My Husband
The dramatic structure of the theater play My Husband is built from two interwoven materials, namely, the dramatization of the six stories (Soup, Empty Nest, Adulterer, Eighth March, Geni and Lile) and the documentary material derived from the author's monologues. The actions/situations of Bužarovska's stories, as well as the documentary part (the author's monologues) are thematically firmly connected to the climate and time in which they take place, without being based on current political issues. The stories and the author's monologues aim to encourage overcoming stereotypes and prejudices, and openly insist on a clash between the traditional and the contemporary. Now, today, we still need to face the present by revising the past.
The feature-documentary approach, as a genre determination and a dramaturgical-directorial concept, is omnipresent on European theater stages, but is a fragile/rare example on the Macedonian theater stage. The feature-documentary approach offers a completely new, different theater experience, which provokes strong emotions and confrontation with oneself and from oneself, with oneself towards the other, from the other towards oneself. It is a rare collective act that is not superficially sentimental and pathetic, but on the contrary is deeply empathetic and humane. The presence of theatrical spontaneity (in the actor and the viewer) leads to liberation and opens space for a different theatrical perspective.
Collage of Rumena Bužarovska's short stories and author's monologues