for the festival is to work together for him. My gratitude is to all who contributed today to open the 59th MTF « Vojdan Chernodrinski » here in Prilep. Dear volunteers, this year you are in the most number, proving that we have confidence in each other and that Prilep is really a city of theater youth. Dear friends of the festival, without you this vision for the whole city-theater would not have come true, thank you! Dear Publiko, I wish you satisfaction with the performances and this year you have the opportunity to reward your favorite performance and endlessly thank you for the constant support – said the artistic director of the festival, Ana Stojanoska.

It is a beautiful feeling of being tonight in Prilep – the city under Marko’s Towers, which with its soul and history reminds us every year what it means to believe in
The power of the stage, the word, the emotion, the silence, said the Minister of Culture
And tourism Zoran Sutkov, who declared the festival open.

-There is something sacred in that silence that descends before the curtain is raised. She
Silence… I know her. I have been carrying it within my first time I stopped on stage. That doesn’t
is just silence, it’s heartbeat, trembling, calling to be brave. To talk. Yes
The story is revived. I am convinced that there is no better way to start this
a solemn event, from recalling the words of a man whose character and deed stand
Behind the name of this festival, the father of the Macedonian Theater, Vojdan Chernodrinski,
who said: « Theater is a mirror of the people. » The festival is running under this year
The slogan « Laugh and dare! ». I know he’s not random and it’s much more than beautiful
phrase. He is a lesson, maybe a lesson. It concludes the essential message: that
The theater, even when we make fun of us, speaks seriously. And when he dares us, it becomes
a means of change – said Lutkov.

The festival sends us a strong and simple message – that laughter is power and courage
Need. The theater has always known how to unite both – to make us laugh, but to
He awakened us. To remind us how much we are human, vulnerable and strong at the same time.
This festival is much more than a cultural event. He is the heart of the summer in Prilep.
He brings life in the streets, talks on plays, full terraces, new acquaintances,
Guests from all over the country and beyond. He makes an economic contribution but more important –
It brings spirit and pride, said Prilep Mayor Borce Jovcheski. He’s them
Post the awards of the laureates.

The festival begins today at the « Dramolet » program in which young
Dramatic authors will have the opportunity to promote with their works, to meet
Directors of theaters and other professionals from the theater world. The idea is yes
The new drama to bring as much as possible to the theater scenes in the country.

Tonight’s program of the festival is the National Theater of Bitola with the play
« Black Seed » by Tashko Georgievski, directed by Andrei Cvetanovski at 7 pm in
Cultural Center. The roles are interpreted by: Martin Mircevski, Ognen Drangovski,
Vasko Mavrovski, Nikola Stefanov, Petar Spirovski, Nikola Projcevski, Hari Mihajlovski, Aleksandar Stefanovski, Petar Gorko, Borce Djakovski, Zivko
Borisovski and others.

The monodrama with actor Igor Angelov, « All the Most Beautiful », comes from 9 pm,
What will be played in the Gallery in « Marko Cepenkov ». The play is on « OHO
Production ”and is directed by Dejan Projkovski.