Ana Lasić

For Now Nowhere

Director and Set Designer      Dina Radoman

Premiere: 10 November at 8.30 PM, Yugoslav Drama Theatre Studio Stage.
Duration: around 1 hour

The production is artistic doctorate of Dina Radoman, student of Interdisciplinary Studies of Stage Design at University of Arts in Belgrade.

Lighting Designer

The stripping scene choreographed by

ABOUT THE PLAY

Fantasies, nightmares, reality and fear… Fear… of giving in, of love, of happiness, fear of facing oneself and one’s own darkness. Escape. These are the subjects we address and with the help of which we build our show. We open our inner worlds to it, we lend it the parts of ourselves, our fantasies and fears. It is like a puzzle that is never to be fully assembled. In every single piece of this puzzle, we search for ourselves, we recognise ourselves…
There are no right or wrong ways for these pieces to fit together; I would like everyone to turn them into their own image in which they would find a part of themselves, of their inner worlds.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ana Lasić was born in Belgrade in 1972. She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts, Department of Dramaturgy and Screenplay Writing in 1999.
For the play Where are you coming from?, she won the Selenić prize. The play won Third prize At the Competition for best EX-YU play 2000, organized by Theater m.b.H. in Vienna and it was also read at the »Theatertreffen« in Berlin and »Schiller Tage« in Mannheim. Where are you coming from? is printed in German and Serbian in the collection of plays »Schutzzone und andere neue Stucke aus Exjugoslavien« pub Folio Verlag 2002.
In Belgrade, Ana Lasić was working as a Dramaturg and Film Critic for Radio, Television and Magazines. In 2000 she moved to Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she works as a Screenwriter and Playwright. She is teaching and mentoring scriptwriting as well. In November 2004, her first feature film, The ruins, was released. She wrote the script together with director Janez Burger. The film won the prize for the »Best Slovenian Film«, at the 2004 Slovenian Film Festival, and was shown at festivals in Europe and the US, such as Rotterdam Film Festival, Karlovy Vary, Minneapolis, Palm Springs etc.
Her more recent plays were produced in Slovenia (adaptation of Andrej E. Skubic's Fužine Blues,Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana, 2005; Za sada nigde, For Now Nowhere,Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana, 2005) and abroad (Romanovela: Love in Translation [Exact Original Title – using English!], and international European project (Culture 2000), produced in Graz, 2005; Where are you coming from? was first performed in Theater FORUM in Berlin, in March 2008).

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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Dina Radoman graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Her photographs were exhibited at the International Exhibition of Women Photographers, The World and Myself, in 2006, where she also received the third prize at the group exhibition ‘mORAL’ 2000. She worked as assistant director with Dejan Mijač (Banat,YDP), Egon Savin (Tartuffe, YDP), Dušan Jovanović (The Role of my Family in World Revolution, Atelje 212) and Tomi Janezic (Travelling Theatre Sopalovic, Atelje 212). Her involvement with creative workshops started when she attended ‘Skoligrica’. She then took part in ‘Škozorište’, movement workshop with elements of chi-gong lead by Haike Gaessler, lighting design workshop lead by Michael Ramscar of Stanford, Video and Communication workshop ‘Blur Street’ lead by Kathleen Irwin of University of Regina and the workshop lead by Jean Guy Lecat at the Quadrienalle of set design and theatre architecture in Prague.

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