Theatre
Darkness
Црнила
Kole Čašule · 1960
Synopsis
Sofia, 1921. In the Hristov house, Macedonian exiles are preparing the murder of Gjorče Petrov, one of the leaders of their movement. The play, in four acts, shows less the deed than what precedes it: the betrayal being plotted among Macedonians, the executioners and their victim, and an almost absurd character, fallen into a world he does not know.
Context
The play draws on the real assassination of Gjorče Petrov, killed in Sofia in 1921 by members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization; its author was one of the first to write openly about these “Macedonian darkness”, the betrayals and fratricides of the movement. A thesis drama, it condemns moral decline and the killing of brother by brother. The National Theatre of Skopje performed it in 1973 in Bratislava, František Lipka translated it into Slovak in 1982, and the theatre of Prilep staged it again in 2025.
Who it is for
A drama in four acts, in Macedonian; no French translation, but a Slovak version published in Vojvodina.
Prizes and reception
Counted among his best-known plays, it is still staged more than sixty years after its creation.
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