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Sterijino Pozorje Festival |
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Novi Sad |
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May 26th - June 5th 2008 |
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SUNDAY - MAY 25th 2008 |
Small Stage, Serbian National Theatre
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Nigel Williams-Haris Pašović
CLASS ENEMY
East West Center Sarajevo
(Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
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Director HARIS PAŠOVIĆ
Choreographer TAMARA CURIĆ
Set designers LADA MAGLAJLIĆ, AMIR VUK ZEC, OMAR ŠELO
Costumes KAO PAO SHU
Design BOJAN HADžIHALILOVIĆ, GORAN LIZDEK
Video FABRIKA, GORAN LONČAREVIĆ
Physical training DžENAN SADIKOVIĆ
Music ERIC BAJRAMOVIĆ
Lyrics "AS Dreamers"
Music associate BRANO JAKUBOVIĆ
Female voice SANELA REDžEPAGIĆ
Saz EDVIN HADžIĆ |
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AMAR SELIMOVIĆ |
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Cobra |
MAJA ZEĆO |
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Sky |
MAJA IZETBEGOVIĆ |
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Chick |
IRMA ALIMANOVIĆ |
Kid |
NUSMIR MUHAREMOVIĆ |
Ma (AS Dreamers) |
SAMIR KARIĆ |
Ca (AS Dreamers) |
AMIR MUMINOVIĆ |
Deputy headmistress |
LIDIJA STEVANOVIĆ |
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| EAST WEST CENTRE - SARAJEVO |
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| East West Theater Company was established in 2005 in Sarajevo under the artistic directorship of Haris Pašović. The first company's production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, situated in the Ottoman times was the biggest co-production in the region in the last twenty years, involving the artists from eight countries. It became an instant success, touring the festivals and venues in Ljubljana, St. Petersburg, Zagreb, Belgrade and many other cities. The following year, Faust was a new provoking production, again involving international artists. This futuristic Faust is set in 2032 and deals with artificial intelligence, genetics and nanotechnology. Class Enemy, based on Nigel Williams' play and placed in today's Bosnia and Herzegovina is selected for the program of the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival, 2008 Singapore Arts Festival and 2008 Sibiu International Theatre Festival. The company’s repertoire includes also Michael Frayn's Copenhagen directed by Nermin Hamzagić and Ravel's Bolero choreographed by Tamara Curić. |
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| The original play, placed in the South London classroom in early 1980s, is transported to Sarajevo around 2007. The original cast of six high-school boys is transformed into seven characters – three girls and four boys. The free adaptation, while keeping the original spirit and main themes, is grounded in the new European reality at the beginning of the 21st century. (...)
It is a rare play that deals with problems of (sub)urban youth in such a poignant way. It echoes William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and makes us think of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, but it is so recognizable from our neighbourhoods as well.
The artistic team of the Class Enemy has conducted a research in the secondary schools of Sarajevo and has come to shocking findings. The level of violence in school and general disillusionment among students and teachers are alarming. Students often come to school armed with knives, the police get involved, and rude behaviour during classes is a standard. The social picture is that of misery, the atmosphere of desperation and hopelessness is prevalent. For just a few months, we have recorded a number of cases of brutal violence in Sarajevo and small Bosnian towns. The case of a Bosnian teenager who recently opened fire in the shopping mall in Salt Lake City could easily fall in this category as well – since it is definitely related to the war trauma.
We are aware that this situation is not unique for Sarajevo. On daily basis, we read reports from other countries in the region as well as from the EU countries and the USA. We believe that similar cases on other continents are underreported. |
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HARIS PAŠOVIĆ
Haris Pašović (44) has been one of the leading theatre directors in the region for more than two decades. He directed and participated in a number of the festival across the region. His productions of Wedekind's Spring's Awakening, Calling the Birds after Aristophanes, Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Jarry's Ubu Roa have been considered as the landmarks in the theatre of the former Yugoslavia.
During the siege of Sarajevo (1992-95) Pašović spent most of the time in Sarajevo directing the International Theatre Festival MES. After the war Pašović directed several documentaries (Greta, Home, Love Thy Neighbor, Balkans - Blood and Honey, A Propos de Sarajevo). In 2002 he returned to the theatre directing Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. He also wrote a play Rebellion at the National Theatre inspired by McCoy's novel They Shoot the Horses, Don't They? and directed it at the National Theatre Sarajevo. Most recently directed Faust and East West Center.
Pašović has received many awards. He is co-founder and teaches at the Directing Department at the Performing Arts Academy in Sarajevo. |
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Class Enemy is based on Nigel Williams’s play set in South London in 1978 but Haris Pašovic´ transports us to Sarajevo in 2007, a post war city where social disorder and teenage violence are rife. We witness seven teenagers’ dramatic and poignant life stories which paint a bleak picture of their family life, local politics and terror. They are underprivileged but they are gifted and eager to be recognised, acknowledged, confronted and taught about life. In the isolated classroom chairs fly, emotions run high and violence erupts as the pupils burst with adolescent energy, humour and vulnerability.
(the brochure of the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival)
“Disturbing until the very end…”
(Dnevni avaz, Sarajevo)
"Passionate, shocking, awakening!"
(Oslobođenje, Sarajevo)
Lord of the Flies meets Animal Farm in this production filled with pitch-perfect tension brilliantly captured by a young cast whose own childhood school days were abruptly disrupted by war. Based on research amongst disillusioned youths coping with dysfunctional families in post-war Bosnia, Pašović’s Class Enemy paints an unnerving dystopia, sounding a clarion call for change in a world where violence in schools and campuses increasingly vie for news headlines.
(the brochure of the 2008 Singapore Arts Festival) |
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