THE HELEN KELLER CASE

Acting: Vladan Avramovic Sanja Krsmanovic-Tasic Maja Mitic Alister O'loughlin Tina Milivojevic / Kathy Randels Direction and Dramaturgy: Dijana Milosevic Set Design: Nesa Paripovic Music: Tina Milivojevic Lighting Design: Radomir Stamenkovic Objects: Nikola Tasic - ARBOS Texts: William Blake, Madeline Gins, Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan, P.B. Shelley, Emanuel Swedenborg. Poems: H.L. Borges, Lau Tzu, J. Rumi, W.B. Yeats

Through moments of the biography of Helen Keller, the famous American deaf and blind writer and fighter for human rights, a story is told about the need for communication; the need for the touch of the OTHER. From different moments of time real and imaginary characters meet, and with a gaze of hope directed towards the oncoming century, they dance with the darkness to the song/cry of the Black Lady, the one who gives and takes away.

"There are certain periods in history which lift humans to a vantage point from which we can see. When precious light falls on the world which was in darkness…I believe that we are now living at the threshold of such a renaissance. Each renaissance comes to the world with a cry, a cry of the human soul for freedom".

"There is no one and nothing from the outside, everything happens from the inside and in the inner - side, and that by itself is a fantastic metaphor for "The Case of Helen Keller".
Besides this, you cannot but take the impression that inside the very group something beautiful has happened…that can be compared to a fertalised and ennobled female energy that seems to have got in this very moment it's volume, strength, naturalness and maturity."
Beorama
(June 1998)

"Dah Teatar, in it's Slavic tenderness, through a broken dramaturgy of words, images and movement, in it's specific stylised way, tells us a multi level story. First of all about the relationship of two beings, two women, their mingled wombed lives, and also a mythological epic about strength, persistence and the determination of one, and like a Christian fairytale about the unselfish giving, sacrifice and incredible love of the other."
Politika
(9th May 1998)

"In this game we grasp that Helen Keller stops being an individual "case" but becomes instead a metaphor for the destiny of man facing the process of spiritual fulfillment, because a man in the process of spiritual maturation is no different from a deaf-blind girl. In this way the members of Dah Teatar invite us to reconsider the universal human need for communication which itself opens spaces for spiritual development, to dive into our own areas of darkness and silence, and to scrutinise our own visions of the world."
Rec
(May 1998)