FEAR AND HOPE IN GERMANY

FEAR AND HOPE IN WEST GERMANY is a play consisting of nineteen smaller dramas with one to three characters. These dramas are performed simultaneously in nine apartments of a building that symbolizes the Federal Republic of Germany from the year 1982. However, the setting resembles today's European countries or their television reality shows.

During 75 minutes, we observe the lives of pensioners, terrorists, writers, bank directors, police officers, the unemployed, supermarket cashiers, actresses, Hungarian emigrants, photographers, models, Turkish refugees. They all lead their European lives on stage according to the Aristotelian idea of unity of place, time, and action. The play is staged in the style of Ristić's simultaneous play from 1974, where everyone seems to be just waiting to leap from the windows.

Director: Ljubiša Ristić
Assistant Directors: Dijana Bešlin, Uroš Novović
Scenography: Bojana Đurović
Costume Design: Zdravka Kulier
Light Design: Petar Kuzmanović
Music Associates: Bojana Račić Simeon, Nevena Branković, Srđan Branković

Roles of the Tenants:

• In the park: Milan Pelivanović, Dušan Dimitrijević
• On the ground floor left: Tanja Tasić, Stanko Bogojević
• On the ground floor right: Anisja Gavrilović, Vjera Mujović
• On the first floor left: Zoltan Pletl, Lili
• On the first floor middle: Nikola Marković, Aleksandra Malivuk
• On the first floor right: Aleksandra Rukavina, Dušan Dimitrijević
• On the second floor left: Đorđe Galić, Uroš Novović, Uroš Stefanović, Nemanja Cerovac
• On the second floor middle: Tašana Đorđević, Andrija Kovač, Ana Kostovska, Tamara Milojković, Nevena Popović
• On the second floor right: Ognjen Petković

Duration of the play: 80 minutes