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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 >

22.12.2011.

To love your country, there is no need for advertising?!

Patriotic Supermarket, directed by Dino Mustafić, a Kulturanova Association (Novi Sad), Multimedia Centre (Prishtina) and Bitef Theatre (Belgrade) co-production

By: Vanja Nikolić

We will understand each other! We are talking! are the sentences that are being cried out, just like slogans, at the end of Patriotic Supermarket. Bearing in mind the play premiered during another round of important, but unsuccessful negotiations between Belgrade and Prishtina, Serbia and Kosovo, Serbian politicians and the European Union, it is obvious the meaning of these words comes across as extremely ironic. The only ones who are not talking to each other on a global level are the Albanians and the Serbs, constantly finding themselves in the crossfire.

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