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Vedrana Rudan

“Olivera Baljak displayed, in short, all the splendor of talent and stage maturity. To explain this, it should be said that Baljak dances, sings, howls like a dog, but above all acts: portraying herself, me, you, every woman you know or will just meet. All the sorrows and some joys from 60 years of life and all the fears of what is yet to come… The protagonist carries her emotions, but also all the characters that have been inscribed in her over the course of her life, giving many of them stature and voice: her father, her first landlady and her husband, the oncologist who treated her sister, her daughter, women who are victims of violence, the presenter of new dishes. At the same time, she is in constant dialogue with the imaginary society on the stage and the audience. In short, if you haven’t loved monodrama so far, you will love it with Olivera Baljak.”

Tatjana Sandalj, HRT Radio Rijeka