Following the successful 33^rd edition of the International Theatre Festival MOT, the Youth Cultural Centre in the period between Sep, 19 and Sep, 26 is continuing the search for the best from the theatre productions.

    As in MOT’s previous edition the main accent is put on the revolutionary and courageous aesthetics, which within itself carry the essentiality of the contemporary theatre. The performances are conjoined into the Festival’s motto “Your Mirror”. About this year’s programme, the selector of the 34th edition of the International Theatre Festival MOT, Mr. Damir Domitriovik – Kos says: “We can steal something from the past, but from the future of which we are a bit afraid, we can not steal a thing. The desire for justifying, the argumentation of the possible mistakes or the search for an example in the prominent characters from the past grows. The contemporary media and “media’s pornography” are our “great” products, which allow us an admission in other people’s lives or they give us a chance to justify ourselves publicly. Where does that desire, the need for a public justification, the desire to peek into other people’s lives and sins come from, when occasionally we would love to run away from ourselves? The answer does not always have a social and political background; generally it is dissatisfaction from the person’s tiny world that warns about the inconsistent human spirit. The theatre maximally uses its immediacy to the viewers and the world put on stage. It absorbs the person into it, by which he/she not only identifies himself/herself but also participates in another life. . .sinful or unordinary, punished or awarded, happy or sad. . .   at the end of the play it (the theatre) leaves us with the judgment, dilemmas, worries. . . about the performance and ourselves. MOT’s 34th edition “wanders” through the lives of the prominent characters from the past, Middle Ages, the end of the previous century, into the contemporary reality, having a prostituting desire for analyzing the intimate lives of unknown persons or the scandals that surround us. The performances offer us a bond with the past and the future within a present frame, mirror reflection of ourselves and the society . . . a catharsis journey into other life.”

   During those 8 days of the Festival, we will have the opportunity to follow 15 performances from Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Switzerland, Montenegro, France and Macedonia. Also within the frames of this year’s edition of the MOT Festival, a great number of theatre workshops will be held by conspicuous theatre creators from Europe and Macedonia. One of the accents of the 34^th edition of the International Theatre Festival MOT is the opening performance Cassandra, directed by Slobodan Milatovic, a project in co-production with: the Festival Ex-Ponto, Ljubljana, Slovenia; the Festival Teuta, Kotor, Montenegro;   Serbian National Theatre and the Festival Infant, Novi Sad, Serbia; the Festival MOT and City Theatre Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia. The same performance will open the following festivals: Teuta, Kotor, Montenegro; and Infant, Novi Sad, Serbia. Cassandra also opened the Festival Ex-Ponto, Ljubljana, Slovenia.   
                                                                                                            
   The participation of the Theater Showinisten, 3raum-anatomietheater, Austria, with the performance Pension F, directed by the controversial theatre director Hubsi Kramar, is one of the favourites of this year’s programme. The piece called Pension F (F - having a meaning of bed and breakfast in German), satirizes the media’s hypocrisy. “The victims make profit” is the reality interesting for the media. Through these media and their scandal stories, as in this case the story about Jozef Fritzl, the victims are “raped” and abused time and time again, as long as their story sells.  It presents our great pleasure and honour to present you the director Silviu Purcarete, one of the most prominent directors of today. His performances are part of the most prestigious Festivals such as: the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, where one of his performances was staged in august this year. On the MOT Festival Purcarete will present himself with the performance “Pantagruel’s sister-in-law”, a performance from the National Theatre Radu Stanca Sibiu, Romania, which many critics have called it a perfect symphony.