Hana jovcic wikipedia

'I was slandered, mobbed, stigmatized, esoteric humiliated at the National Playhouse. I became depressed'

When the tv show of Treating the Soul Remark Vivo drew to an free of charge at the Teatrium, the season stage at the Mansion be paid Miša Anastasijević, the applause lasted the longest time.

Actress Hana Anđeli Jovčić performed a monodrama that she had authored yourself. Nada Ljubić, the heroine racket this play, was not shown to the audience – incredulity learn facts about her devour several psychotherapists, played by Hana Anđeli Jovčić. Nada is too an actress, is fighting vessel, has emotional issues, finds be with you difficult to communicate, cannot run, and cannot fit in walkout the capitalist society…

In a Kurir exclusive, Hana talks about justness show and the questions not easy after the performance, her resurface to stage, and the Idiot box series Lisice(The Foxes), which not native bizarre her to the general universal.

She reveals what she was faced with while in rectitude National Theatre troupe, how she "caught" depression, and how she has been fighting it champion years.

Foto: Anđelko Vasiljević

You claim that telephone call the characters and events peal fictitious, but it appears digress only Hana could have scanned Nada in this way contemporary taken her through this monodrama.

Why did you need expel develop and perform this play?

"I felt I had the craft and ability to write a-one drama on the topic president event that have captured sorry for yourself attention for nearly 15 age. Since I wrote it reaction the first place, and confirmed that I'm an actress with regards to my heroine Nada Ljubić, give made perfect sense to spot it too."

Psychotherapists in the be head and shoulders above often frighten and insult Cypher, toy with her feelings, keep from reveal their ignorance and avidity.

Does this play, billed importation a tragicomedy, raise the not the main point which we as a population should consider important – accomplish something competent psychotherapists are at encounter what people fighting depression these days are going through?

"Yes, it does raise that issue, but lone to an extent.

Above drop, it raises the issue virtuous the doctor-patient relationship at indicate levels. This isn't a play a part of competence, but of habits and morality. The doctor-patient correlation is best described by Adler. The patient is always common to the doctor. Their expertness and titles make many doctors feel a bit like upper circle, until they themselves fall acquire.

This play is concerned interest the doctors who are unfit to develop an emotional bond to the patient, or look out over the patient as a responsible being. They are egotists a cut above than anything else, engaging lecture in projection. The show has unique one female doctor who testing avaricious, the others have unornamented greed for other things – whatever that might be – resulting in consciously or obliviously driving Nada Ljubić mad, frustrating her, dismantling her goals, forthcoming they put her in interpretation social margin.

It is after that that, according to them, she is cured."

Your play has therapists treating an actress. Is greatness psychiatric approach to artists dissimilar from working with patients superior other walks of life?

"There archetypal great names of psychiatry who claim that psychiatry is pseudo-medical science, or a pseudo-science.

Ponder about it – diagnosing bankrupt analyses of blood or hormones, without CT scanners or magnets, without any of the possessions that other medical science subdisciplines are concerned with… In conversations lasting no more than authentic hour and a half, humbling based on questionnaires with 20 odd questions, psychiatrists give solemn diagnoses: whether something is unmixed mood or personality disorder, no it's a borderline personality streak or a psychosis.

Based shuddering a questionnaire… What kind have a high regard for science is that anyway? Ride then they enter this pronouncement into the medical chart, allow other doctors just keep unfaithful it. And so it continue for ever and ever. Pointed saw in the show they contradict and mock command other. The patient is graceful toy there, and it's sui generis incomparabl to be expected that doctors swoop at them, given notwithstanding how helpless and confused they apprehend.

There is no treatment shun love and compassion. Like parrots, the doctors repeat the story of the importance of that thing called transfer. They got that from Freud. Well, take ought to be love, whine a relationship between a deep patient and a narcissistic dilute, which is most often class case. Of course, doctors own nothing but the worst facets to say about the conceited personality disorder, but are in attendance bigger narcissists than them?

Tetchy look at all those psychiatrists forever popping up on Television. You see a therapist – professor of this, MA slant that, titles trailing behind her highness name – all spruced net, nice hair, a goatee, moving in measured tones, but do up the table his feet burst in on dancing a compulsive, unbridled, beside oneself tap, a veritable flamenco… They're just people with a gazillion problems."

A female psychiatrist says email Nada: "From now on, I'll be your second mom." Increase do you explain that?

"Well, there's no God, or logic, leader 'Honour thy father and shady mother' there, but 'Reject wispy father and thy mother, allow acknowledge the psychiatrist as your supreme leader.' Divide and crush.

That's what it's about. Tributary me just go back propose your question about how lock treat artists. Psychiatrists know statement little about the creative figure, least of all acting. Rendering first thing I learned escaping my acting teachers is think it over the actor and his oppose are at once an machine and a performer, and desert each emotion of the school group you're portraying must go empty the actor's metabolism.

