Now or never!

4 January 2018 | DCS2017

CALL FOR APPLICATION

Desiré Central Station 2018

We are happy to announce that the Kosztolányi Dezső Theatre has begun the preparations for its tenth international regional contemporary theatre festival: Desiré Central Station 2018.

The organizing team of DCS 2018 is looking for performances to put in the program of the festival. We are looking forward to receiving applications until 31 August 2018, to the following address:

info@desirefestival.eu

or

Pozorište „Kosztolányi Dezső” – DCS 2018
Trg žrtava fašizma 5.
24000 Subotica
SERBIA

The application should contain the technical rider of the performance, the approximate costs of transportation and performance, and also a recording of the performance.

Best regards,
Desiré Team

29 November 2017 | DCS2017

Theree Guineas

* Desiré Academy *

Satursay, 2 December 2017, 4 pm – Klein house / social bar & art gallery – FREE ENTRY

Virginia Woolf: THREE GUINEAS

Translation: Dragana Starčević

Plazed by Vanja Halupa, Elena Nastić, Luna Škopelja, Sofija Stojanović

Directed by Bojan Milosavljević

25 November 2017 | DCS2017

Desiré Academy

Discussions, lectures, presentations, performance, workshop, exhibition

12 November 2017 | DCS2017

THE NINTH

Via Negativa (Ljubljana)
THE NINTH – a Beethoven-powered anthropological machine
Concept and direction: Bojan Jablanovec

The Ninth is a gallop through Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. From absolutism to socialism… From defeatism to optimism… From populism to vulgarism… In the context of this “symphony of brotherhood” the performance addresses the border between human and animal. The Ninth is an intercourse of The High and The Low.

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

THE ANATOMY LESSON

Serbian National Theatre (Novi Sad)
THE ANATOMY LESSON
András Urbán’s authorial project based on the motifs of Danilo Kiš’s eponymous work
Directed by András Urbán

“The play was initially based on Danilo Kiš’s pamphlet-like book, The Anatomy Lesson, a showdown with the critical reactions that his novel, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, received from the literary and political circles. However, Urbán has broadened the text’s scope of meaning, turning it into a fragmented, music-accompanied theater play. (…) This performance is an academic lesson: a historical lecture about social and political oppression, censorship and the persecution of artists, and the hell that totalitarianism and obligatory ideological optimism represents.” – Ana Tasić, Politika

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

A CLOUD IN TROUSERS

Kosztolányi Dezső Theatre (Subotica)
A CLOUD IN TROUSERS
Based on Vladimir Mayakovsky’s eponymous poem
Directed by Kokan Mladenović

In 1909 the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky threw THE TEN MESSAGES OF REVOLUTION into his fellow citizens’ face, for which he spent 10 months imprisoned. In 1917 the revolution during its ten days gave ten responses to the ten messages – ten responses that have altered the world. Since then ten times ten years passed by. People, is there anyone today with a message for the revolution? Or is slavery that comfortable? Is it comfortable to listen to these ten messages of revolution? Or there is but A Cloud in your Trousers?

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

D.J.

W.A. Mozart–Lorenzo Da Ponte–Miklós Paizs
D.J.
Opera-drama in two acts
Directed by Miklós Paizs (Balázs Simon)

“…what Miklós Paizs is doing is simply the work of a genius. Through his voice and hands Mozart’s opera has received a wise, funny, courageous revival. His approach to Mozart’s opus is the same as Mozart’s approach to human existence: full of liberating irony, love and humor. Words cannot capture how many registers, feelings and experiences are condensed into Miklós Paizs’s play.(…) Miklós Paizs’s piece is perfect theater, a great and lasting experience.” – Gábor Schein, Litera

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

National Theatre in Belgrade – Bitef Theatre (Belgrade)
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Directed by Jernej Lorenci

The textual basis of the performance is the Serbian medieval epic literature which attracted the director by various concrete motifs. At a higher thematic level, he is particularly interested in the archetypal situation typical of the Serbian and some other cultures: the alternation of only two roles, the hero and the victim, where identification with a balanced existential position is not possible.

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

we, european corpses

Mladinsko Theatre (Ljubljana)
Simona Semenič
we, european corpses
Directed by Sebastijan Horvat

The performance deals with the expediency of what is known as engaged theatre, and with the question of the expediency of such an engagement in a system that not only allows for criticism, but presents it as an essential part of the artistic market. In moments of crisis, when this niche is getting larger and more important, it is ever more clear that instead of creating possibilities for change, it merely enables the extension of the status quo.

