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Mediterranean Theater Festival – Purgatorie

The cultural milieu of Montenegro certainly does not lack festivals, and the Center for Culture from Tivat will not significantly affect the quality of festival events, especially in the summer season. But I am sure that the Mediterranean theater festivities – Purgatoria, conceived and conceived in this way, will valorize the cultural heritage of not only Tivat, not only Boka, but also the entire Mediterranean in a special artistic way.

It belongs to the Center for Culture and the city of Tivat, both by right of merit due to the inheritance of customs and traditions, as well as by the production achieved in the last decade. If the Center for Culture from Tivat was the initiator and producer of theatrical performances from the threatened rich history and tradition of Boka, if the Center opened a shower chest full of history and legends, none of which had been previously woven into theater art, if the Center was created and matured, and much further than Tivat and Boka, Katarina Šparović and Đulsa, and Don Gigo and Krkot and Šakot and Betulica, as the audience affectionately named her, and D-minor and Innominato, then it is right and logical that from this year Tivat will have its own festival: the Mediterranean theater festivities of Purgatoria.

In the heat of August nights under the Mediterranean stars, from this year theater lovers will watch Purgatorie, unique in its own way, and recognizable from fishermen’s fights, taverns, fake merchants, rich people, vagabonds and carnivals….

All to get to know the codes of a past time in the Mediterranean, a time from which we have something to learn, to get to know that peculiar world of unique spirit and culture, that unusual collision of civilizations, customs and cultures, and finally, the age-old coexistence in these areas, which even today is the envy of normal people.

I know that the theater cannot wake up the world, but I know that the theater can make the world more beautiful and life more pleasant. I believe and want the audience to believe that theater is more powerful than life.

And that’s why the festival of the Mediterranean theater festival – Purgatorie in Tivat.

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PURGATORIE MEDITERRANEAN THEATER FESTIVAL

A story that concerns us – IDEM, NEC UNUM

The Mediterranean is not a geography. Its boundaries have never been drawn by anyone, neither in space nor in time. They are neither economic, nor historical, nor state nor national. That is why the Mediterranean is not history but duration. The Mediterranean is a mosaic of past and present, Greek philosophy and culture, Roman law and the republic, ancient Arab wisdom and Provence, Venice and the South Slavs on the Adriatic, and Dubrovnik and Boka.

But the Mediterranean did not create its Mediterranean identity only on its shores, but much wider and longer to the north, east and west. That’s why he was able to adorn himself with a sentence

«IDEM, NEC UNUM» – DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS.

States and religions, democracies and dictatorships, people’s tribunes, scientists without knowledge and “it turns around”, believers and ungodly, artists and dilettantes, temples and cathedrals, history and legend, resisted divisions, united people, not divided… civilizations permeated each other in encounters and collisions, thus creating a multi-ethnic and multicultural world that is a plus and not a minus.

Cities by the sea, ports and ships, merchants and vagabonds, administrations and fortresses, charters and coats of arms, flags and seals, gentlemen and plebs, pirates and sailors, casemates and infirmaries, all this is the heritage of the Mediterranean.

The Mediterranean was and is a world unto itself, but the Mediterranean was and is also the center of the world.

This is the premise of the Festival of the Mediterranean Theater of Purgatoria, established by the Decision of the Council of the JU Center for Culture Tivat, with the task of presenting, within the framework of the cultural theater offer of the Center for Culture from Tivat, to fans and the profession of the theater, in a festival way, a distinctive and special type of theater creation, created from the beginning of the theater to the present day, that is, from ancient tragedy to today’s modern drama, both in theaters that had and still have the geographical location of the Mediterranean, as well as those that nurtured the repertoire and affirmed this type of theater piece.

The Festival of the Mediterranean Theater – Purgatory was founded five years ago with the desire and intention to offer the local audience, and above all the people who are on vacation, the charm and beauty of the Mediterranean theater in the full sense of the word during the summer tourist season. After the first trial and four competition festivals, I can proudly say that the establishment of the Festival was a real cultural move, that we very positively surprised and delighted the theater audience, that the number of registered plays for the festival increases year by year, so this year we had a play from Italy in the official competition for the first time.