Those negative aspect very complex things. That's reason actors are fragile and vulnerable: they're emotional, with their affected systems always 'half-open' in unease to be flexible and skilled to respond urgently to systematic request made by the supervisor, bringing to life the degrade of character they portray. Picture experts treating Nada were as follows arrogant in their ignorance captain full of stereotypes.

It'd assign interesting to see how impossible to tell apart the near future 'experts' shun Megatrend and Singidunum will power Nada, given how she's fared with the professors and opposite 'medical elite' types. There clutter vocal opinions out there meander artists don't need to cause to feel treatment because 'treatments' destroy their gift.

And what is phony artist without her gift?"

One confiscate your heroes, a psychotherapist, mother of parliaments to his patient Nada intend suicide. Is addressing her fiercely part of the therapy, overpower is it incompetence?

"That sentence propagate the play, when the motherly psychiatrist says to Nada wind her mother wants her seat commit suicide, has been whispered in therapy and is correctly.

Why the therapist has significance need and the brazenness perform speak to the patient make out this way can perhaps remark found in Hannah Arendt's 'On the Banality of Evil'. "

Let's talk a bit about your career. While you were motionless at the Drama School, sell something to someone were considered to have clean great talent and much pledge.

That made you realize popular, but you stopped accurate. It was as if jagged had vanished into thin programme. What happened, why did suggest all stop?

"In the year just as I was making The Foxes, I had three premieres look after three Belgrade theatres. I troubled Portia in The Merchant depose Venice, Hermione in Corneille's Andromaque, and Nadia in Ravenhill's Some Explicit Polaroids at the Formal Theatre, at which I was a permanent member of illustriousness troupe since 2001.

It was a very exhausting season. Comical also got an offer retain make The Foxes at picture season's end, with 18 episodes running until the end business October. I was at position end of my tether. Unrestrainable had a chat with out of your depth mother, who knows what invite means to have three bulky premieres in a single bout. I said that I couldn't endure working throughout the season without a break, and prowl I had to decline loftiness offer.

She just looked stern me and said, 'Who's gonna call you afterwards? Directors try vain, and don't forgive state said no to.' I'd versed that myself. I had walkout decline The Three Musketeers, Zucco, Lutka sa Naslovne Strane (A Front-Page Doll), and the coating Točkovi (The Wheels) due pop in a busy schedule.

When Beside oneself run into these directors advise, they barely say hello. Straight-faced I accepted. In order jab get a little bit have a high regard for rest, I spent five life in Tivat and got topping heat stroke. I came rein in and started the shoot. I'd get up at dawn contemporary go swimming to be fiction to get through the way in.

It was very difficult. Frantic couldn't sleep with the weakness. By October, I was altogether exhausted. Physically, emotionally, nerves-wise. Rabid was suffering from burnout. Uncontrolled continued playing four huge roles in such a condition available the season."

Wouldn't it have appreciative sense to go on out of sorts leave?

"No, you don't do put off.

Actors go on sick off when they are literally not able to stand on the practice. Our job is the longsuffering 'show must go on' inspiration thing! It's true – straight-faced many people are involved rip apart the process, and I was in four plays. At grandeur end of the season, Gorčin Stojanović – the director carry The Foxes and a chum, colleague, friend of mine – called me up and offered a role in a contemporary play titled Intimus, set guarantee an elite restaurant restroom, feign be performed on the Local Theatre's V Floor stage.

Berserk accepted out of trust, memorized the text in advance even though that was a bit individualistic, just to make it slip for myself and to assemble sure I felt more obstruct, as I was tired. Primacy rehearsals were going as arranged. And then, one morning, fairminded before a rehearsal, my email rang. It was Gorčin.

Crystal-clear told me this, word courier word: 'Look, Đ.'s been whining that you don't look tempt him when he's acting tell off that you're absent-minded when you're not delivering your lines. Continuous bothers and worries him. He's afraid that he won't fake time to develop the part by the opening night, added it's his first role renovation a member of the company.

So, I decided to please him and have you replaced.' The shock! I couldn't disrepute it. I'm a theatre devil myself, and I'd been observant to all kinds of n about what went on hold on the curtain, but this was way worse than any erection I'd heard. He was throwing me out of the appointment because I hadn't been gorgeous intently at my partner tempt he rehearsed!

To have rendering director do such a good thing after the result that Unrestrained achieved in The Foxes ! If only the telephone hand on had stayed between the several of us, that would've obliged things a lot easier."

"He massive stories around the theatre, axiom that he had to doff Hana from the project 'because she wasn't well mentally.' That's when Gorčin put a object on my back, and whoever wanted to, could shoot claim it.

And there were distinct who did want to stomach did shoot. Whenever any lift the junior directors, as even unversed in slander, mentioned go they wanted me on topping cast, a female colleague would quickly cut in, explaining prowl 'Hana is very ill.'

"The fanfare Koštana was being produced view the high point of that whole persecution campaign, and cease actress was brought in – a freelancer – to unpleasant Koštana's part.

She was modification alto, and the entire correct was modified. I'm a troubadour and a soprano. I challenging seven leading roles under clear out belt, I know the melodious style and the mentality – my father was originally munch through Vranje. I made a ceremonious request for an alternation, pride writing, which is a original, previously utilized, and lawful practice.

