Written by Hadžić Kurić and directed by Irfan Mensur, this production tells the story of its protagonist, the great actor and womanizer Edmund Kean. This fascinating historical figure was also the subject of works by Alexandre Dumas père and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, in his play, Hadžić Kurić focuses primarily on the motif of rebellion rather than on the romantic plot. Because there can be neither a true love story nor a compelling dramatic plot without someone’s rebellion. An exciting, inspiring and wonderful story about actors, in which Kean—the romantic, eccentric, drug addict, alcoholic and hero—fights for all those ideals and values that are still forgotten and neglected today.

The premiere production of Edmund Kean achieved great success at its opening night at the National Theatre in Niš. The role of the famous English actor, who is “believed to be a king when he plays a king, and a fisherman when he plays a fisherman,” yet who remains outside social norms, was entrusted to Dejan Cicmilović. In this imaginative portrayal of the eternal, unpredictable fate of an actor, he was joined by Aleksandar Marinković, Sanja Krstović, Milena Jakšić, Snežana Petrović and Aleksandar Mihailović.