Viewing posts from: February, 2012

25.02.2012.

THE THERAPEUTIC CIRCLE

Male-Female / Women’s-Men’s, directed by: Katarina Pejović, Boris Bakal, produced by: Bacači sjenki & Teatar &TD, Zagreb

By: Vanja Nikolić

When a play creates a gender based separation so that the audience are only men or only women, such separation is bound to continue when afterwards commenting the play at a bar or when writing its review. It is impossible to write a review on something you were not able to see. Hence, this text, as well as the one half of the Bacači sjenki’s play, is intended only for women. If you are a man, look for the man’s opinion.

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25.02.2012.

WORKERS DIE SINGING

Workers Die Singing, directed by: Anđelka Nikolić, produced by: Hartefakt & The Bitef Theater

By: Nikola Skočajić

Olga Dimitirjević’s play Workers Die Singing, was awarded for its socially engaged text by the Hartefakt Fund Competition 2010. When the play was published, its downside was that, although it did not idealise the working class, it did not treat the transition as a problem, i.e. that it was too didactic in its presentation. Workers in an unnamed factory, in an unnamed place put up with the consequences of privatisation and are forced to go on strike that will soon become a radical one. Since they will soon start chopping off their fingers, it is clear which country is to blame. They do not start a hunger strike for better work conditions, but for the basic work conditions.  more >

25.02.2012.

A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FIGHT

Svetislav Basara: Mein Kampf (Laguna, Belgrade, 2011)

By: Ivan Telebar

Fascism has taken over the world. At least according to Kramberger, the storyteller and the main character of Basara’s latest novel Mein Kampf, which unreservedly criticizes and condemns modern variations of Fascism in Serbia, although “elements of Fascism can be found in every nation.” He holds the entire Serbian political system at gunpoint, whose different sides all unite under the common prefix after the fall of the former regime. There is no change, another totalitarian system comes under the guise of democracy instead, and the people does not recognize the deceit of “multi-party dictatorship.” Serbian nation is simultaneously the executioner and the victim because “the historical meaning of Serbian national doctrine and the Serbian state constitute genocide of Serbian people.” This intra-Serbian Fascism coincides with a caste system gone topsy-turvy, where shudras turn to brahmans, and pariahs are still untouchable, but in a completely different way. That is the modern social and political reality in Serbia, criticized by the author himself through the voice of Kramberger. more >

08.02.2012.

Drugi ciklus Criticize This!-a započinje modulom u Zagrebu

Drugi Art Modul u sklopu edukacijskog projekta Criticize This! započet će trodnevnim programom u Zagrebu, a održat će se od 16. do 18. februara. U dijelu programa otvorenom za javnost sudjeluju novinar i pisac Mark Terkessidis, glavni urednik magazinaEurozine Carl Henrik Fredriksson te kustosica i kritičarka Maja Ćirić. Osim predavanja, gosti modula će sudjelovati i u javnom razgovoru naslovljenom Prijateljska vatra. Kako kritika socijalizira kojeg će moderirati Petar Milat, a održat će se zadnjeg  dana programa. Program će se održavati u prostoru net.kulturnog kluba mama (Preradovićeva 18) i književnog kluba Booksa (Martićeva 14d). more >

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