Latin and Cyrillic versions of my poster design for the play The Loser for JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia.
The combination of Alexander Pushkin's The Little Tragedy about Mozart and Salieri with the classic novel The Loser by Thomas Bernhardt enables the passionate experiment of author and director Nataša Raulović. Just as Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri" is not about its nominal protagonists, so Bernard's Glenn Gould from The Loser is not a biographical account, but a parable about the relationship between genius and banality, a study of the collision between the banality of everyday life and the sublimity of artistic peaks. It is a story about music, genius, envy, terrors of success and how easily a person may fail in their endeavors.
