A co-production of the CNT in Zagreb, Pandur Theaters and Maribor 2012 - European capital of culture
Premiere October 14, 2011
The famous novel about families and their lives during war and peace that emerged from the pen of the great Russian writer Leo N. Tolstoy, does not only chronicle Russia during the Napoleonic wars, the love of the beautiful Natasha Rostova, the grief and sorrow of Andrei Bolkonsky, Pyotr (Pierre) Bezukhov and numerous other characters, but it also speaks about the sufferings and hopes, yearnings and pain of people caught in the net of great historical events. Irrational war devastations are in counterpoint to the scenes in Moscow and St. Petersburg in which we follow families whose lives will be permanently altered. The everlasting re-thinking about the meaning of love, murder, faith and death are raised from the perspective of numerous characters with whom we sympathise from the very first sentence. In Darko Lukic’s dramatisation and Tomaz Pandur’s stage direction, this masterpiece of world literature, that includes almost the entire drama ensemble, will open the Drama season.
