On December 13 and 20, 2025, at 8:30 PM, PLAVO Theatre premiered its new production “SURREALISTIC NEGATION.”
Direction: Nenad Čolić / Assistant Director: Maša Jelić / Performers: Dejan Stojković, Marko Potkonjak / Set Design, Costume and Visual Design: Ivana Čolić / Executive Director: Dubravka Vujinović / Photography: Dragan Mihajlović / Text: Jerzy Grotowski: “As You Are, Whole”, F. M. Dostoevsky: “The Brothers Karamazov”, and the director’s original text
“If a character is of no use, then we discard it as something unnecessary, because we are searching for the profound character of our own life. And that character is not acted—it simply is. This is always a precious and exciting experience, because it is a process of freeing ourselves from ourselves and, at the same time, a process of discovering our striving and our need for another being within us, for an encounter with that other being—an encounter in which, in a way, we cease to be ‘us.’
This performance is an expression of PLAVO Theatre’s gratitude to Jerzy Grotowski, because his works have always been an inspiration in our work, and this performance is dedicated to all those who believe that Grotowski’s ideas may one day be of great importance for the survival of theatrical art.”
— Nenad Čolić, director of PLAVO Theatre
The performance was created within the project In Defense of the Margin of Society – 30 Years of PLAVO Theatre, with the support of the Culture for Democracy program implemented by the Hartefakt Foundation, with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
