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Beogradsko dramsko pozoriste 21.09. 22:00 Trajanje: 1h 10'

A monologue for a woman-bomb, a nameless politician, his bodyguards and mistress, God, a choir of angels, a worm, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, twenty friends of mine, my mother and myself. Dramaturgical-theoretical advice: Ana Vujanovic Set design: Sinisa llic Costume design: Maja Mirkovic Cast; Milena Dordevic, Evgenija Eskina Kovacevic, Dejana Miladinovic, Snezana Milojevic, Milena Moravcevic, Marija Opsenica, Danica Ristovski, Sonja Zivanovic. Proof reader: Dijana Marojevic Producer; Ana Dimitrijevic RISK#I, performances: Europa, Rio bar and Woman-bomb are the result of cooperation among the CZKD, TkH Platform and Belgrade Drama Theatre. Premiere: 29 January 2008 Duration: 1h 10' "TERRORISM SPEECH" i.e. "SPEECH OR TERRORISM"; ABOUT THE OXYMORON WE SHOULD BETTER SOLVE Terrorism today is one of the most complex stumbling blocks of moral philosophy and even of the ethics we conceive and practise in our daily lives. On the one hand, terrorism is the ultimate act of violence and destruction as well as an act of selfdestruction in the case of suicide bombers {including women-bombs). On the other hand, however, it is, as.a rule, the act of those who are underprivileged or see themselves as such, those who are endangered, prevented by the current social structure to express their position and resistance in any other way but through direct violence. Those who cannot speak because nobody hears them i.e. because their speech does not penetrate the social field of «audibility». In this sense, if we realise that terrorism is a response to repression and try to understand it, it would make sense to shift the focus from the perpetrators of the acts of terror to the other side, the side of the predominant oppressive discourse and the system generating terrorism as a reaction to it. Within the context of the expansion of Islamic fundamentalism and its terrorist groups and operations, to a significant degree spilling over from the Middle East to Europe and the USA, it should mean a radical introspection on our part, in the Western, Christian segment of the world. What is in the mind of a woman-bomb becoming increasingly the paradigmatic figure of Islamic terrorism-we do not and cannot know with certainty. All our epistemologial tools applicable to this issue, from moral philosophy and social theory to art and feminism to social psychology and psychoanalysis are, in fact, let us not forget it.

The Woman-Bomb revolves also around my own difficulty: how to define evil? Where to put its causes? Whom to attribute it to? The answer to these questions, however, would not resolve my problems because these questions already presume a division into two different sides, one of which is white, and the other black, or perhaps one is on the left and the other one on the right and the like. I mean, when I write Id like to be able to avoid simplified divisions in which the writer's role is reduced to that of an ideological PR person who Is always wrong because the utopian ideas eventually slip away pedestrian utilitarianism of somebody's privatel interest, that is even the radical aesthetic concepts eventually fit into a mould Ivana Sajko

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