SHOWCASE OF SERBIAN THEATRE

The main purpose of the side programme Showcase of Serbian Theatre, which is organized every year, is to offer an opportunity for foreign guests to get a glimpse into theatre production in Serbia. Creating it, the artistic team is led mostly by high artistic standards of the chosen performances which do not necessarily have to match the artistic or thematic stream of the main programme. Still, each of this year’s four selected performances seem to somehow correspond with this year’s festival main topic thus establishing a unique dialogue with the main programme.

 

After last year’s „trip“ to Subotica, when the audience saw theatre production in Hungarian, Showcase at this 52nd Bitef is dedicated to presenting the production of the most relevant Belgrade theatres. Since one production by the National Theatre in Belgrade has been selected in the main programme, and the Showcase will show the performances produced by Atelje 212, Bitef Theatre and Belgrade Drama Theatre, the audience will be presented with an opportunity to get acquainted with the contemporary Belgrade theatre production.

REGIME OF LOVE

REGIME OF LOVE

Regime of Love is a comedy in which the playwright explores, analyzes, comments on and criticizes various arrangements of amorous pairings in the contemporary cultural context of instant communications via social networks, online dating sites and apps, as well as the problems in communication between partners, the participants of certain amorous arrangement: monogamic relationship, serial monogamy, cheating in a relationship, triangles, celibacy, marriages… everything down to facing the phenomenon of polyamory (an amorous relationship - sexual and emotional - which involves more subjects in various modes of pairing). Regime of Love is a play commissioned by Atelje ...

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JAMI DISTRICT

JAMI DISTRICT

  JAMI DISTRICT is a theater performance which tackles the notions of nation and national states in the high-tech world of the 21st century. Starting with the fact that nation is a construct and a term developed in the 19th century, this performance asks a question: how did the 19th century invention manage to look as if it has been there forever? Do we still need the “good” old nations, in the era of Internet, artificial intelligence and modern medicine? What will replace nations and national states? And who’s worse : nations or corporations? By the end of the 21st century, it is expected for most intellectual and physical work to be done by ...

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THE RIDICULOUS DARKNESS

THE RIDICULOUS DARKNESS

I just think dance is really relevant. You're able to work with a complexity that you could never do if you were working with images or texts alone. I mean you can work with sensation and you can work with abstraction, entering many physical worlds, or even the way we perceive how we are human, how we're alive or how…Is this my body? Why am I moving? Who is moving whom? There's a complexity that's hard to articulate in words. Meg Stuart (Jonathan Burrows, Interview with Meg Stuart, Luna Café, Brussels, March 12th 1998)   There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to ...

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CLOCHEMERLE

CLOCHEMERLE

Based on the eponymous satirical play by Gabriel Chevallier, Clochemerle is a performance about an attempt of quasi-modernization of the traditional surrounding as a mode of political strategy. The main narrative, written in the context of modernist development of western society in the first half of the 20th century, has been used as a unique ground for identification of current social and political contents in transitional societies, such as ours. The clash between traditional and modern approach to social development is explained through ruptures in the functioning of an isolated community. These cracks are, like hyperboles, presented in the performance, as well as in the ...

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