Deaf Dorian Gray

The Inclusive Potential of Utopia

The new production of PLAVO Theatre was performed on May 5, June 7, 14 and 21, 2025 in Serbian spoken and Serbian Sign language, while the performance on October 3, 2025, was performed in spoken English and Serbian, as well as in international Signs, as part of the program Two Open Weeks of PLAVO Theatre 2025.

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Adapting, scenario and directing: Nenad Čolić

Performers: Vera Jovanović, Stojan Simić, Darko Nikolić, Marko Potkonjak

Assistant director: Marko Potkonjak

Executive manager: Dubravka Vujinović

Translation into international Signs: Vera Jovanović

Scenery and costume: Ivana Čolić

Design of visual material: Ivana Čolić

Artistic and technical associate: Dejan Stojković

Photography: Jelena Mitrović

Production: PLAVO Theatre – theatre laboratory 2025

Supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia

Texts: Oscar Wilde – ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ (novel), ‘Socialism and Human Soul’ (essey),

’De profundis’ (letters); Julian Beck – Questions; director’s personal texts

“The essential theme of this play can be called a ‘meeting’, the meeting of two worlds, the world of the Deaf and the world of the hearing. Oscar Wilde and his works, ‘Socialism and the Human Soul’ and ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, have become extraordinary narratives that have given that meeting a third dimension, the dimension of community. The artistic aspect of that togetherness has enabled the result that we have been seeking. And that result is an environment of equality, which in our opinion should be the goal of every inclusive project.”

Nenad Čolić, PLAVO Theatre

A map of the world that does not include Utopia, is not worth event glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which the Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing a better country, sets sail! Progress is the realization of Utopias!

Oscar Wilde