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

55 SHADES OF GAY

Qendra Multimedia (Prishtina)
Jeton Neziraj
55 SHADES OF GAY – the Balkan spring of sexual revolution
Directed by Blerta Neziraj

A burlesque story about LGBTI politics in the Balkans and in Europe. Local Balkan politicians are trying to manipulate and deceive EU officials; the humanitarian mercenaries of international NGO’s often exploit the homophobic environment to raise funds, so they could implement their social and educational projects, while EU officials, using their superior financial and political position, are trying to subjugate everyone.

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

Exit

Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre (Timisoara) – Ioan Slavici Classical Theatre (Arad) – National Theatre Sombor
EXIT
Directed by Árpád Schilling

Somewhere in Great Britain economic migrants are locked up inside a building that has been out of use. They have arrived from various Eastern European countries: they want both to get out and to get in somewhere. Those from outside have promised them that everything will be sorted out and that they should not do anything other than wait.

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

This World

Bitef Theatre – Bitef Dance Company (Belgrade)
THIS WORLD
Choreographed by Miloš Isailović

The choreographer of this dance performance is young Miloš Isailović, who has created many memorable dance roles with Bitef Dance Company, and has won “Dimitrije Parlić” award of the UBUS (Association of Ballet Artists of Serbia) for his first choreography, Dunjaluk [This World].

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

[hullu]

Blick Théâtre (Toulouse)
[hullu]
A pretence theatre, no spoken words play, combining humans and puppets
Directed by Dominique Habouzi

Sitting on three stools, in the middle of nowhere, they take care of her. She does not understand them. While she feels overwhelmed by the world outside, she finds comfort in her head, a whimsical otherworldliness inhabited with strange characters. Torn between these two worlds, she sways from one to another not knowing how to make them coexist.

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

Othello – the illegitimate liturgy

Teatro VeRRdi (Zadar)
William Shakespeare
Othello – the illegitimate liturgy
Directed by Zlatko Paković

It has been 401 years since the death of the world’s greatest poet – William Shakespeare. The filthiest injustices done to the ones who did no harm were expressed in his dramatic writings. If everything else disappeared all humanity could be reconstructed just from Shakespeare’s works, with all its humanity and all its evil, with everything that humanity represents despite it’s irrationality and intellectuality.

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

Love and Economy

Montažstroj (Zagreb)
LOVE AND ECONOMY
documentary performance
Direction and concept: Borut Šeparović

Humanitarian event. Documentary performance. Public debate about rights to decide freely on the birth of children. LOVE & ECONOMY is a multimedia journey about destinies of our great-grandmothers, grandmothers and mothers…

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

My Factory

Bosnian National Theatre Zenica
Selvedin Avdić
MY FACTORY
Directed by Selma Spahić

The play is based on Selvedin Avdić’s book, My Factory, an intimate monograph of the town and its ironworks, depicting their relationship that was so special that at one point the citizens of Zenica refered to the Factory as ‘Mother’. However, in the decade that saw its biggest production (and simultaneously pollution) boost, the citizens of Zenica vehemently hated it. This play gives us a historic overview of Zenica through a story of its origins.

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

PENZUM

PLATÔ (Paris)
PENZUM
Performance by Josef Nadj and Joëlle Léandre

Penzum: the amount of work to be completed in one day. This term appears in an untranslated poem by Attila József, the great Hungarian poet who has influenced generations of authors and artists. Associating choreography, music and drawing, the duo of dancer-choreographer Josef Nadj and double bass player Joëlle Léandre allows free improvisation to find its full expression. The performance is an ‘open’ work whose form, each time new, is conceived on the spot through absolute reciprocal listening.

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

LAMPEDUSA BEACH

Hotel Bulić Theatre (Zagreb)
Lina Prosa
LAMPEDUSA BEACH
Directed by Senka Bulić

This intensive monologue on immigration is a poetic and dramatic testimony of Shauba, a young African woman who experienced a shipwreck on the coasts of Lampedusa, one of the most beautiful summer resorts of Europe that has become a traumatic spot of Europe. Shauba tells of her own experiences, namely, her dream of a better life and the injustice of the world, but also of her primordial connection with water and with her Mediterranean identity. The words of the drowned Shauba prompt an underwater odyssey.

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

FREEDOM: THE MOST EXPENSIVE CAPITALIST WORD

BITEF Festival – Bitef Theatre (Belgrade)
FREEDOM: THE MOST EXPENSIVE CAPITALIST WORD
Authors: Maja Pelević & Olga Dimitrijević

The production, inspired by the authors’ research trip to the world’s most isolated country – North Korea, questions the idea of freedom in the era of ever-intensifying global surveillance. The audience will have a chance to get a unique touristic tour through a country considered by the “Western World” to be the biggest bogeyman, whose existence raises the question on freedom and non-freedom in today’s society.

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12 November 2017 | DCS2017

Blic

Urban: Nova predstava Kokana Mladenovića ekskluzivno na “Desire” festivalu