Pluto (Cork)
Publisher: Sovremenost
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Skopje, Macedonia
Number of pages: 80
Description: Initially written as a short story, "Cork", with some changes in characters, later on became a play, a psychological drama set in Macedonia between 1939 and 1946, during the Bulgarian occupation. The characters are Alexander, an ambitious, self-centred, domineering doctor, preventing his wife Florina from expressing herself as a music teacher. The other characters are the doctor's sister Ana, Florina's brother Boris, Ana's fiancée, the opportunist Judge Dragan, the former teacher Hrisula and the student Katerina. Ivan, an illegal political activist is hidden in the house, wanted by the police. Florina, asserting herself, with the help of her husband saves his life. Apart from personal, the play touches on the ideological differences that tear apart this family, as well as the political upheavals in Macedonia at that time. The author: ...." A cork is a spongy tree used by fishermen on their nets, saving them from sinking. The drama's title is symbolic - people disinterested in secrets if depths or the beauties of heights - people whose only aim in life is to remain on the surface, to bob about, people who live through storms and remain always, always on the surface".