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X REČ SELEKTORA

Proslavljeni nemačko-švajcarski autor i reditelj Milo Rau dolazi na Bitef s relativno kamernom predstavom Saosećanje. Istorija mitraljeza u produkciji čuvenog pozorišta Šaubine iz Berlina. Reč je o uzbudljivom, pseudodokumentarnom pozorištu u kome se, u ambijentu opšteg raspada ili otpada zapadne civilizacije, suočavaju i prožimaju dve ispovedno-fiktivne Perspektive o genocidima u Africi, koje otelotvoruju dve glumice - jedna afričkog, a druga švajcarskog porekla. Ova predstava pomera fokus sa same izbegličke krize na jedan od njenih uzroka - ziočine u gradanskim ratovima u Africi, a za koje odgovornost imaju i zapadna društva. Na primer, da li se, kada smo iskreno i duboko potreseni fotografijom mrtvog tela malog izbeglice, zapitamo kakva je odgovornost našeg društva za stradanja koja su to nesrećno dete i njegovu porodicu oterala od kuće? •

x O PREDSTAVI

Milo Rau i njegov tim zapućuju se ka političkim žarištima našeg vremena: ka mediteranskim rutama izbeglica sa Bliskog istoka i zonama građanskog rata u Kongu. Poludokumentarni dupli monolog, zasnovan na intervjuima s radnicima civiinog sektora, sveštenicima i žrtvama rata u Africi i Evropi, namerno zalazi u kontradiktornost: kako podnosimo tuđu patnju i zašto je posmatramo? Zašto je jedna mrtva osoba na vratima Evrope važnija od hiljada mrtvih ljudi u zonama gradanskog rata u Kongu? Saosećanje. Istorija mitraljeza promišlja ne samo granice naše saosećajnosti, nego i granice evropske humanosti.

x CURATORS’ WORD

The renowned German-Swiss author and director Milo Rau is coming to Bitef with a relatively chamber production Compassion. The History of the Machine Gun , produced by the famous Schaubuehne from Berlin. This is an exciting, pseudo-documentary theatre, where, amidst a general decay or waste of the Western civilization, two confession-fiction perspectives of African genocides confront and interlace, embodied by two actresses - one of African, the other of Suisse origin. This performance shifts the focus from the refugee crisis itself to one of its causes - atrocities in African civil wars, the responsibility of which is born by Western societies as weil. Đo we ever, for instance, while being deeply and sincerely moved by the photo of a little refugee’s body, ask ourselves about the responsibility of our own society for the suffering which made that unfortunate child and its family leave their home?

Schaubühne berlin

x ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Milo Rau and his team journey to the political hot spots of our time: the Mediterranean routes of refugees from the Middle East and the Congolese civil war zones. The semi-documentary double-monologue, based on interviews with NGO workers, clerics and war victims in Africa and Europe, deliberately ventures into contradictory terrain: how do we endure the misery of others and why do we watch it? Why does one dead person at the gates of Europe outweigh thousand dead people in the Congolese civil war zones? Compassion. The History of the Machine Gun not only contemplates the limits of our compassion but also on the limits of European humanism.