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Location: Little Theatre Dusko Radovic Duration: 1h 15' Age: 13 + Price: 500 dinars Elizabeta Zemljic: "I grew up in Sweden and spent the major part of my teenage years up in the north, but my seminal memory from that period, the memory of vital importance is from Serbia. That is where for the first time I met with what one calls great love, with what moves every teenager and that one believes will last the lifetime. Regardless of whether, at that particular moment, our love is met with love or goes unrequited... What is the difference between a teenager in Sweden and a teenager in Serbia? Is there any difference? Yes, there is. A big difference I became aware of precisely as I was working on this play... The young people in Serbia are conscious of the daily politics in a manner in which the young in Sweden will never have to be../' Nikola Zavisic: "Although I'm the text's author, I find it far from easy to explain how it came about. 1 spent more than two years writing it. My task was to write a theatre piece about the experience I gained befriending and working with children in Filip Visnjic Elementary School in Karaburma.They directly inspired the text whose life on stage you are following. I was with them for a school-year and a half and became sufficiently close to them and lucky enough to hear about their lives, problems, dilemmas and ideas. Along with these friendships, this textual mosaic grew and developed and it is the substance of what I learned about those children..." TEENAGE CLUB Truths about Growing Up was realised as a part of the project Future of the Uppsala Stadsteater, Sweden, and the Little Theatre Dusko Radovic, Belgrade, The project was launched in 2005 and is a part of a broader project called On Europe's Periphery sponsored by the Swedish Institute.

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