Today, a press conference was held at the Sarajevo War Theatre for the start of work on the play “Othello”, a co-production project of the Sarajevo War Theatre and the Ulysess Theatre. The play “Othello” by William Shakespeare will be directed by Oksana Dmitriieva, and the creative team includes Ukrainian authors, scenographer and costume designer Mykhayl Nikolyev, composer Kateryna Palachova and choreographer Inna Falkova.
\nDramaturge of the play is Nejra Babi\u0107, and collaborators on the project are Rade \u0160erbed\u017eija and Lenka Udovi\u010dki.
\nThe play features members of the Sarajevo War Theatre SARTR: Alban Ukaj, Sne\u017eana Bogi\u0107evi\u0107, Jasenko Pa\u0161i\u0107, Maja Salki\u0107, Davor Sabo, Adnan Kreso, three guest actors Ermin Bravo, Mehmed Por\u010da and Mak \u010cengi\u0107, as well as Croatian actress Ana Marija Br\u0111anovi\u0107.<\/p>\n
Today’s press conference was given by the director of the play Oksana Dmitriieva, Rade \u0160erbed\u017eija and Lenka Udovi\u010dki as co-producers, dramaturg Nejra Babi\u0107 and the acting ensemble of the play.
\nMaja Salki\u0107, the director of the Sarajevo War Theatre, addressed those present at the press conference, expressing her great satisfaction with the fact that SARTR provided shelter to Ukrainian artists with this project, and that this project is therefore bigger than the play itself. She also expressed satisfaction that for the first time a play based on the text of the great William Shakespeare is being performed, expressing her great gratitude to Rade \u0160erbed\u017eija and Lenka Udovi\u010dki, who with their experience are a great support for the project and who came forward with the idea of \u200b\u200bcooperation with Ukrainian artists only a few days after that she herself tried to find contacts of Ukrainian artists for cooperation. She emphasised that the SARTR ensemble already had the opportunity to meet the creative team from Ukraine led by director Oksana Dmitriieva in February, when the workshops were held.<\/p>\n
\nLenka Udovi\u010dki pointed out that this is already the third co-production of Ulysess Theatre with a theatre from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the first with SARTR, which was a logical choice as a theatre that was created during the war. She pointed out that the Ulysess Theatre was also created as an artistic response to the war events 30 years ago, and that they, last year when the invasion of Ukraine began, started making contacts with artists from Ukraine, and that’s how they got to know Oksana, and that’s how the collaboration began and finally the beginning of the realisation of the play “Othello”.<\/p>\n
The director Oksana Dmitriieva expressed great gratitude for being a guest in Sarajevo, gratitude for showing interest in what is currently happening in Ukraine, gratitude for the warmth and friendly hand in the moments when she was lost and when she had to learn how to live and work in wartime. She expressed her great satisfaction that this project brings together a large team from several countries and hopes that it will achieve success and push the boundaries.<\/p>\n
Rade \u0160erbed\u017eija described this project with a quote “When something has to happen, it happens at the behest of time.” He pointed out that we live in difficult times, in a terrible vortex, and that it is of crucial importance when war trumpets are the only music we hear, that the artistic trumpets should be even louder. He emphasised that this project is so accurate and correct, through which experiences are exchanged, and that it represents the urgent order of time and a tribute to the theatre where it takes place.<\/p>\n
Actor Ermin Bravo pointed out that, like most artists in Sarajevo, he felt the need and responsibility to show the people of Ukraine that they are not alone, because the people of Sarajevo remember how important it was to them during the war. He pointed out that this project is bigger than the play itself, especially because “Othello” is a piece that talks about warriors returning from war and how they manage in peacetime conditions. Considering that Ukraine is currently at war, and our experience of war has already passed, the story of this piece is somewhere in between.<\/p>\n
Rehearsals on the SARTR stage will last until July 8. then the process of creation continues in Brijuni from 8.7. until 21.7.2023. when is the planned premiere and 7 shows in the Minor Fortress on Mali Brijun. The premiere on the stage of the Sarajevo War Theatre is planned for the fall of 2023. The performance “Othello” will be in the regular repertoire of SARTR from September 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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