Be careful with your dreams

Premiere of the most popular comedy of the Serbian playwright Branislav Nusic took place at the Maria Zankovetska National Theater.

The play Pani Ministrova (The Cabinet Minister’s Wife) was staged by a well-known director Alla Babenko (artist – Natalia Tarasenko). In the play, a family, well-hardened with tiresome daily routine, all of a sudden receives the status of a ministerial wife. However, the endurable and stable Ziwka – main character of the play (Liubov Borovska) turns out to be totally helpless in the face of challenges of her new position and her own naive faith in its lifelong significance.

In the siege of her family members and unknown relatives, and also those who call themselves family since not so long ago, led by a professional counterfeiter (Uncle Wasa acted by Stepan Hlova and Yevhen Fedorchenko), Ziwka is going in circles, getting further away from her home, becomes ridiculous, and causes no more sympathy.

The playwright once confessed about his shortcomings: “He laughed at both flaws and virtues because people often consider the ugliest of their flaws to be virtues. He also laughed both at the high and mighties and at the humiliated since the dignitaries are often more foul that those they humiliate. He laughed at both nonsense and at wise things because human wisdom is often a collection of human stupidity.”

Between the events in the play by Nusic and the audience that came to the theater there is almost a hundred years of time difference, but the audience find so many associations and reasons for laughing, as if adding to this stage story something from their own experience. Indeed, in the ever changing world some things remain the same and the most difficult has always been the test of power. Thus, be careful with your dreams because they may come true!

Next performance of The Cabinet Minister’s Wife will be held on February 20.