Ohrid, 17 August 2025 (MIA) – After a premiere performance of the play "The Life of Provincial Playboys after WWII or We Want What's Not Ours and Won't Give Away What's Ours" in Budva, the Drama Theatre Skopje co-production will have its Macedonian premiere at the 65th Ohrid Summer festival on Sunday.

After a four-performance run in Montenegro, the Macedonian audience will have the opportunity to watch this entertaining and witty comedy based on the eponymous work by Dušan Jovanović and directed by Croatian author Ivan Penović.

The play is a co-production project of the Drama Theatre Skopje, Drama Theatre Belgrade, City Theatre Ljubljana and “City Theatre” Budva, in honour of Dušan Jovanović who passed away five years ago.

According to the program note, the comedy stands out in the early work of Dušan Jovanović, as it stays fairly faithful to the form of a comedy, It was written in 1972, during a period of turbulent historical movements and in the spirit of the "Sexual Revolution" and the "Spring of 1968".

"It is a whirlpool of joyful eroticism, of youth, of unbridled passion that never gets satisfied. But the undertones also reveal emptiness, banality and egoism of a society that is constantly chasing pleasure." 

The cast hails from the four regional theatres, including Lazar Hristov, Julita Kropec, Marko Gvero, Sonja Stambolzhioska, Lazar Nikolić, Vukašin Jovanović, Nejc Jezernik, Marjan Naumov, and Jovana Spasić.

The play will be performed at the Centre for Culture "Grigor Prlichev" at 9 p.m. 

Photo: Ohrid Summer