Aleksandra Malivuk's Reel

The monologue is taken from Miroslav Krleza’s play "Messrs. Glembay". Translated & subtitled by Aleksandra Malivuk.

Playlist: 7 videos ("Fires" - trailer (soloperformance), Laurentia - Fueneovejuna (in English), Molly Bloom - Ulysses (in English), "Der Erlkönig" - Goethe (in German), Baroness Castelli - Messrs. Glembay (in Serbian): colour, black&white, with English subtitles)

"Du liebes Kind, komm, geh mit mir!" ("Sweet lad, o come and join me, do!") - inspired by Goethe’s famous ballad "Der Erlkönig"/"The Erl-King" - https://germanstories.vcu.edu/goethe/erl_dual.html

JAMES JOYCE: ULYSSES – AN EXCERPT FROM MOLLY BLOOM'S SOLILOQUY This video presents my first attempts in creating and developing a character of Molly Bloom. I am still in the process of (re) reading and analyzing the text, trying to crawl deeper under Molly’s skin. I aspire to make a solo performance in English, based on the Episode 18 (Penelope) of Joyce’s Ulysses. This is my very first oral interpretation of the very last part of this Episode and merely the first draft of the...

Laurencia‘ s monologue (in English) taken from Fuente Ovejuna, a play written by Lope de Vega ~ DEDICATED TO ALL VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE ~ RAPE can happen to ANYONE but it is NEVER the VICTIM's FAULT! It still is considered RAPE even if: - You didn't physically fight back. - You used to date or were friends with the perpetrator. - You are married or engaged to the rapist. - You do not remember the rape. - You willingly ingest drugs or alcohol.

"But men are not made to spend their entire lives warming themselves at the same domestic fires. He went away toward new conquest and left me standing like a big deserted house filled with the ticking of a useless clock." Old Mountain Countryside (Temska, Serbia) - outdoors performance - an excerpt 1 ( Clytemnestra)

"I killed him only for that, to force him to realize that I was not a thing of no importance that you could drop or hand over to the first comer." Old Mountain Countryside - outdoors performance - an excerpt 2 ( Clytemnestra)

"Do you know how I recognise you Polynices, among the men made equal by the appearance of decay? By your nakedness, which removed you from all deceit. By the solitude surrounding you like an honor guard." Old Mountain Countryside - outdoors performance - an excerpt (Antigone)

SOLO PERFORMANCE - based on the motifs of the eponymous book written by Marguerite Yourcenar - adapted by Aleksandra Malivuk Five women. Five lives. Five deaths. Five confessions. Five poems about love. Five women burned in the fires of their own blood. Five profoundly intimate stories - about choices and consequences, shame and dignity, despair and suicide, revenge and remorse, crime and punishment, quest and salvation. And above all, about love and passion - uncompromising and total, crazy...