The Conspirators at the Museum of the Nineties

Monday, April 6 4. at 7 PM

The ticket/donation price is 800 RSD. By purchasing a ticket, you support the work of the Museum of the Nineties.

A staged reading of the play The Conspirators by Igor Štiks and Vladimir Arsenijević, based on the KROKODIL series Common Reading Room.

Directed by: Boris Liješević
Performed by: Svetozar Cvetković, Isidora Minić, Dejan Dedić, Marko Grabež

What happens when, breaking all laws of space and time, Bogdan, Borka, Mirko, Sem, Predrag, Svetlana, Saša, Miroslav, Daša, and Danilo meet? And what is their connection to the writers whose surnames are Bogdanović, Pavićević, Kovač, Mehmedinović, Matvejević, Slapšak, Hemon, Krleža, Drndić, and Kiš? What kind of conspiracy are they part of? What kind of action are they calling us to?

Based on texts published in the Common Reading Room series, this exciting blend of voices—a linguistic and artistic polyphony—convincingly shows that, although we now find ourselves divided into different countries, and many of us scattered across the world, we are not strangers to one another. Because in literature, there are no passports. The bonds that connect us, rooted in a shared language and a rich literary heritage, are far stronger than the destructive forces that have produced more harm in recent decades than we could have ever imagined.
The Conspirators speaks about that harm, but also about a conspiracy for a different, better future. Literature plays a key role in it, as imagination is more important today than ever before. Readers and audiences—those who speak, use, create, and breathe a shared language—are invited on a journey, or rather an adventure, of reading, discovery, understanding, and thought. Wherever they may be, that language belongs to them.
This is a statement of resilient optimism and a firm belief that the bonds on which the literary republic of the European South rests will endure.

Despite everything. Against all odds.

The Common Reading Room project by the KROKODIL Association is supported by CCFD – Terre Solidaire; co-produced by My Balkans.