Word: glas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mihajlov's offense was to suggest that Yugoslavia needed a two-party system - and to set about promoting an oppo sition party complete with its own mag azine, Slobodni Glas (The Voice of Freedom). As he told the court in his own defense: "I cannot consider social ist a society in which only 6% or 7% have all the rights and the others none...
...escaped a nine-month jail sentence last year for a series of articles he wrote on Russia. This time his crime was to proclaim that he and half a dozen friends planned to publish a magazine with the frank intent of opposing the government. Its name would be Slobodni Glas (Free Voice) and it would seek to replace one-party rule with a brand of democratic socialism first bruited by Partisan Hero Milovan Djilas, once Yugoslavia's top Communist theoretician but currently a prisoner for his corrosive anti-Marxist critiques...
Stephen Morris, as Glas, had less faults and less exciting moments. His great confession never went beyond a forte; but since he had kept to a pianissimo throughout the rest of the play, the contrast was still impressive. And he returned nicely to a low-keyed intensity for his most dramatic lines...
Jamie Rosenthal, as Rosie, was consistently entertaining. I was especially impressed by her facial expression during Randall's mock trial of Glas. While the other two were going through a grotesque ritual, I found myself watching Rosie's bewilderment...
Director Daniel Freudenberger staged the show well, but he frequently made too much out of insignificant event. When Glas showed Randall his gun for the first time, for example, it was in a melodramatic manner that led you to unfulfilled expectations of action...