Bitef

27 th SEPTEMBER

DURATION: 105’

20.00,

BITEF THEATRE

★ BILJANA SRBLJANOVIĆ (Stockholm, 1970) is one of the most significant modern playwrights in Serbia. She graduated in dramaturgy from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and teaches there as assistant professor since 1996. As a student she cooperated with Miloš Radovič in creating Open door series and wrote the script for most of its episodes. Her plays have been translated into more than twenty languages, staged in over a hundred theatres the world over and published in several languages in Europe. She is the author, among other things of Belgrade trilogy (1997), Family stories (1998), The Fall (2000), Supermarket (2001), America part two (2003), Locusts (2005), Barbelo (2007) and Death is not a bicycle to be stolen from you (2011). She is a five-time winner of Sterija Award in addition to Osvajanje Slobode, Dragiša Kašiković, Slobodan Selenie awards, Annual Award for Dramatic Art of the City of Belgrade, Joakim Vujič Statuette and the highest European award Premio Europa - New Theatrical Realities. She is completing her doctoral studies in the theory of dramatic arts, media and culture at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. She is a Fulbright alumni and was a visiting lecturer at universities in New York, Vienna, Milano and Florence. Srbljanović is a founder of the Writers Forum and winner of the French Order for Arts and Letters, activist in the field of animal - and sometimes human - rights. A long-standing contributor to PeščanIk, in Serbia publishes on Twitter.

★ DINO MUSTAFIĆ (Sarajevo, 1969) graduated in direction from the Academy of Stage Arts in Sarajevo and world literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. He has staged works in many theatres and cities in the region: Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Sofia, Ljubljana, Rijeka, Trieste, Split, Maribor, Skopje, Pristina, Podgorica... His productions have been performed in different languages and won awards at many domestic and international festivals: Cairo, Rome, Madrid, Bogota, Guadalajara, Paris, London, Sibiu, Vratsa, San Jose, Rijeka, Zagreb, Novi Sad... Helvers Night produced by Kamerni Teatar 55 has made history in Bosnian and Herzegovinian theatre as it has won twenty-three international prizes. He has staged more than fifty plays by classics and modern authors. Mustafie is also the author of a number of documentary films and a feature film Remake which participated in more than forty festivals and won awards in Munich and San Francisco. From January 2003 until December 2005 he was the artistic director of the Drama Section of the National Theatre in Sarajevo. As of 1997 he heads the international festival MESS which he and his associates brought back to life after the siege of Sarajevo.

CREDITS: Director: Dino Mustafie Dramaturgists: Željka Udovičić, Božo Koprivica Composer: Draško Adžić Set design: Dragutin Broz Costume design: Darinka Mihajlović Choreography: Sonja Vukićević Sound recording and processing: Dobrivoje Milijanović Stage speech: Dr Dejan Sredojević Performers; Milan Marič, Svetozar Cvetkovič, Ermin Bravo, Marko Janketič, Amila Terzimehić Cello: Aleksandar Latković/Nebojša Jankovič Producer: Andrej Nosov Executive production: Vladimir Dekić and Janko Dimitrijević Head engineer: Ljubomir Radivojević Stage manager: Maja Jovanovič Sound: Miroljub Vladić, Nikola Marjanovič Lighting: Dragan Đurković, Milan Neić Stage hands: Aleksandar Marinkovič. Goran Gavrančič, Vladan Miloševič Wardrobe mistress; Marta Narančić Photography: Vladimir Miladinovič Production: Heartefact Coproduction: Bitef teatar (Serbia), Kamerni teatar 55 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Kazaliśte Ulysses (Croatia), Testament films (Serbia), International Theatre and Film Festival MESS (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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