The month is just probable. I actually wanted to place this in august of 1964, but the piece was written in 1966. There was a poster advertising something called "EVARAS", who is "the yugoslav Giulietta Massina", an equally unknown idea, who would perform "At no price, at no price"... all totally confusing, but it was dirt cheap and we didn't know what else to do, so let's go see what will it be. Don't remember who went, I guess Kale, Bakračevi and a few more guys.
There was she, a thin blonde, alone on the stage. It would be years, perhaps as late as1971, until someone would coin the term "monodrama", but this was it, ahead of its time. She did the whole act alone, at an audience who didn't quite know what they came to see, and of course there were some catcalls from the audience. At some point, she stopped the performance, holding a broom in her hand, and told the audience to just stop it, then either stay and watch if they want, or leave if they won't. Few did leave, and when they were gone she went on.
That's all I remember about this. Apart from sitting through a theatrical piece (written by some guy along with Miloš Radivojević, whose first movie would be somewhat important to me five years later) and not quite knowing what just happened.
Beatles said they were more popular than Jesus. As far as I'm concerned, they always were, don't see what's he noise about. Not that I was any kind of biting beatlist, I even caught myself supporting some stuff I read in the newspapers, but I liked the music. I knew enough of music theory, from the time I learned to play accordion, to see how wide they swung, how much of nonstandard, even unglued tricks they pulled, weird transitions, things which were simply not done, and they did them and it sounded well.
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