Script and Direction: Nenad Čolić
Actors: Maša Jelić, Dejan Stojković, Marko Potkonjak, Vera Jovanović
Set and Costume Design: Ivana Čolić
Visual Design: Ivana Čolić
Sign Language Interpretation: Vera Jovanović
Executive director: Dubravka Vujinović
Texts used: Virginia Woolf – Three Guineas, Sophocles – Antigone, and quotes by Albert Einstein, F.M. Dostoevsky, and V.I. Lenin
Premiere: May 13th, 2023, PLAVO Theatre
Production: PLAVO Theatre – Theatre Laboratory
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia
Festivals:
– Ex Theatre Fest 2023, Pančevo
– Nišville Jazz Theatre 2023, Niš
– 20 Years of Teatr ZAR 2023, Wrocław, Poland (supported by the European Union through the Culture Moves Europe programme)
– OFF Europa 2024 – Leipzig, Germany
“In this world we live in and believe we know—or at least think we know—every man is in some way a ‘Ruler’, and every woman is to some extent a ‘Feminist’. The only question is how aware they are of it, or how much they are willing to become aware. These two positions are opposed, standing in confrontation, because the Ruler seeks domination, while the Feminist resists it and strives for a relationship of equality between two equal sides.”
As utopian as it may sound, the idea of equality and gender equity has always been one of the core aspirations of PLAVO Theatre—something that defines both our existence and our continuity.
Over time, another dimension of equality became just as important in our work: equality with people with disabilities. We wanted to create a performance that would be equally and fully accessible—in this case—to Deaf individuals, to the greatest extent possible, just as it is to so-called hearing people. And we aimed to achieve this not through the conventional use of sign language, but by integrating interpretation directly into the performance itself, as a full-fledged element of the acting and artistic expression. We hope we have succeeded in that.
I PSYCHI TIS ANTIGONIS is an anti-war, sentimental farce—perhaps precisely because, in this moment, it can be nothing else.
