{"id":3159119,"date":"2020-11-05T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/if-you-really-want-something-you-can-make-it-happen\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:07:33","slug":"if-you-really-want-something-you-can-make-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/en\/if-you-really-want-something-you-can-make-it-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"If you really want something, you can make it happen"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThe career of a young Montenegrin actress takes off thanks to EU-funded play, Kapital\r\n\r\nJelena, 22, has held an affection for the arts and, in particular, for acting from a very young age. At school she regularly participated in activities related to drama and acting. But back then she didn\u2019t know that when the time came to choose her professional career this joy would also bring along some complications.\r\n\r\nDuring high school, acting had become a real passion for her and she started considering it seriously as her lifetime profession. Her family and some of her friends advised her that choosing acting as a profession could be risky.\n\n\u201cThey said that there was no money in acting and that you couldn\u2019t live on a love for the arts. I think there is a bit of truth in that, but I also think that if you want to do something \u2013 if you are dedicated and if you really love what you do \u2013 you can make it happen,\u201d she says.\n\nIn any case, Jelena was doubtful as to whether she could pass the entrance exam for the Drama Faculty. She made sure she had a plan B and a plan C in case she didn\u2019t get a place. In the meantime, she worked hard with constant preparation for the exam. Luckily for her, plan A worked out and she was accepted at the Drama Faculty.\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>\u201cIf you want to do something \u2013 if you are dedicated and if you really love what you do \u2013 you can make it happen\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>A really big deal\n<\/strong>However, as she says \u2018this was not the happy ending\u2019 as challenges for an artist do not end by enrolling at university. She knew that she had to work hard and learn a lot, which she was ready for. But she was still far from sure that this hard work would have any tangible results in terms of a successful career and financial stability.\n\nHowever, in her first year she was invited to audition for a play \u2013 or, as she likes to call it, a performance. The play was being developed as part of the EU Collective Plays! project funded through the European Union\u2019s Creative Europe Programme. A few months later, she was informed that she was accepted. This was her first play.\n\nIt is unusual for first-year students to perform in a play, let alone in one that involves international performance. \u201cThis was a really big deal!\u201d Jelena says.\n\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>\u201cIt is a very strong performance. It has a lot of music in it and it presents many different perspectives on each topic or problem. So, people were shocked, and people were amazed; people were crying, and people were laughing.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\nThe EU Collective Plays! project promotes international cooperation between playwrights, theatre organisations and communities of different nationalities for sharing creation and staging of collective plays. The project also promotes young playwrights and their careers, and their recognition at the European and global level. The project experiments with the widening of theatre audiences by the diffusion of different types of workshops, shows and educational laboratories.\r\n\r\n<strong>Opening opportunities\n<\/strong>The name of the performance was <em>K<\/em><em>apital<\/em>, and the idea behind the play was to question everything \u2013 from theories that people accept as truth to figures about poverty, official statistics on the consumer society, to nationalistic debates.\n\n\u201cI was thrilled. First of all, I was getting an opportunity to work with the well-known director Andr\u00e1s Urb\u00e1n. It was very different from classical theatre, so working with him taught me that classical theatre is not the only theatre. There are many other ways to approach topics and the problems that are happening right now and not only in some books or plays,\u201d she says.\n\nThe cast travelled widely with the play, both within and outside of Montenegro, and as a result, she was invited to auditions and was asked to perform in other plays.\n\nBesides <em>K<\/em><em>apital,<\/em> there were other plays and performances developed by partners as part of the EU Collective Plays! Project. The project partners have set up nine playwriting transnational collective groups and finalised nine new original plays, which have been written collaboratively.\n\n<em>Kapital<\/em> received positive reviews and wide acclaim from the audiences in cities where they performed. \u201cIt is a very strong performance. It has a lot of music in it and it presents many different perspectives on each topic or problem. So, people were shocked, and people were amazed; people were crying, and people were laughing,\u201d Jelena says.\n\nAnd maybe within the audiences was another young girl, wide-eyed at the magic of theatre and beginning to believe that if you really want something you can make it happen.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The career of a young Montenegrin actress takes off thanks to EU-funded play, Kapital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3159120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[694],"tags":[],"area-of-cooperation":[],"country":[248],"opportunity-type":[],"class_list":["post-3159119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","country-montenegro"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>If you really want something, you can make it happen - 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