PASSENGERS
A concert-performance that deals with the question "Why do people leave the country in which they were born?" through the lens of different cultures. We meet refugees and exiles, emigrants and immigrants, our ancestors and our dreams. The song tells the stories of travelers walking an endless path across the world. [1999]
During the last few years, our country has left, i.e. hundreds of thousands of people emigrated from it for a long time or forever. Among them, the largest number are young, educated people who would build the future of our country. In this way, our future was taken away from us. As a theater troupe, we have experienced that people from other countries come to cooperate with us. They come to our country to live because they love something, in this case the theater. This project follows in the footsteps of those who traveled and tried to realize their dream of a creative and dignified life. – Dijana Milošević, director (1999)
The aesthetics of the play, the often unexpected dynamics, as well as the form of communication between the actors reveal its unusual appearance level. But the director of "Travellers" Dijana Milošević does not stop there. She is looking for a deeper inner connection, as a rule hidden, among those who leave their countries. Thus, it offers us a rational idea through which the "passengers" are seen first of all within the circumstances (social, ideological, political), so the play becomes "ours", and its passengers are not "God-given", nor protected by any kind of halo. Perhaps mostly because of that, but this piece by DAH Theater from the very beginning embraces, flows and, approaching its end, manages to remove the last emotional ring in the viewer.
– I. Milanović (VREME, February 20, 1999)
Cast: Vladan Avramović, Sanja Krsmanović Tasić, Alister O'loughlin, Kathy Randels
Screenplay and direction: Dijana Milosevic
Signs of travel: Neša Paripović
Costumes: DAH THEATER, Jasmina Baoua
Texts: "Constancia" - Carlos Fuentes, DAH Theater
Music: Serbian, Irish, American and Bulgarian traditional songs, "Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather" - Bob Dylan, "Nomad" - Geoffrey Oryma, "Pancho and Lefty" - Townes Van Sant, "Amazing Grace" - John Newton
Lighting: Radomir Stamenković
The implementation was supported by:
ArtsLink Program of CEC International Partners and Open Society Fund
