TRADITION IN THE FUNCTION OF MODERNITY
TRADITION IN THE FUNCTION OF MODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: Starting with the post-modernistic, or neo-historical determination of tradition as an open structure, this paper will focus on The interpretation of the structure of the drama writing of two exceptional Macedonian play-writers, Rusomir Bogdanovski and Bogomil Gjuzel.. Modernity, in this context, is by no means limited to the 1970s: the years when the Macedonian theatre brought to light and established an interdiscursive relation with its own tradition. Bogdanovski`s and Gjuzel’s playwriting procedures, by being in dialogue with tradition, take an activist attitude towards modernity. Looking at it from a contemporary point of view, they actually resemanticise certain aspects of tradition, for example the notion of the national hero or reshaping biblical motifs in response to contemporary sociopolitical phenomena. The subject of interest in our study is precisely this relation to tradition as a medium through which it is possible to address the anomalies and deformities of the present moment, tradition as a pattern for an engaged, political theatre. For that purpose we will turn to the analysis of Gjuzel’s play Adam and Eve and Bogdanovski’s play, A Farce About Brave Naume; or How to Make Heroes and How to Take Advantage of Them”.

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