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★ „There have been different phases in my experience of Novi Sad. Earlier, in 19905, when I was a university student and when Novi Sad looked like Saigon with all those soldiers and all those war-time things, my experience was loneliness. Later on, when we met again, I prayed that the city accepts me, to establish a positive relationship with it. That is why I wanted to stage this text. To listen, to talk and to provoke actors to speak about certain topics because they are the citizens of this city. It was important for me to lend my ear to Novi Sad, never mind how, directly or indirectly, from my angle, from the angle of my generation although this is not a generational story. We carry within us some notions, some positive prejudices arisen earlier and it is very difficult to come to grips with the fact that that image is from the

past and that the erstwhile concept of a city no longer exists. It exists in traces only. However, the production is not only about Novi Sad, it is not based only on Vegel's novel which is about history. The production tells a story which offers inspiration for a new space, a space in which people are trying to live. We have an image of this environment as a multicultural one but it is time to face up to that other image which does not have that. We boast about notions, multiculturalists and interculturalism when we need them. But we should also start to speak about the real Novi Sad and there the question arises straightaway: which is the real Novi Sad? These are the circles of he 11... Around us, and in us, in relation to how one feels the truth." Urban Andräs, from interview for Radio 021

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