Synopsis
A group of convicts from Lepoglava took part in a prison theatre-production based on W. Shakespeare's «Midsummer Night's Dream». The production was the result of improvisations on prison life. In the beginning, it was meant to be performed inside the prison, but it exceeded its primary purpose of a prison workshop and was shown in several Croatian theatres.
How to face the day? How to fulfil the emptiness of life? And is it possible to avoid the gloomy everyday life? There is no society or a system, in any culture, that doesn’t – after all – put its members into a defined context of its borders, into its routine. Some try to defy this through criminal. They search for their path on the other side of the law; they resist the system by breaking the rules of society - in this way trying to break out of the limitations that the environment they grew up in is offering. However wrong – both in moral and legal way – this is their attempt to fulfil their lives. But – isn’t this also a system with its own gloomy everyday life with its own routine, they tried so hard to escape from…
How to face the day? How to fulfil the emptiness of life? And is it possible to avoid the gloomy everyday life? There is no society or a system, in any culture, that doesn’t – after all – put its members into a defined context of its borders, into its routine. Some try to defy this through criminal. They search for their path on the other side of the law; they resist the system by breaking the rules of society - in this way trying to break out of the limitations that the environment they grew up in is offering. However wrong – both in moral and legal way – this is their attempt to fulfil their lives. But – isn’t this also a system with its own gloomy everyday life with its own routine, they tried so hard to escape from…
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