Dramatic Amateurism on the Island of Silba

Abstract

The girls of St Mary’s congregation trained and successfully performed amateur theatre plays between the First and the Second World War The narrators Vjekoslava Lovrin and Josipa Matulina in their old ages remembered contents of the plays, actors of some roles, costumes they were dressed in and the look of the stage. They remembered well shows: Daughter Found, Be Patient, Be Saved, The Death of Janja. They mentioned humorous one act plays: Two Deaf Women, Magic Soup and Magic Candle. The teacher Angela Žorž trained the show New Romeo with female and male amateur actors and at the same time, she directed occasional plays Snow White and Seven Dwarfs and the play St Clause. Repertoire specificity of Silba amateur shows is based on melodrama and romantic comedies. The authoress of this article watched amateurism on Silba in context of everyday life in order to explain causes of origin of isolated and specific drama expression.