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★ On Trial Together is a hybrid public event between theatre play, choreography, social game, and happening. It takes place in a theatre venue, thereby reaffirming the role of theatre in the symbolization of the social. However, the stage is transformed into a place in public space where citizens discuss issues important to their society and speculate about its future through fiction. The authors base this performance on principles of social, live action and role-playing games, open for all audience members to take part. Each performance is a unique event (episode) as it depends on audience’s playing.

★ “It is difficult to talk about something still emerging from the sea of new theatre trends in which audience as accomplice is not a revolutionary act but a natural substitute for a classical and more often than not passive and dull „participation" in actor’s suffering of a character, of a relationship or a situation... We have been pushed into the new, and that is an almost metaphysical experience, something like a birth in which we are being reinvented. This puts us in the position to not only learn the principles of acting, drama, spectacle, but also the principles of our own sensitivity, with an emphasis on the social and collective aspect of it, with a possibility and desire to fit in or stand out, a possibility or desire for a change.” Igor Burić, Dnevnik

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