The play was created as a co-production of Sarajevo War Theatre SARTR, Realstage, and Ulysses Theatre – directed by Selma Spahi\u0107.<\/p>\n
From the reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n Theatrical Bomb from Brijuni. ‘The World and Everything in It’ is a Strike to the Heart and Mind<\/strong><\/p>\n The play, based on Hemon’s novel, takes us to the battlefield of gay intimacy and history.<\/p>\n (…) And it blazes with a miraculous exchange of ethical and aesthetic treasures, honesty and vulnerability. At moments you’re not sure whether everything around you is the product of artificial intelligence or your brothers and sisters who desperately share your worst and best dreams. “The World and Everything in It” is of such noble breed – a theatrical adaptation of the masterful novel “The Lazarus Project” by Bosnian-Herzegovinian writer of American addresses Aleksandar Hemon<\/strong>. One of the most beautiful love stories ever, written within two Sarajevo recruits, Sephardic Jew Rafael and Muslim Osman, whose love blazes on the fronts of the First World slaughter, is Hemon’s iron bloodstream from which he composes a symphony about history that devours its children. (…)<\/p>\n (…) Fantastically experienced interplay between Ermin Bravo<\/strong> and Alban Ukaj.<\/strong><\/p>\n (…) Director Spahi\u0107’s constructive forces are truly impressive. Set designer Lili Ansch\u00fctz<\/strong>, costume designer Selena Orb<\/strong>, choreographer Ena Kurtali\u0107<\/strong>, and composers Dra\u0161ko Ad\u017ei\u0107<\/strong> and Damir Imamovi\u0107<\/strong> sovereignly provide unbridled evidence of the raw, crude, and fairy-tale babbling of human straw in this world. “The meaning of life is not to be dead, you live so you won’t die. And that’s it,” is a sentence that quietly seethes from every diaspora of Selma’s team.<\/p>\n Telegram, July 21, 2025. Author: Davor \u0160pi\u0161i\u0107<\/strong> https:\/\/www.telegram.hr\/kultura\/kazalisna-bomba-s-brijuna-svijet-i-sve-u-njemu-udar-je-na-srce-i-um\/<\/a><\/p>\n A Long Kiss on the Lips Between the Two of Them, Muslim and Jew, Silenced the Audience on Brijuni. Wonderful Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n The play ‘The World and Everything in It’ on Brijuni is the best I’ve seen this year. I would say it’s a more serious work of art than the novel.<\/p>\n (…) To put it briefly, the play “The World and Everything in It” produced by Sarajevo War Theatre, abbreviated SARTR, and directed by Selma Spahi\u0107<\/strong> is the best play I’ve seen this year. It was performed on Veliki Brijun as part of the celebration of Ulysses Theatre’s 25th anniversary, as a co-production, and premiered in January this year in Sarajevo. On Brijuni it was performed under the starry sky, and fewer than a hundred spectators in the Summer Cinema sit in the middle of a “fortress” whose walls are made of plywood on which actors climb, across which light spreads and smoke rises. So the boundary between audience and performance is abolished as much as possible; the viewing space becomes the action space, and the protagonists, who circle the “ramparts,” sometimes perform right next to your ear or eye.<\/p>\n (…) Ermin Bravo<\/strong> and Alban Ukaj<\/strong> masterfully interpret the characters of Jew Rafael and Muslim Osman. Their long kiss on the lips silenced the audience as if both would now jump off a bridge.<\/p>\n (…) Throughout the performance, theatricality actually grows, emotions grow, and the circle closes. Playing, equally inspiringly in order, are Sne\u017eana Bogi\u0107evi\u0107<\/strong>, Tatjana \u0160oji\u0107<\/strong>, Kemal Rizvanovi\u0107<\/strong>, Igor Skvarica<\/strong>, Hana Zrno<\/strong>, and Faruk Hajdarevi\u0107<\/strong>. Particularly worth highlighting is the beautiful and convincing acting of Sne\u017eana Bogi\u0107evi\u0107<\/strong> as Rahela, Osman’s daughter, whom she plays from birth to adulthood with much passion and patience.<\/p>\n Jutarnji list, July 24, 2025. Author: Tomislav \u010cade\u017e<\/strong> https:\/\/www.jutarnji.hr\/kultura\/kazaliste\/dug-poljubac-u-usta-izmedu-njih-dvojice-muslimana-i-zidova-publiku-je-na-brijunima-utisao-divna-predstava-15606864<\/a><\/p>\n