Croatian House of Culture - Friday, May, 6th 6:00 p.m.
Zagrebačko kazalište mladih, Hrvatska
Dežulović/Ferčec/Šeparović: GENERATION 91.-95.
Director: Borut Šeparović,
Dramaturgue and director ass.: Goran Ferčec;
Set design: Borut Šeparović;
Costume designer: Doris Kristić i Borut Šeparović;
Music: Hans Zimmer, Samuel Barber, Philip Glass, Henryk Górecki
Cast: Aldin Kasumović, Andrej Kopčok, Andrej Vesel, Bernard Tomić, Dario Stajčić, Filip Jurković, Ivan Fedor, Ivan Pašalić, Luka Šulje, Matija čigir, Matija Šakoronja, Nikola Nedić, Svebor Kamenski Bačun
Opening night: 24.11.2009.
Duration: 110 min
The play Generation 91- 95 was based on the motives from the novel "Jebo sad hiljadu dinara" ("Fuck now thousand dinars") by the well-known journalist and writer from Split, Boris Dežulović. The actors in the play are members of the drama studio of the Academy of the theater "Zagrebačko kazalište mladih", and the director is Borut Šeparović.
The story evolves around an absurd situation created when two groups of disguised soldiers on a secret assignment, members of the Croatian army and the Army of the Bosnia and Herzegovina, meet, in the summer of 1993, somewhere in a remote place in Bosnia. A tragedy of error is inevitable. While Dežulović's story is imagined, the historical context of the story is real. Two groups of soldiers, six members of the Croatian army and six of the Army of the Bosnia and Herzegovina, go on patrol on no-man's land. Not only is their encounter inevitable, but both sides are disguised in uniforms of the enemy's army.
Twelve young men (chosen at the audition organized in December 2008), aged fourteen to eighteen, impersonate the biographies of twelve fictional characters from Dežulović's story, and present the war chronology of the nineties and earlier. Between the fiction of the novel on one side and the fiction of the theater on the other, the only real element are the boys and young men born during the Homeland War, the generation whose experience of the Homeland War is possible only through someone else ( family, school, media...) telling them about the war. The performance Generation 91 – 95 is an homage to Montažstroj, a performance, dance and drama group founded at the end of 1989, whose work started twenty years ago at the theater "Zagrebačko kazalište mladih"
From the programme of the performance
"The most important theme of the play opened by the performers, even on the unconscious level, is the identity, and not the truth about the war. The fact which helps them is that they are not professional actors and that they are at the age when they are openly ashamed of themselves, but also when they can say to themselves a lot of things that they will afterwards, accidentally or intentionally, forget."
Igor Ružić, Kazalište 41/42 2010