Cekaonica 3

The text, whose authors are Boris Lijesevic and Branko Dimitrijevic, is the first official case in Serbia of a verbatim play, as a base for verbatim theatre. It is a form of a documentary, a text made by adapting a series of conversation by the authors with real people, who revealed their real, authentic experience in facing the consequences of social transition. The concept of the play is specific, it does not have classical, Aristotelian characters, nor a linear story, only fragments that form a lively mosaic of existence in today’s Serbia. The stage in the play is completely bare and desolate, illusion is expelled, even the chairs on which the actors sit or lie are theatre chairs on which the audience is placed. This is a complete stripping of the play, abolition of illusion and direct confrontation of the viewer with the important questions posed in the play, which assume a socio-political significance ...