Igor ?tiks: THE FLOUR IN OUR VEINS

One Leg in the Past, the Other in the Present

This play is based on the first drama by Igor ?tiks, otherwise a prominent and award-winning novelist.
It takes place during a family dinner which, after twenty years of absence, finally gathers family members scattered all over the world. Father and mother, hosts, older son with his wife and under-aged son, that return from the US after twenty years, and younger son, a war reporter. The empty seat is reserved for the third son who died on the battlefield ... ...The question "Who are you?" could be said is a principal motive throughout the play which at the same time suggests that nobody recognizes anyone. The character of David, the youngest one, represents something like a counterbalance to everything that the family stands for. He is an objective, rational observer and occasional commentator of complex and unresolved relations in this family. (...) Fatima Bilčević, Oslobođenje