Charuga

Charuga, a comedy by the Croatian writer, playwright and translator Ivan Kušan, is a superbly witty text about the outlaw Charuga, or (as the writer himself stresses out in the subtitle) a painful, but authentic tragedy of Mister Juraj Ardonjak from the village of Feričanci in Slavonia, who was murdered under the most unusual circumstances because of the love that his unfaithful and lecherous wife felt for the surveyor Boris Možbolt, which led her to hire the chieftan Jovo Stanistavljević called Charuga to take his life; in which you can see the unfathomable evil of the above mentioned wife and many others, the blindness of greed, lust and other vices, as well as the disgraceful end of almost all villains. In its fourth première, the Drama of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb will for the first time stage a work by Ivan Kušan, thus keeping up the tradition of performing the best Croatian texts on the stage of the biggest theatre house in Croatia.