The hit play People of Wax opens the theater season

The multi-award-winning hit play People of Wax by Mate Matišić, directed by Janusz Kica, is back on the HNK repertoire after two years and you can watch it on Monday the 14th and Wednesday the 16th of September. Buy tickets HERE or at the HNK box office. Multi-award winning play People of Wax The play was premiered at the end of 2016, achieving an exceptional […]

The multi-award-winning hit play People of Wax by Mate Matišić, directed by Janusz Kica, is back on the HNK repertoire after two years and you can watch it on Monday the 14th and Wednesday the 16th of September .

Buy tickets HERE or at the HNK box office.

Multi-award winning play People of Wax

The play was premiered at the end of 2016, achieving exceptional success with domestic and foreign audiences and official critics. At the International Festival of Small Stages in Rijeka, author Mate Matišić received the award for best play. At the Marulić Days in 2017, the play was awarded the prize for the play as a whole, the award for directing went to Janusz Kica, and the award for best acting achievement to Goran Grgić for the role of Viktor.

The play also won the Story Hall of Fame 2017 award from Story magazine as the best play of the year. On the 41st days of Fadil Hadžić's satire, the play won four awards and one recognition; the award for the best text went to Mate Matišić, the award for directing Janusz Kica, the award Ivo Serdar, for the role best accepted by the audience Ksenija Marinković, one of the five equal acting awards went to Alma Prica, and especially awards for scenography Studio Numen and Ivana Jonka. The Tito Strozzi Award of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb in 2017 went to Goran Grgić for the role of Viktor, while Siniša Popović was awarded the 2017 Croatian Acting Award for the supporting role of Nikola. At the Golden Studio awards ceremony, the play People of Wax was declared the best play, and Ksenija Marinković received the award for best actress.

Drama triptych People of Wax by Mate Matišić consists of three independent and stylistically different parts, whose main link is Viktor, playwright and screenwriter, former rock guitarist and pop-rock star of the former state, a counterpart to Mati Matišić, playwright and screenwriter, former guitarist and the stars of the Yugoslav band Prva ljubav.

Starring Goran Grgić, Ana Begić, Ksenija Marinković, Ivan Jončić, Slavko Juraga, Luka Dragić, Luka Dragić, Siniša Popović, Bojan Navojec, Ivan Glowatzky, Milan Pleština, Silvio Vovk, Kristijan Potočki, Alen Šalinović, Luca Anić, Alma Prica , Damir Markovina, Vanja Matujec, Iva Mihalić, Katija Zubčić, Barbara Vicković, Olga Pakalović, Ivana Boban, Dora Lipovčan.