TROJAN WOMEN Replica
Cooperation project and co-production between DAH Theater and Artpolis from Pristina.
DAH Theatre from Belgrade and Artpolis–The Center for Art and Community from Pristina will create a theater performance in cooperation with artists from Kosovo and Serbia. Theatrical play TROJAN WOMAN-REPLICA, directed by Zana Hodža and Dijana Milošević, is based on Euripides' tragedy TROJAN WOMEN. The performance is a process consisting of a combination of workshops, rehearsals, presentations, dialogues in the community. The collaboration of artists from Serbia and Kosovo is a dialogue of peace, love and solidarity that can be a guide for new generations in the field of art and culture.
Trojans – Replica is one of the activities of the project Culture for Change: Towards better relations between Serbia and Kosovo through Art and Youth Activism / Culture for change: Towards better relations between Serbia and Kosovo through art and youth activism, which is supported by the European Union and the main partners are the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights from Belgrade and Artpolis from Pristina.
The process of working on the play stimulates the participants to promote conflict resolution and reconciliation between Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo, Serbia and the region through artistic and activist initiatives, thus showing that art overcomes deep-rooted borders and political barriers.
Trojans
Euripides Trojans are a tragedy more than 2500 years old. Her themes - war, violence against women and children, displacement, genocide - are still relevant around the world. Trojans are therefore, unfortunately, a very modern piece. The horror that was described, in ancient Greece, we see today in many parts of the world, and Serbia and Kosovo have gone through that painful experience in their recent history. That is why in the project we are looking for an answer to the archetypal situation that is repeated, and which we want to change - acceptance of the inevitability that women suffer and are victims throughout history. What are the ways of that change? What are the possible different reactions of women, non-acceptance of that circle, rebellion?
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes an obligation! – Thomas Jefferson
The joint work takes place in Belgrade in September, in Pristina in November 2023, and envisages public presentations of the work in both cities.
Participating performers in the process in Belgrade: Blerta Gubetini, Donika Ahmeti, Ismail Kasumi, Ivana Milenović Popović, Labinot Raci, Ljubica Damčević, Mikel Markaj, Milica Petrović, Qendresa Kajtazi, Zhaneta Xhemajli, Zoran Vasiljević
PRISTINA NOVEMBER 16-23, 2023.
Public presentation at the DODONA theater in Pristina on November 23, 2023.
The process of joint work continued in Pristina with the development of stage material and dramaturgy that included music, costume, and lighting design. After the presentation in the DODONA Theater, a conversation was held with the audience, who emotionally received the scenes in both languages, Albanian and Serbian.
The focus of the artists of the "Trojan Women Replica" project is on a different resolution than Euripides', which does not present women only as victims, but encourages us to think about why it is necessary for women to leave this role and what is needed to hear the female voice. A woman's voice can bring about a change in the power structure that dominates the whole world - patriarchy. For centuries, that system approves the oppression of one over the other - man over woman, oppression over the different, over what is different. It is becoming more and more clear that until such a system is dismantled, there will be no fundamental changes towards a more humane society, regardless of who it is.
TROJAN REPLICAS
According to Euripides' "The Trojan Women"
Directed by: Zana Hoxha and Dijana Milošević
Contemporary text: Shpëtim Selmani
Dramaturgy: Jadranka Anđelić and Shpëtim Selmani
Cast: Blerta Gubetini, Ismail Kasumi, Ivana Milenović Popović, Labinot Raci, Ljubica Damčević, Mikel Markaj, Milica Petrović, Qendresa Kajtazi, Zoran Vasiljević
Music: Liburn Jupoll
Choreographer: Robert Nuha
Video and photo documentation: Butrint Pasha
Artpolis production manager: Venera Ismail
DAH Theater production manager: Nataša Novaković
Production assistant: Mary Zec
Partnerships
Supported by the European Union


































