Story of Tea (2006)
variation on the theme of  "Three Sisters" by A.P. Chekhov

Performers: Aleksandra Jelić, Jugoslav Hadžić, Maja Mitić, Sanja Krsmanović-Tasić
Music (composed and played by): Aleksandra Damnjanović, Nebojša Ignjatović, Jugoslav Hadžić
Set-design: Neša Paripović
Costumes: Milena Ristić
Light-design: Radomir Stamenković
Objects crafted by: Nikola Tasić- ARBOS
Organization: Kristina  Mladjenović
Photos: Jovan Čekić
Program design: Koan Studios
Translation: Sanja Krsmanović Tasić
Dramaturgy and direction: Dijana Milošević
Texts: Ruth Magraff, A.P. Chekhov "Three sisters", Kakuzo Okakura "The Book of Tea", three haiku poems by Basho, Dave Duggan "AH 6905", documentary materials collected by Human Rights Fund and Women in Black, fragments from daily news, information from the Internet, Dah Theatre

The new performance of DAH Theatre takes as its point of departure the classic play by A.P. Chekov "Three Sisters".



The play serves as a reference point, the frame which holds different stories and topics together. The central themes of Chekov's play - the train that will eventually take the sisters to their dream destination of Moscow, the missed opportunities and lost chances - inspired and provoked several important issues that DAH Theatre's performance is dealing with. Trains and missed opportunities lead to the missing people, missing languages and missing truths. This performance explores the meaning of memory in relation to truth - especially harsh truth. The question which the performance puts in focus is not about hidden truths but rather about how we treat harsh truth. What happens when for example the truth about the abduction of people in a train, during the wars in our region, is known and recognized, even on the level of the state, but until today the victims have not been officially mourned and their families have never heard one word of condolence? What are the implications of the mass of information that we get today through the media, information that is not properly or humanely treated. What is the role of memory? What are the forms of amnesia in our time and how do we create the ritual of anamnesis?
"The forgetting that the anamnesis seeks to undo is the forgetting that takes place whenever violence is justified".

Premiere:
January 27th , at 8pm, Dah Theatre Research Center ,Marulićeva  8
January 28th , at 8pm, Dah Theatre Research Center , Marulićeva  8
February 03rd , at 8pm, Dah Theatre Research Center, Marulićeva  8

 "Theatre as the Ritual of Remembrance - establishing memory as a way of recuperating and re-establishing truth."
Additional themes are in connection with our relation to remembrance - why are we more responsible towards certain facts concerning memory; how to remember or not forget harsh truths; how to create the space where we can allow memory to be alive; is theatre, film, or art that space?

NUMBER OF PLACES IS LIMITED, SO PLEASE CONFIRM THE DATE OF YOUR PRESENCE ( e-mail  or  phone )
DAH Teatar would like to thank: Human Rights Fund, Women in Black, Bobanu Stojanoviću, Rachael Lindsay, patisserie "Mali princ", bookstore and teahouse "Apropo"
DAH Teatar would specially like to thank to Ruth Magraff i Nicos Brisco.
Performance supported by: The Belgrade City Council - Secretary of Culture, The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, Pro Helvetia
Activities of Dah Theatre Research Center for 2005/2006 are supported byThe Rockefeller Brothers Fund.