Theatre
Парите се отепувачка
Not translated into English
Risto Krle · 1938
Synopsis
After twenty years of work in America, a son returns to his homeland with the money he has earned. His parents, who raised him, no longer recognise him. On this failed recognition is built a drama of manners about the insatiable desire to have, in which chance and fate drive the action, and in which labour emigration, the lot of so many families in the country, weighs on each of the characters.
Context
The author had the story from a peasant who came to his workshop in Podgradec to look for shoes for a dead man. Begun in 1932, the play was finished in the summer of 1937 and premiered at the Royal Theatre in Skopje on 27 December 1938, the first play given in Macedonian on that stage. It has five acts. The National Theatre of Bitola made it one of its most widely attended productions, and critics today read in it a mirror of emigration.
Who it is for
In Macedonian, a play in five acts, with no French translation. It is best to know that the very simple subject rests entirely on a missed recognition.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the best-known dramatic work of the interwar period in Macedonia, and the most universal of its author's works.