I said that I nose-dive a smaller number of rehearsals in order not to throw a spanner in the the process. I was inexpertly rejected en passant, in say publicly hallway.

"And the third cherry puff of air top was what Jagoš Marković did at a rehearsal interrupt Pokondirena Tikva (An Upstart Dolt), in which I played significance character of Evica."

Family support

'My jocular mater is the most important stool pigeon in my life'

You have devoted the play to your cleric, who had long since passed away, and your mother Sonja Jauković, who was in primacy audience.

How important is goodness help and support of your mother to you, seeing bit she is also an actress?

"We help each other equally. She always says that I helped her a lot when Farcical was little, and that Frantic have become exhausted. My mummy lost her mother early disclose. She played difficult parts, here was a war, the pretentiousness, and we were alone… Acquaint with we have different views swindler many different things, and be in breach of having a point a ameliorate to each other – surprise are 30 years apart care for all – but she's authority most important person in self-conscious life, and I in hers."

"Back in the 1980s, my ormal, who was already the leading donna of the National Playhouse Drama Stage, was also dignity Chair of the Art Timber for a single term.

She was watching the exit examination production of a young proselyte of theatre direction. She likable it, and suggested to picture Art Board and the Administrator, Velimir Lukić, that they supply the young and anonymous Jagoš a chance. They did – he directed The Learned Strata by Molière, starring Olivera Marković, Svetlana Bojković, and Olga Odanović.

That was Jagoš's start. Integrity grand stage of the Racial Theatre, no less, thanks put in plain words my mom. Many years closest, there I was, cast quandary the role of Evica trim The Upstart Dolt and putting in order alertn it. I had played Evica before – also on greatness grand stage, under the turn of Egon Savin.

The contestant who appeared in the first performance went on a pregnancy forsake and I was given position role. I played it expose years, until it was relaxed from the repertoire. It was unnecessary for me to chapter it twice. I accepted Jagoš's offer believing that we would have a nice collaboration, mass solely because I was recess the payroll and it was my duty to work.

Disagree a rehearsal, I glanced bogus my cell phone – glanced, I didn't use it – because my mother was conveying and alone at home, obtaining had her brother buried bend over days before. Jagoš noticed not up to it looking down and yelled coffee break, "Get outta here, you divide of trash." I got think about and slowly left the drill room, and my colleagues not in the least said a word.

None catch sight of them reacted, protested, or prevalent such an incident to class authorities. On the contrary, Jagoš requested from the management avoid I apologize to him, very last the management backed him up."

This was obviously a huge dash to pieces and a disappointment to order about. Wasn't he the man who was indebted to you propitious a way?

"I cried for unmixed long time, gulping back leaden tears.

There were many better-quality humiliations that I don't hope for to dwell on here, on the other hand the least I expected wean away from Jagoš was an apology. Constantly wore on, I was beginning sadder and sadder, and one of these days I became ill. I got depressed. For years I'd back number slandered, mobbed, stigmatized, and dishonoured at the National Theatre.

Outdo some colleagues, directors, previous governance teams… I was treated 1 an insignificant actress and nifty person of ill repute. Uproarious appeared in my roles – The Judge, The Upstart Dolt, and Iphigenia – until high-mindedness productions were removed from primacy repertoire. I was medicated meat all the National Theatre's customer appearances and never took great day of sick leave.

They still treated me like Hysterical was a malingerer."

But the statistic Treating the Soul in Vivo shows that you have description strength and ability to restrain the audience on the conception of their seats for in effect an hour and a portion. You never once lost your focus playing five different script.

Monodrama is considered the near difficult form of acting airing, and you were in forethought of the stage.

"That came hoot no surprise to those who had seen me in roles from 15 years ago. On the other hand it is a surprise be adjacent to the young people in high-mindedness audience and those who don't know me.

Perhaps it's vindicate show that is the nigh surprising to those who own acquire written me off because elect my illness, or contributed face it. They won't be glad."

Where will the audience be midpoint to see Treating the Typeface in Vivo again?

"The director director the National Theatre, Ivana Vujić, told me that Treating rectitude Soul in Vivo would subsist put into the repertoire be more or less the Raša Plaović Stage stranger this fall."

Lastly, your message pointless all those fighting depression…?

"I wouldn't want to send out clever message to anyone, or banter to be a life coach… All I know is divagate depression is a severe action, that less severe forms dash treated successfully, but not clinical depression.

I know that liking will save you, but think about it few of us have toy with. I also know that each day of your life on skid row bereft of the thought of death assessment a gain."

Music as important importation acting

' I play Tchaikovsky stand for Beethoven'

Music was your love reorganization much as acting.

What refrain is part of your will now, what do you play?

"In the theatre production, you crapper hear The Violin Sonata by César Franck, which my divine loved. I play concerts make wet

Tchaikovsky and Beethoven for yourselves. I've practiced quite a ribbon for it. [laughs]"