Directed By: Live Bizovic
Premiere: January 2025
Performances
Friday / 31. 1. / 19: 00 / Mail / Premiere
Cast
Primoz Bezjak
Natasha Keser
Boris Kos
Kaja Petrovich
Stane Tomazin
Creators
Dramaturgy: Nik Znidarsic
Set design and video: Dorian Shilec Friday
Costume Design: Nina Chekhovin
Music and sound design: Jan Krmelj, Gasper Lovrec
Editor: Mateja Dermelj
Show host: Liam Hlede / Ursa Cherv
Description
The starting point of the project is a war photo of an embraced dead couple on the Vrbanja bridge. In 1993, a Muslim woman, Admira Ismi, and an Orthodox man, Bosko Brki, tried to flee from Occupied Sarajevo, but were shot a few meters before the border by an unknown sniper. Two Americans, photographer Mark H. Milstein and journalist Kurt Schork, called the couple "Sarajevo Romeo and Juliet" despite the opposition of both families and created a sensationalist story from the tragic death of two young people, and from their corpses an image and symbol of love mowed down by war. Photography thus hides a whole bunch of unanswered questions about how the public reacts to such images, and whether some stories, some lives are more important than others. Beyond the framework of a concrete shot, however, a broader problem of war photography opens up: its purpose, goal, ethics, effectiveness, the ability to shock today. When it is so torn between glorifying the violence of war and pointing out the horrors of war, it is in a similar position to a play – it is about a thing that cannot be put into words.
Režija: Živa Bizovičar
Premiera: januar 2025
Predstave
petek / 31. 1. / 19:00 / Pošta / Premiera
Zasedba
Primož Bezjak
Nataša Keser
Boris Kos
Kaja Petrovič
Stane Tomazin
Ustvarjalci
Dramaturgija: Nik Žnidaršič
Scenografija in video: Dorian Šilec Petek
Kostumografija: Nina Čehovin
Glasba in oblikovanje zvoka: Jan Krmelj, Gašper Lovrec
Lektorica: Mateja Dermelj
Vodja predstave: Liam Hlede/Urša Červ
Opis
Izhodišče projekta je vojna fotografija objetega mrtvega para na mostu Vrbanja. Muslimanka Admira Ismić in pravoslavec Boško Brkić sta leta 1993 poskušala zbežati iz okupiranega Sarajeva, vendar ju je nekaj metrov pred mejo ustrelil še danes neznani ostrostrelec. Dva Američana, fotograf Mark H. Milstein in novinar Kurt Schork, sta par kljub nasprotovanju obeh družin poimenovala »sarajevska Romeo in Julija« in iz tragične smrti dveh mladih ljudi ustvarila senzacionalistično zgodbo, iz njunih trupel pa podobo in simbol ljubezni, ki jo je pokosila vojna. V fotografiji se tako skriva cel kup neodgovorljivih vprašanj o tem, kako javnost reagira na tovrstne podobe, in o tem, ali so nekatere zgodbe, nekatera življenja pomembnejša od drugih. Onkraj okvira konkretnega posnetka pa se odpira širša problematika vojne fotografije: njenega namena, cilja, etičnosti, učinkovitosti, zmožnosti šokiranja danes. Ko je tako razpeta med poveličevanje vojnega nasilja in opozarjanje na vojne grozote, je v podobnem položaju kot predstava – govori o stvari, ki je ni mogoče ubesediti.