“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing a better country, sets sail! Progress is the realization of Utopias.”
Oscar Wilde
- directing and dramaturgy Nenad Colic
- with Ilija Ludvig, Ranko Trifkovic, Dejan Stojkovic, Nenad Colic
- music arrangement Ilija Ludvig
- scene and costume Ivana Colic
- photography Olivera Batajic
- director assistant Dubravka Vujinovic
- associates Svetlana Simic, Vera Jovanovic, Andjelka Vujinovic
- text O. Wilde “DeProfundis”, “Human Soul Under Socialism”, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, J. Beck “The Question 1963” and personal actors’ texts
- music The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, L. Cohen and actors’ personal music works
- literature G. Bataille “Eroticism”; E. Cioran “Evil demiurg”; A. Gide “Oscar Wilde”
- premiere BITEF Theatre 31 March 2000;
- festivals INFANT ’00 – Novi Sad; Altfest ’00 – Bistrita, Romania; Varna Summer `01 – Varna, Bulgaria; Theatre in a Suicase `01 – Sofia & Bourgas, Bulgaria; Fair of Chamber Theatres `01 – Krakow, Poland; Presentation of Serbian Independent Theatres Grotowsky Centre `02 – Wroclaw, Poland; Auawirleben `02 – Bern, Switzerland
- supported by Fund for an Open Society & REX
- production Blue Theatre & BITEF Theatre
Is beauty the very essence of life?
Is beauty the virus that man cannot isolate?
Is man able to resist beauty?
Is it possible for beauty to be a quality and an ideal?
Is birth beautiful?
Is death beautiful?
Is there good in this world?
Is beauty an unavoidable cause of loneliness and sufferance?
Is this world made of sadness?
Is there any need for joy in this world?
Is sufferance the final form of perfection?
Is it possible for man to live without sufferance?
Is it Utopia?
Is it Utopia to live sufferance?
Is it possible to live Utopia?
Is it possible to last through Utopia?
Is utopist vision of socialism, individualism and better living a faith in human progress or imagination caused by non readiness to except reality?
Is the difference between utopist vision and utopian endurance clear?
Is human existence the biggest of all utopias?
Is human soul related to all these questions?
Is it…?
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing a better country, sets sail! Progress is the realization of Utopias.”
Oscar Wilde
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