On 12th of March 2024, at 8pm, we will host the performance Država Dada-Jok, with which the Srpsko narodno vijeće - Department of Culture from Zagreb is visiting our theatre.
The play is based on the text and directed by the Belgrade writer Adam Ranđelović and the cast is composed of young Zagreb actors, students of the Academy of Dramatic Arts: Dorotea Ilečić Sever, Damian Humski and Lovro Rimac. The narrator of the play and the author of the entire soundtrack and music is Lujo Parežanin, a comparative journalist and jazz musician from Zagreb.
The core of the performance, as well as the original inspiration for its creation, is a tribute to the first Dadaist manifestation in Yugoslavia - the Osijek Matinee of August 1922. The performance, although non-linear, but consistently covers a more or less apocryphal history of the development of Dadaism in the world (whose members include Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Miroslav Krleža, Filipo Tomazo Marinetti, Radomir Konstantinović and, in his own way, Adolf Hitler), with an awareness of all its dialectical nuances: West - East, global - local, internationalism - nationalism, and above all the conflict between Dadaism and Zenitism, which goes beyond the story of the clash between the "appropriated" Dadaistic and the "indigenous" (Yugoslavian) Zenitistic idea on the fragile, fresh soil of the recently founded Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
The performance uses a number of documentary materials, mostly unknown (Raul Hausman's Dadaist testament) or erased from collective memory (a dialogue between the leader of Italian Futurism Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Zenitist Branko Ve Poljanski on the fascist terror against Croats and Slovenes), with the painstaking work of domestic anthologists to nationalise the Yugoslav historical avant-gardes.
Tickets are available at the Mini teater box office every weekday between 9am and 3pm or via Eventim.
