TRAVELLERS
A concert-performance that addresses the question of “Why do people leave the country where they were born?” through the lens of different cultures. We encounter refugees and exiles, emigrants and immigrants, our ancestors and our dreams. Through song, the stories of travelers are woven as they walk an endless path across the world.
[1999]
Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of people have left our country, i.e., emigrated from it for a longer period or forever. Among them, the largest number are young, educated people who would build the future of our country. In this way, our future has been taken away from us. As a theater company, we have experienced people from other countries coming to collaborate with us. They come to our country to live because of their love for something, in this case, theater. This project traces those who, by traveling, tried to realize their dream of a creative and dignified life. – Dijana Milošević, director (1999)
The aesthetics of the performance, often unexpected dynamics, as well as the form of communication among the actors themselves reveal its unusual appearance. But the director of “Passengers,” Dijana Milošević, does not stop there. She seeks a deeper inner, usually hidden connection among those who leave their countries. Thus, she offers us a rational idea through which she observes “travelers” primarily within the context of circumstances (social, ideological, political), so the performance becomes “ours,” and its travelers are neither “God-given” nor protected by any halo. Perhaps mostly because of this, this piece by DAH Theater from the very beginning encompasses, flows, and, nearing its end, manages to remove the last emotional hoop in the viewer.
– I. Milanović (VREME, 20.02.1999.)
Cast: Vladan Avramović, Sanja Krsmanović Tasić, Alister O’loughlin, Kathy Randels
Scenario and direction: Dijana Milosević
Signs of travel: Neša Paripović
Costumes: DAH TEATAR, Jasmina Baoua
Texts: “Constancia” – Carlos Fuentes, DAH Teatar
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
Realization supported by:
ArtsLink Program of CEC International Partners and the Fund for an Open Society
