THE HELEN KELLER CASE

Kroz momente iz biografije Helen Keler, čuvene slepo-gluve američke književnice i borca za ljudska prava, ispreda se priča o potrebi za komunikacijom, o potrebi za dodirom DRUGOG. Srećući se u različitim ravnima vremena, imaginarni i istorijski likovi plešu svoj ples sa tamom, upirući pogled nade u vek koji dolazi dok se čuje pesma–plač Crne dame, one koja donosi i oduzima sve . [1998]

“Određena istorijska razdoblja uzdižu čovečanstvo do novog pogleda, gde novo svetlo pada na svet koji je bio u tami… Verujem da mi sada živimo na pragu ovakvog preporoda. Svaki preporod dolazi na svet sa krikom, krikom ljudske duše da bude slobodna.”

"One of the guiding thoughts in the life of Helen Keller, a deaf-blind American writer and a determined fighter for social justice, remained written down, which reads: "Life is an adventure or nothing". This is certainly what all the artists of DAH Theater had in mind when they decided to find light in the darkness and sound in the silence by staging their latest premiere, "The Case of Helen Keller". The author of the script and director, Dijana Milošević, had really excellent collaborators who certainly enjoyed preparing this show for a year searching for your own inner view with love. With a refined sense of measure, stage atmosphere and meticulously studied mise-en-scène, Dijana Milošević enchanted us from the very beginning of the play, in which the characters emerge from the darkness. Helen Keller u duhovnom zanosu kome se mora verovati igra Sanja Krsmanović Tasić. Lepotom, gracioznošću, prirodnom elegancijom, ona visoko lebdi nad scenskim prostorom uveravajući nas da joj upravo nedostatak sluha i vida otvara duhovni pogled na sebe i svet oko sebe, koji kao da grli sa ljubavlju. Ani Saliven igrala je u senci koja sjaji plemenitošću izvanredna Maja Mitić.”

– Milica Zaitsev (Our Struggle, May 18, 1998)

"DAH Theater in its Slavic tenderness, through the broken dramaturgy of words, images and movements, in its own specific, stylized, poetic way, tells a layered story, primarily about the relationship between two beings, two women, their intertwined placental lives, as a mythological epic about the strength, persistence and perseverance of one, and as a Christian fairy tale about selfless giving, sacrifice and amazing love of the other. Dijana Milošević, Vladan Avramović, Sanja Krsmanović-Tasić, Tina Milivojević, Maja Mitić and Alistair O'loughlin showed with their sensitive potential, youth and freshness that they are a ray of light in the bottomless darkness. So let's meet them with open hearts."

- Milorad St. Ilić (Politika, 9 May 1998)

Cast: Vladan Avramović, Sanja Krsmanović-Tasić, Maja Mitić, Alister O'Loughlin, Tina Milivojević / Kathy Randels
Screenplay and direction: Dijana Milošević
Music: Tina Milivojevic
Scenography: Neša Paripović
Lighting: Radomir Stamenković
Construction of buildings: Nikola Tasić - ARBOS
Texts: William Blake, Madeline Ginns, Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan, Emmanuel Swedenborg
Lyrics: HL Borges, Lao Tzu, J. Rumi, PB Shelley

The realization was supported by the Belgrade Open Society Fund