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Dijana Milosevic

THE STORY OF TEA

Variation on thè theme of Three Sisters by A.P. Chekhov Dramaturgy and direction: Dijana Milosevic Performers: Jugoslav Hadzic, Aleksandra Jelic, Sanja Krsmanovic-Tasic, Maja Mitic Music (composed and played by): Aleksandra Damnjanovic, Nebojsa Ignjatovic, Jugoslav Hadzic Set-design: Mesa Paripovic Costumes: Milena Ristic Light-design: Radomir Stamenkovic Objects crafted by: Nikola Tasic- ARBOS Translation: Sanja KrsmanovicTasic Photos: Jovan Cekic Program Design :Koan Studios Organization: Elizabeta Kurela and Suzana Tasic Anovic Organizer Dah Theatre Reserch Geniere: Kristina Mladenovic Texts: Ruth Magraff, A.P. Chekhov Three Sisters, Kakuzo Okakura The Book ofTea, three haiku poems by Basho, Dave Duggan AH 6905, documaterials collected by Human Rights Fund and Women in Black, Fragments from daily news, information from internet, DAH Teatar The new performance of DAH Theatre takes as its point of departure the classic play by A. P. Chekhov Three Sisters. The play serves as a reference point; the frame which holds different Stories and topics together. The central theme of the play - the train that will eventually take sisters to their dream place, Moscow, or the Situation of missing opportunities and lost chances - inspired and provoked several important issues that DAH Theatre's versión of Three Sisters is dealing with. Trains and missing opportunities lead to missing people, missing languages and missing truths. This performance explores the meaning of memory in relation to truth - especially harsh truth.The question which thè performance puts in focus is not about hidden truths but rather about how we treat harsh truth. What happens when for example the truth about the abduction of people in a train, during the wars in our región, is known and recognized, even on the level of the state, but until today victims have not been officially mourned and their families have never heard one word of condolence? What are the implications of the mass of information that we get today through media, information that is not properly or humanely treated. What is the role of memory? What are theforms of amnesia of our times and how to create the ritual of anamnesis? "The forgetting that the anamnesis seeks to undo is the forgetting that takes place whenever violence is justified". DAH Teatar thanks : Humanitarian Law Center and Women in Black, Rachael Lindsay, Boban Stojanovic and patisserie"Mali princ" DAH Teatar speciaily thanks Ruth Magraff and Mikos Brisco. Supported by: The City Council of Beigrade- Secretary of Culture The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia Pro Helvetia Tea House and bookshop"Apropo"