ANGELS MEMORIES
A performance for open spaces that changes under the influence of the time and space in which it is played. Three actresses as angels explore contact with the audience in a street situation, casting a glance back towards the 20th century. [1996]
Three actresses as three angels are mediators between people and ideas, heaven and earth. The angels are fallen angels, cast on the earth in times that require people to take a side, which angels cannot do. They remember their different
lives on Earth and live pieces of their shattered memories. Memories of dark times, memories of the plays they played as artist angels, memories of us all. They are a bridge between the worlds above and below.
They sing, listen to opera, play parts of their plays, dance, and mourn. They speak an angelic language that can only be understood by the heart. They offer love. At the same time, they warn people and call them to wake up because without people they
do not exist.
Who is crying now somewhere in the world, who is crying for no reason in the world,
cries for me.
Who is laughing now somewhere in the night, who is laughing for no reason in the night,
laughs at me.
Who is going now somewhere in the world, who is going for no reason in the world,
goes to me.
Who is dying now somewhere in the world, who is dying for no reason in the world:
looks at me.
– Rainer Maria Rilke (Serious Hour)
“After the performance Angels Memories, by the world-renowned Belgrade theater DAH TEATAR, about ten minutes after the three angels with the whole globe at their feet left the playing area in the Veljković Pavilion courtyard, three spectators loudly wondered: “Will they come back?” We asked them who they were, those who were waiting for the angels to return among us, already quite frozen spectators, well after midnight. They were a second-year architecture student, a freshman in forestry, and a high school student. A real audience, with pure hearts and fairytale views of the world, a world of reality touched by the magic of theatrical play.”
– Zorica Jevremović (Waiting for Angels, Ludus, 15.10.1996)
Cast: Sanja Krsmanović Tasić, Valentina Milivojević, Maja Mitić
Direction and dramaturgy: Dijana Milošević and Jadranka Andjelić
Objects: Neša Paripović
Costumes: Dah Teatar and Antonella Diana
Texts: Octavio Paz, José Ángel Valente, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sam Shepard, The Bible
Supported by the Fund for an Open Society Belgrade
