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AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES - OUR CONTEMPORARIES The latest performance directed by Nikita Milivojevic, My Homeland - Seven Dreams, functions equally well on the site where the Greek tragedy was born, on the site where our tragedy from the end of the XX century was born, and the site that was supposed to be dedicated to the tragedy of the God-Man. This performance, inspired by Hellenic motifs as seen through the eyes of Greek tragedians, and today seen through the eyes of our contemporary director, performed by the bodies of our actors, also contemporaries, is a proof that the fate of mankind is universal, and the tragedy immanent in our existence. Originality of the author's idea lies in the fact that the motifs of a myth are seen as dreams. Those dreams often look like child's game, and we soon realize how quickly it turns into a crying game. For a moment those dreams appear as a lyrical reverie, but they soon turn into a nightmare. And when we wake up, the worst will happen, the reality will look like a fratricidal hell. There is no evil that fell upon the Greek heroes that would not fall upon us. There is no tragedy inflicted on the creatures from myths and legends that we would not recognize as our tragedy. Long ago we have left behind the old-fashioned conviction that tragedy cannot happen in our time because there are no sublime beings. No, exactly there lies the greatness of the Greek tragedians, in that they described tragedies that happen in our and any time and will keep happening forever and ever. It is not the question of sublimeness, but of a universal and recognizable fate of mankind. If it weren't so, the tragedies written by the Hellenes would not concern us at all. Jovan Cirilov