After the motives of the „The Letter from 1920“, by Ivo Andrić
“THE LETTER FROM 1920”

Director, Stage and Costume Designer, Music Selector: OLIVER FRLJIĆ
Producers: HAZIM BEGAGIĆ, DINO MUSTAFIĆ
Executive Producers: OLIVER JOVIĆ, ADNAN REŠIĆ
Stage Manager: BORKA JOKANOVIĆ

Cast:
SAŠA HANDŽIĆ
ADIS MEHANOVIĆ
ENES SALKOVIĆ
SLAVEN VIDAK

Coming back to Bosnia, after I left it in April 1992, was like coming
back to the parallel reality. Simply, for all these years that I was away, I could not get used to all the abnormalities that had become a norm to the citizens of Bosnia. The new encounter with Bosnia has destroyed all the ideas about the authentic Bosnia, which I preserved hidden somewhere for many years, in spite of all horrible news that came from it. Actually, the encounter with the real Bosnia was so brutal and it was killing everything that I wanted Bosnia to be, that I decided to follow the traces of the other, fictional Bosnia.

After a brief search, I read again “The Letter from 1920” by the Andrić, and his literary Bosnia seemed to me even more horrible than the real one. He described the present day Bosnia with too much precision. That was the most terrible thing in it. The scenic Bosnia, which I have created working on this project, tries to rival the other two Bosnias / the one of Andrić and the real one. I do not know what it should rival them in, either the horror, or as an alternative to the horror of the other two Bosnias. But these are the questions that can be answered only by the performance.

Oliver Frljić