ZENIT
""Zenit - the history of one rapture" is the story of the fate of Ljubomir Micić and avant-garde artists from the beginning of this century, most of whom ended their lives and their work in tragic circumstances. Zenitism is an oath, loud and clear, to the new man, to the new age, to creation, to art, to youth. Zenitism means: not to live by duty, but to live by inspiration. [1994]
Angels or spirits of the dead visit old Micić and draw him into their dance that represents his life. Through the life of Ljubomir Micić, the play ZENIT deals with the fate of avant-garde ideas in the former Yugoslavia as well as in Europe. The secret name of the play is "The History of One Rapture".
In Chinese opera, a young actor puts on a beard in full view of the audience and becomes an old man or takes an umbrella and becomes a geisha. In this performance, the actress becomes Marc Chagall by wearing blue socks, while the next moment, dancing barefoot, she becomes the dancer Maga Magazinović. Other "angels" who come from these "dark times", opposing the ruling currents, are: Mayakovsky, Ve Poljanski, Moni de Bully, Marinetti. In the end, these angel-ghosts leave to enter someone else's life story, leaving behind a girl with a ball and an aged Micić who said NO to all times.
"Played in several languages, with a careful synopsis, this piece is universal in its reflections and the rich complexity of their performance. One can only admire the perfect discipline of the body and the versatility of the techniques they completely master: dance, music, mime, acrobatics and language."
– The Herald Tribune (04.11.1997)
"This play is a sparkling patchwork of music and singing, the skull scene from Hamlet, swirling tango and flamboyant marionettes, hurried whispers, sudden declamations. The play is mostly translated into English. It is a strange and hypnotic, dignified, mysterious elegy to times gone by, a defiant play in the face of darkness."
– Peter Whitebrook (The Scotsman, 1/09/1994)