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From obsession to necessity. And back. FEW SWEATY T-SHIRTS by Dušan Murić Anja Suša [...] Few Sweaty T-Shirts is a title that prompts us to think, primarily because of the author's efforts to formally revitalize his endeavor, that is to create a (self)irony of the ancient artistic need to change the world. Therefore, at the very beginning, he informs us that everything that we are about to see, and everything that we will find in this performance is nothing else but a few sweaty t-shirts, which is further underlined by the fact that several times while performing his solos Murió really changes his t-shirts. If we keep in mind the social context in which Murid's performance is developed - and which is abundant in dramatic potential - this decision of the author seems very interesting. Despite the fact that in the playbill Murió insists that during the work on this project he didn't have any other ambition but to be relaxed, the focal point here is an explicit political statement that, although not explicitly visible on stage, gets a profound elaboration in the second half of the program, suggesting the author's bewilderment and his questioning of his own meaning and the meaning of his profession, and that not only in the context of the contemporary Serbian society, but also in the global context. Murid's written statement is very engaged. Inspired by Zerzan and anarchist theory [...] It is an author who, in addition to his unquestionable physical ability, possesses the kind of mind that has given the prefix think to the contemporary performance. Unless the hard work in guerilla circumstances does not exhaust him, with the way of thinking that he realized in Few Sweaty T-shirts, Dušan Murió could become one of the dominant referential points in the future Serbian theatrical practice. TkH Journal for Performing Arts Theory, N 0.9, Belgrade, 2005