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WE CAN GO ON LIKE THIS TILL KINGDOM COME
(After the text by Borislav Pekić)
DIS - Theatre, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Text adaptation and dramatisation: Branislav Ilić
Directed by Novica Bogdanović
Stage movement associate: Matilda Tudori
Set design associate: Nikola Pejaković
Music associate: Bogdan Crnobrnja

Cast:
Senior – Aleksandra Kecman
Junior – Branka Trbić

Duration: 60 minutes


WE CAN GO ON LIKE THIS TILL KINGDOM COME

Optimistic farce...
Despite the environment surrounding the heroes and despite the situation, which pains and warns, the play ‘We Can Go on like This till Kingdom Come’ speckled with play and fascinates with the joy of living. The infantile theatrical play of two young actresses brings characters framed into two typical patterns: one who stalks, and the other who is stalked.
By simple acting interpretation the two worlds are minutely embossed, DIS-coursearticualted, the mime of the face disciplined at all times. Their faces need no disguise: they become masks with layers of lavish buffoonery and harlequinade, like a stage of all their previous roles, composing these comic-tragic-absurd characters like layers of make-up.
‘Junior’ does it optimistically, openly, playfully, while ‘Senior’ – vulnerably, timidly, and spiritlessly. In a word, more than agreeable as a tandem.
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DIS THEATRE

The Dis Theatre was established in 1991 with the aim of affirmation of theatrical culture with the young generation. With its original and imaginative repertoire and work it has grown into one of the most popular ensembles in B&H. As an independent theatre it has carried out 83 projects with over 1,250 repeat performances.
The Dis Theatre has taken part in important theatre festivals and events. This repertoire theatre operates in its own theatre hall with a capacity of 200 seats, while the ensemble consists of young artists and students of both art and other study programmes.

Branislav Ilić (Mostar, 1972), graduated from the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (ADRFT) in Ljubljana, and is permanently employed and regularly engaged in Canada.

Novica Bogdanović (Banja Luka, 1970) graduated in Acting in Niš, in class of Prof. Mima Vuković Kurić, and in Applied Theatrology in Prague, in class of Prof. Pavel Kohout, where he specialised in drama therapy.
He has directed 37 plays in theatres in Banja Luka, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Gradiška, Kostajnica, Novi Grad, Brescia, Milan (Italy), Prague (Czech Republic).
He has authored: the films ‘I Have a Brother on Saturdays’ (2003) and ‘Justice’ (2006), the dramatic texts‘Let Their Home Be in Heavens’, ‘Conspiracy’, ‘Adulterers’, ‘The Neighbourhood Story’.
He has been awarded at the theatre festivals in Karlovy Vary, Târgu mureș Berlin, Belgrade, Bitola...
Since 2002 he has been permanently employed at Banja Luka’s Dis Youth Theatre, as Artistic Director, dedicating himself entirely to working with young actors. He lives in Banja Luka.

Matilda Tudori studied modern dance in Paris, in class of Jerome Andrews, and specialised in butoh dance (Japan) and contact improvisation dance. Since 1980 she has been active as a dance pedagogue.
The Art Director of the Murata Theatre in Venice since 2002, Matilda has directed and signed choreographies for a number of performances of the dance theatre. Those created in collaboration with Yutake Takei and Paki Zenarhave been staged at the Venice Biennial. She lives in Venice.