performance
Tuesday, 30 September 2025, 7 pm
Filodrammatica, large hall (Korzo 28/1, Rijeka)
ZOOM + IGRALKE FESTIVAL
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✺ Tuesday, 30 September 2025, 19:00 | Filodrammatica
How I Learned to Drive
Paula Vogel (text), Tara Manić (director)
– play
Photo: Marko Stojanović
‘How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel is a text that many refer to as Lolita written from a female perspective – from the point of view of the grown-up Li’l Bit, who recalls her childhood. While working on it in the intimate chamber space of Hartefakt House, together with actress Marta Bogosavljević and actor Svetozar Cvetković, as well as all our collaborators, we sought to find a gentle scenic language for this complex, deep, and delicate text – which does not even attempt to compete with the reality we live in every day. That reality is so much more terrifying, happening all around us, and seems discouragingly unstoppable – so, through this play, we tried to go back, step by step, exploring an issue that most people who read this text have encountered at some point in their lives.
The relationship between these two characters, Li’l Bit and her uncle, is full of ambivalence: love, tenderness, curiosity, teaching, trust, the formation of authority, mistakes, and consequently: crossing boundaries, grooming, and harm, leading all the way to self-destruction. The great value of this text lies in the author’s empathy for both characters, opening an important, polemical discussion about causes, not just consequences, of such a relationship. This is a play about forgiveness, without the awareness that forgiveness is impossible. I hope that through this performance, we will make people more awake and at least a little braver – I believe that would be more than enough in a society where we make them ashamed and silent.’
– Tara Manić, Director
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How I Learned to Drive
Text: Paula Vogel
Director: Tara Manić
Translation: Ivana Đurić Paunović
Text Adaptation: Vuk Bošković
Cast: Svetozar Cvetković and Marta Bogosavljević
Set/Costume Design: Zorana Petrov
Music: Vladimir Pejković
Lighting Design: Nemanja Calić and Zorana Petrov
Public Relations: Slavica Pešić
Photo and Video Production: Marko Stojanović
Poster Design: Marko Stojanović
Technical Assistants: Nemanja Calić, Bojan Durutović
Executive Production: Selena Pleskonjić and Aleksandra Lozanović
Production: Heartefact, March 2024
Premiere: March 17, 2024, Heartefact House, Bulevar Despota Stefana 7, Belgrade
Awards: Best Theater Performance Concept Award – 52nd INFANT – International festival of alternative and new theater, 2025; Best Actor Award (Grand Prix) – Svetozar Cvetković for the role of the Uncle, Golden Grain for Best Young Actress – Marta Bogosavljević for the role of Li’l Bit – 9th Bucini Days Festival, 2024; Award for the best play of the festival, Award for the best actress of the festival to Marta Bogosavljević, Award for the best actor of the festival to Svetozar Cvetković – 16th International Festival of Actors in Banja Luka, 2024; “Jurislav Korenić” Award for Best Director: Tara Manić, “Dragan Jovičić” Award for Best Actor: Svetozar Cvetković, “Zan Marolt” Award for Best Young Actress : Marta Bogosavljević, “Avazov zmaj” award for the best performance of the festival – 8th International Chamber Theater 55 Festival “Days of Jurislav Korenić” in Sarajevo, 2024
Rijeka, 28 September – 4 October, 2025
Organized by: Drugo more & Kolektiv Igralke
Partners: Hrvatski kulturni dom na Sušaku, KUC Kalvarija
Supported by: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Rijeka – Administrative department of education and schooling, culture, sports and youth
Drugo more is a beneficiary of the funding from the Kultura Nova Foundation.
Drugo more is a beneficiary of institutional support from the National Foundation for Civil Society Development for the stabilization and/or development of the association.
Kolektiv Igralke is a beneficiary of the funding from the Kultura Nova Foundation.
Festival concept: Davor Mišković (Drugo more), Sendi Sotlar, Vanda Velagić (Kolektiv Igralke)
Production: Barbara Babačić, Ivana Katić, Dubravko Matanić (Drugo more), Vanda Velagić (Kolektiv Igralke)
Technical support: Cyclorama d.o.o.
Design: Ana Tomić & Marino Krstačić-Furić
Photography: Tanja Kanazir
Media partner: Kulturpunkt.hr
Info: info@drugo-more.hr