In coproduction of Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Croatian Writers' Society and Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, and as a part of the Festival Features Writers project, "Bitter Moon" will be premiered in the set adaptation by Vlatka Vorkapić, on Tuesday, 28th July. Performance will be set on board ship that will leave the Gruž Port at 9.30 pm. The author himself, Pascal Bruckner will be present at the premiere.

Following the example of the four protagonists, two love couples – Franz and Rebecca and Didier and Beatrice, who boarded the ship "Truva" and went on a cruise, the actors and audience shall board a ship in the Port of Gruž, which will for two July nights serve as a theatrical venue for a story about love and hate, passion and destruction, and, most of all, manipulation. Behind the apparently helpless and harmless invalid Franz, who merely looks for sympathy, hides a monstrous manipulator. Having chosen the young well-read but inexperienced couple, Didier and Beatrice, as a means for his revenge, and his beautiful Tunisian-born Jewish wife, Rebecca, as a bait and victim, Franz begins his dangerous game.

Bruckner and his, perhaps most popular novel, "Bitter Moon" became celebrated after the film directed by Roman Polansky and starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emmanuelle Seigner had been released.

Set adaptation is done by director Vlatka Vorkapić, lighting design by Marko Mijatović, and music by Dr. Jojboli. Rebecca is played by Sara Stanić, Franz by Robert Plemić, Beatrice by Marija Šegvić and Dedier by Jure Radnić.

"Bitter Moon" will also be performed on Wednesday, 29th July, while the author, famous French philosopher and writer, Pascal Bruckner will host a conversation with Dražen Katunarić and the audience on Thursday, 30th July at 9.30 pm at the Sponza Palace Atrium. Three days with Bruckner at the Festival are realised within the Rendez-vous, a festival of France in Croatia - www.rendez-vous.hr.