“What are you dreaming about – between dialogue and monologue in contemporary European drama”
18 – 21.11.2024.
What do we dream about? Are dreams the fulfillment of wishes or some other, parallel reality? Do they haunt, inspire or motivate us? How do they move us? In addition to the main theme – dreams, the dramas problematize a number of very different themes such as: parent-child relationships, parallel realities, visions of a better world, loneliness, the search for love, the fragility of emotional balance in adolescence, reflections on ecology through the voices of nature…
Students of the Belgrade Dance Institute Miona Petrović, Mina Ćirić, Kira Photion and Evan Linden will participate in the performance of the Festival of European Drama (FED) which will be held from November 18 to 21 in the Belgrade Drama Theater. The festival is held under the slogan “What are you dreaming about – between dialogue and monologue in contemporary European drama” organized by the BDP, the association Silver Tree and Treći Trg. The FED European Drama Festival presents seven contemporary, multiple award-winning playwrights from the Czech Republic, Portugal, Belgium , Sweden, Romania, Norway and Cyprus.
During the festival, seven pieces written in lesser-used European languages will be presented: Czech, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Swedish, Romanian and Norwegian.
The festival will open on November 18 with the premiere of the play “Dance in the Water” by the Czech author David Drabek directed by Dina Radoman, and from November 19 to 21 there will be six public readings of plays by the most outstanding and highly awarded contemporary European playwrights who will be guests of the festival and with whom discussions will be organized after the reading. The play “Dance in the Water” by the Czech playwright and director of the middle generation David Drabek, directed by Dina Radoman confession about the impossibility of an authentic life in today’s society and follows in a tragicomic and surreal way.
The piece “Dancing in the Water” by the Czech playwright and director of the middle generation David Drabek, directed by Dina Radoman, is a confession about the impossibility of an authentic life in today’s society and follows the lives of three friends in a tragicomic surreal way.
The scenography is signed by the director and Romana Bošković, costume design by Ana Troćiš Trajković, music by LP duo – Andrija Pavlović and Sonja Lončar, stage movement by Miona Petrović, lighting design by Sonja Žugić, and sound design by Marko Kekezović, translation by Tihana Hamović. Starring: Arsenije Arsić, Bratislav Zdravković, Rista Milutinović, Una Rakić, Nikola Mijatović and Anja Jovanović.
For the program of public readings, six plays were selected: “Sagrada familia” by Žasinto Lukaš Pireš from Portugal, translated by Jovan Tatić, directed by Marta Đorđević;”Here We Go Again” by Anelis Verbeke from Belgium, translated by Bojana Budimir, directed by Nikola Bundala; “Hunger” by Haralambos Janu from Cyprus, translated by Saša Đorđević, directed by Nevena Dimitrijević; “Animals on the Run” by Kristina Uzunidis, from Sweden, translated by Svetlana Tot, directed by Nemanja Mijović; “Green Cat” by Elisa Vilk from Romania, translated by Simone Popov, directed by Tara Mitrović; and as a special event, “Shadows” by Nobel laureate Jun Fosse from Norway, translated by Radoš Kosović, directed by Katarina Vještica. After the reading, discussions with the authors will be held, moderated by Vesna Perić.
