Bitef

30. septembar / is:00 i 20:00 NARODNO POZORIŠTE U BEOGRADU VELIKA SCENA Trajanje: Ih 30’ (bez pauze)

September 30 th / iq:00 and 20:00 NATIONAL THEATRE IN BELGRADE MAIN STAGE Running time: 1h 30’ (without interval)

TEKST / TEXT: Olga Bach REŽIJA, SCENOGRAFIJA I KOSTIM / DIRECTION, SET DESIGN AND COSTUMES: Ersan Mondtag SARADNIK NA KOSTIMIMA I SCENOGRAFIJI / COSTUME AND SET DESIGN ASSOCIATE: Paula Wellmann DRAMATURGIJA / DRAMATURGY: Eva-Maria Bertschy SVETLO / LIGHT DESIGN: Rainer Casper, Rolf Lehmann SUFLER / PROMPTER: Gabriele Suremann ASISTENT REŽIJE /ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR: Jonas Junker INSPICIJENT / STAGE MANAGER: Denis Puzanov ASISTENT SCENOGRAFA / SET DESIGN ASSISTANT: Johannes Frei ASISTENT KOSTIMOGRAFA / COSTUME ASSISTANT: Maïté Forster TEHNIČKI DIREKTOR / TECHNICAL MANAGER: Reinhard zur Heiden UČESTVUJU / WITH: Deleila Piasko, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Lukas Hupfeld, Sebastian Schneider FOTOGRAFIJE / PHOTOGRAPHY: Birgit Hupfeld

REČ SELEKTORA Junači drame veoma mlade nemačke autorke Olge Bah troje su savremenih mladih ljudi koji iskušavaju i zloupotrebljavaju sve slobode savremenog zapadnog društva, proživljavajući ekstazu, ali ih to ne ispunjava več, naprotiv, stvara strah, nesigurnost i bespomoćnu čežnju za iskustvom realnosti. Reditelj Ersan Mondtag vrlo radikalno menja kontekst, izmešta radnju iz savremenog urbanog ambijenta u halucinantni pastoralni svet: tu su veštačko rastinje i Jezerca, plastične šumske životinje, glumci obučeni u kostime golih ljudi - kao strip verzije Adama i Eve. Övakvom treš poetikom, reditelj nudi tumačenje koje možemo citati kao politički komentar: zapadno društvo asocira na idiličnu pastoralu kojoj, kao takvoj, promena ne treba, u kojoj je sigurnost obezbedena, a zapravo je sve tu lažno, hipokritsko, duboko trulo, na ivici ambisa... U rasponu od antieke kosmogonije, s omamljujučom dionizijskom snagom i radošču života (Olimp), do rastočene savremene pastorale i njenih impotentnih junaka ( Istrebljenje ), 51. Bitef opisuje krug „epskog putovanja" koje istražuje kako je i zašto naše vreme „iskočilo iz zgloba".

CURATORS’ WORD The principal characters in this play by a very young German author, Olga Bach, are three modern young people who put to test and abuse all freedoms of the present-day Western society, through attaining ecstasy which, however, fails to give them what they want and instead induces fear, insecurity and helpless longing to experience the reality. Ersan Mondtag, its director, changes the context very radically, transferring the action from the modern urban environment to the hallucinating pastoral world: artificial vegetation and ponds, plastic forest animals, actors clad in costumes representing naked humans - like a cartoon version of Adam and Eve. With this trash poetics, the director offers us an interpretation which can be read as a political comment; the Western society is associative of an idyllic pastoral which, as such, needs no change, in which the security is ensured whilst, in fact, everything there is false, hypocritical, rotten through and through, on the brink of an abyss... Ranging from ancient cosmogony with its inebriating Dionysian force and joy of living (Mount Olympus ) to the disintegrated modern pastoral and its impotent characters (77? e Extermination), the 51 st Bitef closes the circle of an "epic trip” exploring how and why our time is out of joint.