LAUGHTER AND TEARS OF THE OLD SPLIT
Drama
Ivan Kovačić

1 hour and 40 minutes

LAUGHTER AND TEARS OF THE OLD SPLIT

Premiered at the Split Summer Festival in 2010, the play Laughter and Tears of the Old Split has become one of the most beloved theatrical performances in recent years. It exudes the spirit of bygone times while addressing universal, civilizationally significant questions. The heroes of intimate chronicles depicting everyday life in Split return to the stage at Sustipan this year.

LAUGHTER AND TEARS OF THE OLD SPLIT

With great affection and without embellishment, Ivan Kovačić's diligent pen rescued Split from the oblivion of the early 20th century, spanning thousands of pages. Through a series of prose sketches, he gave us an authentic testimony of a time and people living in a vastly different reality. Not because they were poor, uneducated, or technologically less advanced than us today, but because they lived by principles. The play Tears and Laughter of the Old Split offers an opportunity to pause, remember, and move forward with the awareness that the principles of those people were not mere emptiness but a way of survival and nurturing a cultural and urban identity, which we now witness crumbling.
The old Split and its sensitive chronicler, Ivan Kovačić, have been neglected, even erased from our collective memory. That is why Laughter and Tears of the Old Split, directed by Goran Golovko, will compel us to pause and contemplate the kind of existence we are chasing while trying to escape our yesterdays.

Adaptation and dramatization

Olja Lozica

Director

Goran Golovko

Scenographer

Ivana Poljak

Costume designer

Marija Maca Žarak

Light designer

Zoran Mihanović

Sound designer Tomislav Luetić

Stage movement

Alen Čelić

Music collaborator

Nela Bujas Luketić

Language consultant

Jagoda Granić

Ivan Kovačić

Ratko Glavina

Baba Filomena Kovačić

Marija Šegvić

Did Petar Kovačić

Nenad Srdelić

Otac Špiro Kovačić

Vicko Bilandžić

Mater Marjeta Kovačić

Bruna Bebić

Brat Petra Kovačića

Trpimir Jurkić

Tet' Ane, žena Osibova

Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov

Frane Kovačić, brat Ivanov

Luka Čerjan

Stipe Bala, ridikul

Nikša Arčanin

Jovana Keperova

Nives Ivanković

Jozo Keper, Kando Gradelica, Vlaj, Vlasnik dućana, Svećenik

Zdeslav Čotić

Dujka, Marica Prlainka, Gospoja s kapelinon

Jasna Jukić

Franica, Majka Prlainka

Andrea Mladinić

Momak, Zermo, Bepo, Kapo o' škovacini, Fabjan Kaliterna, Dite o' dišpeta, Ćozot, Gospodin

Goran Marković