CITY SEARCH
In the project "Searching for the city" the main theme is the "invisible" walls in our city, made of hidden histories and taboos related to our city. The hidden history of our city is also manifested through the lack of clear information about what happened in the past and for what purposes certain places in the city were used. This primarily refers to buildings that still exist that have changed their purpose, as well as to buildings that once existed but today are no longer there, but the memory of them still lives on. [2007]
By creating a theatrical performance right on the ruins of the library on Kosančićevo venc, our idea is to shed light on the "hidden walls", i.e. to the hidden history of our city. The story of the bombed library is also the story of erasing the memory of a people as well as breaking the connection with the universal spiritual values that make up every library. With this play, we wish to restore the broken thread of memory as well as the broken connections with the world.
The hero of all wars, Marco Polo, Heidi and many other characters from this play will deconstruct the past on the ruins of the library, thus evoking life and constructing a possible future.
Ruins also carry another aspect - apart from the destructive one, ruins also represent memory, the core of a certain idea, an imaginary space for projecting visions and desires. "If there is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing, it is its ruin" - said French symbolist painter Peirre Puvis de Chavinne.
The project was carried out in cooperation with the Fragment theater from Switzerland.
Cast: Jugoslav Hadžić, Barbara Keller, Sanja Krsmanović Tasić, Ivana Milenović, Lidija Milić,
Maja Mitić, Natalie Müller, Donka Torov, Kristin Vodusek, Mirjana Vuković
Direction and dramaturgy: Dijana Milošević
Co-director and assistant: Olivier Bachmann
Associate Playwright: Patrick Bachmann
Scene: Neša Paripović
Costumes: Milena Ristić and DAH Teatar
Music composed and performed by: Aleksandra Damnjanović, Nebojša Ignjatović,
Jugoslav Hadžić, Dragan Simeunović
Organization: Kristina Mlađenović and Suzana Tasić Anović
DAH Theater would like to thank: the National Library of Serbia, the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Belgrade, JP Gradsko zelenilo, JP Elektrodistribucija Belgrade, Nikola Tasić, the Torov family and the tenants of Kosančićev venco.
Theater Fragment is grateful for financial support: Ernst Goehner Stiftung, Zug (CH) Werkraum Warteck pp, Basel (CH) as well as Murielle Bachmann, Philipp Berweger, Jonas Schudel, Patrick Zemp.
SUPPORTED IMPLEMENTATION
