Anja Suša » Anja Suša | » Rent a Friend http://anjasusa.com Theatre Director Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:08:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Lively, interactive, and energetic theatre performance http://anjasusa.com/2015/05/18/lively-interactive-and-energetic-theatre-performance/ http://anjasusa.com/2015/05/18/lively-interactive-and-energetic-theatre-performance/#comments Mon, 18 May 2015 21:53:07 +0000 http://anjasusa.com/wp/?p=15986 Novi List
20th November, 2011
By Nataša Govedić

The authors of an inspiring and playful text – Saša Božić and Dora Ruždnjak Podolski – received a magnificent support though the actors of Trešnja theatre and directress Anja Suša, who helped transform the text written casually in the form of an internet dialogue into u lively, interactive, and energetic theatre performance.
The form of the performance is superb, as actors reveal more about their characters than any psycho-analyses and tests would: the actors and the director deliberately amplify theatrical expression in order to ridicule tepidness and alienation of the Internet. In the end, we see the victory of theatre art and the dynamic face-to-face expression over a morality infused picture book about the bad sides of the Internet.

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RENT-A-FRIEND – an excellent teenage performance

By Igor Ružić
16th November, 2011

The biggest value of this performance is that it neither preaches nor focuses on just one problem, which is why it really is theatre and not a mere chat room turned into a performance, or a “case study” enriched with dramatic play in order to be more easily swallowed.
First loves, searching for one’s self, teenage angst and the confrontations with parents who are far from ideal, everything is included in this hour and a half long performance according to a network structure: cascading, partial, superficial, manifold, and sometimes, on purpose, not strictly veritable.
It supports Internet surfing for the purpose of acquiring information, it teaches that chat, even when it is chit-chat, is still not cheat, it measures time as if it really cares while substituting real people by the green monitor glare. Still, it (also) supports the old-fashioned walk in the park, first kisses on a bench, attempts to write a poem… and whatever else is usually done during the “in-between” years.
If an audience should have a performance it deserves, then Rent-a-Friend is spot on. Watching it through a pair of non-teenage eyes can either leave you baffled or lift you up on the wings of nostalgia.

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