A play about the artistic collaboration and creative process between the actress and the director, which deals with the topic of missing people. A reflection on the strength and fragility of memory, on the meaning of disappearance and the possibility of transformation. The play "The Trembling of the Rose" deals with the memory preserved by the families of the missing, especially the women from those families. [2014]
The disappearances of loved ones are tragic events for families left in the dark, and their only consolation is the memories of the victims and the hope that everything will be resolved. The process of resolution requires time during which memory fades along with historical truths that are also forgotten and erased. The deep wounds caused by disappearances continue to undermine relations between groups and nations, sometimes decades after the disappearances, and prevent society from beginning the healing process. Art, and especially theater art, has the ability to record and in some way realize these efforts through the living word and presence in the performance.
Authentic confessions were used in the play: Samra Alić, Olgica Božanić, Ema Čekić, Cica Janković, Dragica Majstorović, Slavica Marinković, Beška Avdić, Ismeta Dardagan, Fadila Grahić, Hahifa Hasanović, Enisa Hasanović, Mirsada Lupić, Mevludin Lupić, Šifa Music, Ajka Selimović, Mevla Selimović, Suvada Selimović and Zarfa Suljić.
Excerpts from the texts used: "Circle of love against death: Testimonies of Mothers from the Plaza del Mayo" by Matilda Melibovski; "I Remember Juliet: Voices of the Missing" Eric Stener Carlson; "One Countless Death" by Nora Strejilevich; "The art of telling the truth - storytelling about an authoritarian regime". Edited by: Xenia Bilbia, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia E. Milton, Lee A. Payne; "At the height of hopelessness" Emil Cioran; "Funes, the one who remembers" HL Borges; "Nemesis" Richard Muller; "Wisdom of the Earth" by Ana Vojit and Neville Drury, and original texts by artists from DAH Theatre.
"To say that DAH Teatro's play "The Trembling of the Rose" is among the best in our theater does not mean much, or, after all, it means everything. First, it concerns the poor state of our theater, and secondly, that despite everything (and despite everyone) - "the word is spoken". and the seed, the show that they do, that they watch and that are loved by those who won't stop asking themselves, who know what they don't want exactly because they themselves are one big YES." - Vladimir Kolarić, writer and film theorist
For the performance "The Trembling of the Rose", DAH Theater was nominated for the prestigious award "Teatro Nudo di Teresa Pomodoro" in Milan [Italy].
Concept: Dijana Milošević and Maja Mitić
Played by: Nemanja Ajdačić – The one who is and is not / Violinist
Dijana Milošević – Director
Maja Mitić - A woman several hundred years old who has already seen everything
Scenography: Neša Paripović
Sound: Jugoslav Hadžić
Photo: Una Škandro
Assistant director: Mladen Lukešević
PR and organization: Ivana Milenović Popović and Nataša Novaković
Photo: Una Škandro, Renato Mangolin
DAH Theatre thanks:
Claudia Bernardi, Jaya Hartlein, Marija Muždalo, Louisa Sanfey, Aleksandra Stojanović, Women in Black, Donka Torov, Lidija Mavra, Radosav Majdejvac.
DAH Theater would like to especially thank all those who trusted us and shared their confessions.
The realization was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia
