Play by Olga Dimitrijević | German premiere
Translated from the Serbian by Blažena Radas
Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater Annaberg-Buchholz as part of Erzgebirgische Theater und Orchester GmbH
Their world is slowly disappearing. The broken pavements, the old factories where they used to work, the shops on the ground floor. Nothing left but memories. "We are living archives of socialism and everyone is waiting for us to finally die so that the memories die with us." Dragica comes from the funeral of the love of her life - Ivana. "Forty and a few" years the two women lived this love in secret, two women in Yugoslavia and later in what was left of it. But Ivana had a son, and he wanted Dragica to move out of the flat Ivana had left her. Dragica fights in vain against a "liberal housing market". But when she wants to give up, Ivana's ghost appears, the ghost of a partisan. No market is a match for this spirit.
Born in Yugoslavia in the early 1980s, theatre author Olga Dimitrijević experienced its bloody decline and transformation into an ethno-national system. She dedicates her play about four elderly women to those partisans who contributed to their generation being able to develop artistically and politically today.
