THE HELEN KELLER CASE
Through moments from the biography of Helen Keller, the famous blind-deaf American writer and fighter for human rights, a story is told about the need for communication, about the need to touch the OTHER. Meeting in different planes of time, imaginary and historical characters dance their dance with darkness, pointing a look of hope at the coming century while the song-cry of the Black Lady, the one who brings and takes away everything, is heard. [1998]
"Certain historical periods raise humanity to a new perspective, where new light falls on a world that was in darkness... I believe that we are now living on the threshold of such a revival. Every revival comes into the world with a cry, the cry of the human soul to be free."
"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. Sanja Krsmanović Tasić plays Helen Keller in a spiritual ecstasy that has to be believed. With beauty, grace, natural elegance, she floats high above the stage space, assuring us that precisely her lack of hearing and sight opens a spiritual view of herself and the world around her, which seems to embrace her with love. Annie Sullivan played in the shadow that shines with nobility, the extraordinary 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
