My new poster design for the play "Man's Teardrop" by JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia.
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"Man's Teardrop" is a collage drama based on the motifs of four one-act
plays, and one short story by A. P. Chekhov. The actors of this theater
play are defeated in love, lost in time and imprisoned in an inn during
an apocalyptic storm that directs them to each other and incites both
conflicts and reminiscences, soaked in the writer's all-pervading irony.
The least common content
of the selected texts are the breakdowns of the male heroes that bring
them to tears, which are still seen today as a sign of inappropriate
weakness, and therefore exposed to stigma and self-restraint.
The
elements of comedy are, a natural consequence of the poetics of the
everyday and ordinary, but also a progressive and always modern, and
certainly contemporary, Chekhov's comment on the banality and dullness
of male machoism and patriarchy as a social order. And that storm, as a
metaphor for the chaos, tumult and wars of today, represents all the
turmoil that inevitably comes to the surface, if tears are suppressed,
and pride and shame due to male "weakness" are encouraged.
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