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EVELIN: "She always has to make things difficult. It’s my turn. I am Evelin and I work at the warehouse. But this is only temporary, until I can find something better, of course. VERA: “Let her dream, babe. You know how it goes … It’s only a pipe dream!”
What is a sin? What is a bit of a sin?
This play by Draga Potočnjak is based on the Balkan disaster. Against the backdrop of a bloody war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a human story of torture and means of torture is exposed.
In this adaptation by Nebojša Pop-Tasić, Madame Bovary, the immortal character from world literature becomes the Bovary who, both in time of her creation and today, remains madam Bovary, Emma, tragically ending her fate of a provincial wife, mother and lover.
Take Me in Your Arms is a drama about the decline of reading culture, about life and learning, about love and sacrifice, about hope, despair and death.
The theme of fear of anything different, foreign or other, as suggested in the title of the play, is always topical. But this play deals with it from a fresh and complex, distinctly experience-based angle. This is a stylistically varied script written in confident, broad strokes and painting, describing, presenting and commenting the relationship toward different/other.
this apple, made of gold is a play that sets its own rules. Rules of a female author, sexuality as known by women, relationships as seen by women and a reality where modern women have their fantasies and in which they live.
“I hate everything to do with the world and what’s become of it when I wasn’t paying attention. I am bored by everything about this world. I am bored to death by small joys and small sorrows of my relatives. Most of all I am bored by any sort of conversation, even this one, with you, because it robs my thoughts of truth, seriousness and meaning.”
The play Exercises in Anxiety, subtitled »a play about today’s times«, cuts into the psychopathy of the present with an extraordinary sharpness.
"When you’re not here, I miss you. When you’re here, I can’t stand you. Everything is as it must be."
“It happened yesterday – it’s happening today – somewhere …”
State of emergency, the city is being bombed. A husband and a wife are packing their essentials to go to a bunker. The husband takes his white socks.