THE STORY OF TEA

This DAH Teatar performance takes A.P. Chekhov’s classic drama “Three Sisters” as its starting point, which serves as a reference point, a framework that holds together various stories and themes. The central theme of the play – the train that will finally take the sisters to the place of their dreams – Moscow, or the situation of missed opportunities and squandered chances, inspired and provoked several important themes dealt with in DAH Teatar’s “Three Sisters”. [2006]

“The memory that anamnesis seeks to undo is the forgetting that happens whenever violence is considered justified.”

Trains and missed opportunities have led to missing people, missing languages, and missing truths. This performance explores the meaning of memory in relation to truth – especially harsh truth. The question the play focuses on is not about hidden truths but about how we treat harsh truths. What happens, for example, when the truth about the abduction of people from the train during the wars in our country is revealed and recognized even at the state level, but to this day the victims have not been officially mourned and their families have not heard a word of comfort? What are the implications of the mass of information we receive today through the media, information that is not treated humanely? What is the role of memory? What are the forms of amnesia of our time and how to create a ritual of anamnesis?

Starring: Jugoslav Hadžić, Aleksandra Jelić, Sanja Krsmanović-Tasić, Maja Mitić
Music (composed and performed by): Aleksandra Damnjanović, Nebojša Ignjatović, Jugoslav Hadžić
Directed by: Dijana Milošević
Scenography: Neša Paripović
Lighting: Radomir Stamenković
Photography: Jovan Čekić, Vincent Abbey
Object Design: Nikola Tasić – ARBOS
 
Realization supported by: Rockefeller Brothers Fund and City of Belgrade – Secretariat for Culture