The study, on the basis of contemporary documents (newspaper articles, interviews, reviews), analyses the performance of the Novi Sad Theatre based on Peter Weiss’s Mr. Mockinpott: How He Was Cured of His Sufferings directed by Radoslav Dorić. Despite the fact that at the time of staging the company struggled with serious financial and functional problems (lack of its own building and company, audience development problems), the play is referred to as one of the productions that built the theatre’s reputation. The performance in Novi Sad has expanded the original text with a subplot and ballads connecting scenes. The actors used pantomime tools instead of verbal communication, and the director has also included acrobats in the scenes, recalling the traditions of the conventional Japanese theatre. The grotesqueness of the set designer concept, employing the playing field and props of fair play, exceptionally helped the director’s ideas and the pantomime to succeed. György Fejes, who played the main role, received the Golden Laurel Wreath Award for the best male role at the Festival of Small and Experimental Theatre in Sarajevo in 1975.