Elvis Bosnjak playwright - plays biography information

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Synopsis:

The word around the prison is that someone is offering 10 000 euro for the murder of Father, accused of a dual infanticide and the rape of his daughter. After seven days in solitary, where he was moved because he asked for protection, Father returns to his cell the night before he is to be released. He asks a fellow prisoner to give him a hidden knife so that he can commit suicide. The prisoners are suspicious that he will use the knife to kill one of them so as to be able to remain in jail, where he has at least some security. What happens if a criminal like Father starts to repent? Can he forgive himself, can anyone forgive him, can he find comfort in faith?

the relationship between crime, repentance and forgiveness

Synopsis:

Two married couples find themselves in the middle of a love foursome. At the impossibility of achieving a real relationship, each of them creates an entirely imaginary relationship, thus living more in fancy with the person they don't have than the person they're bound to in real life. As a result, they don't notice their partner is living the same problem and that there are more things connecting them than separating them. Their love turns into paranoid fear because it represents the loss of the right to love, the right to live. Their obsession turns into a loss of identity. Becoming aware of the person they share their real life with would come as a healing conclusion.

Synopsis:

In a series of scenes, which are not set by number of order, Sem and Rita (or as many Sems and Ritas as you like), love each other, grow older, yearn for each other, balance on that thin line between love and friendship, want children they can not have, are abandoned by their children, wait for each other, become strangers, divorce, find each other again after a long wait, jump around in the clouds.

Synopsis:

The mother of Stipe, Nikola, Jerko and Seka dies during the family farmyard pig-slaughtering activities. Fascination with their mother was what had kept them together. Now both their emotional and material world falls apart. The house in which they were raised has to be divided. Half of the house goes to their maternal aunt, Strina, who has been mourning her dead son for thirteen years. He had died saving Jerko's life. Stipe had been standing on the river bank but had not jumped in to save his brother. Nikola wants to give up his part of the house to Jerko - his unmarried brother who is being destroyed by silence, painful competition with Strina, and his somewhat irrational feeling of guilt for the death of her son - and Seka, their divorced sister who had cared for their mother. Seka marries Mladen, an intellectual who has returned from the city, drawn back by his love of the land and the vine. Alarming news reaches them from Seka's son, at university in Zagreb. Persuaded by his wife, Stipe tries to pay back his debt to Nikola with his part of the house. Jerko and Strina stay on in the house, enmeshed in their shadows and guilt. This is a story about good people whose misfortune stems from their not having shed the tears they should have, who have been raised to suffer without tears and to be quietly unhappy, to love sparingly and to hide love as if they are hiding something shameful.

The disintegration of a village family