“Cindarella” by Aleksandar Aca Popović is one of the capital works of Serbian and Yugoslav literature for children. The decision...

“Cindarella” by Aleksandar Aca Popović is one of the capital works of Serbian and Yugoslav literature for children. The decision to include this text in the repertoire of the Little Theatre “Duško Radović” has been made with the intention to dust off the forgotten classics of children's literature. What makes one work classic is its timelessness and, in fact, Aca Popović's "Cinderella" seems to be unusually topical. There is a meta-conflict at the core of this dramatic world: a conflict between artificiality and authenticity, a conflict between a true feeling of love for another human being and a narcissistic, but deeply false, love for oneself that is only projected onto another, as a reflection in a mirror.