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earnestly, resorting to repression as the policy of least resistance and trying to restrain those children by force, certain that every new generation is worse than the previous one. The author avoids pathos and resorts to his characteristic sense of humour to show that not all is as dramatic as it seems... Penal Saturday is therefore, although it presents characters whose problems are far from irrelevant, full of authentic and precious hope. It would be important for those whose life it addresses the adolescents, to see this play. Pena! Saturday is a part of the programme of reading yet unstaged plays within the Gems in the Administrator's Drawer of Parobrod Cultural Institution. During the past two years this programme has been identified as a rare initiative whose primary objective is to support young authors. The co-production with the Belgrade Youth Club has made it possible to acquaint with it a larger audience. The public reading will be preceded by Open Forum moderated by director Stevan Bodroža, editor of Gems in the Administrator's Drawer. The forum will continue after the reading with the participation of the author and participants of the workshop School Forum Theatre for School without Violence , the moderator, pupils, their teachers and the audience. This will be followed by the film The Breakfast Club. Supported by UNICEF and the Unit for the Prevention of Violence of the Ministry of Education and Science of Serbia (School without Violence programme)

23 rd SEPTEMBER, 17.00 Centre for Cultural Decontamination Backa Teater, Göteborg, Sweden ★ ACTS OF GOODNESS Stage performance Duration: 120’ (including the discussion with the production authors) Director: Mattias Anderson Set and costume design: Ulla Kassius Make-up artist: Linda Boije af Gennas Lighting design: Tomas Fredriksson Music and sound design; Jonas Redig Dramaturgy: Stefan Akesson Production: Lisa Nowotny Photography: Ola Kjellbye Performers: Bahador Foladi, Karin de Frumerie, David Fukamachi Regnfors, Ylva Gallon. Anna Marling, Ove Wolf Is there such a thing as a good deed? Or is it simply selfishness in disguise? Mattias Andersson explores goodness as the driving force behind human actions. Acts of Goodness is a theatre examination of the questionable concept of goodness which is not trendy... In a broad project with interviews young people across Europe: Greece, Serbia, Germany, France, Rumania, Hungary, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden, were asked if they had ever done a good deed. The production brings their stories, describes their deeds and the reality and sentiments prevalent in today’s Europe. The stories make up a modern document about Europe ravaged by the economic crisis, usually described as a continent through

which selfishness, greed, racism and brutality spread. Starting from specific situations in which individuals could do something, suddenly and unexpectedly, that could be called a good deed we hope to present a picture of our world in a new and surprising light and brutality spread. Starting from specific situations in which individuals could do something, suddenly and unexpectedly, that could be called a good deed we hope to present a picture of our world in a new and surprising light. Acts of Goodness explore alternative models and narratives to describe the motives of people so routinely used in media news and stories. The dramaturg and theatre director Mattias Andersson and the theatre’s company have given shape to the collected material. Acting, music, recorded voices, pictures and choreography create a performance in which the audience is the most important factor. In the theatre the audience and the actors together examine what could be a ‘good deed' and how somebody’s personal story can be manifested in something that could be called theatre. Supported by the Swedish Institute SI

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