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THE ARABIAN NIGHT
Die arabische Nacht
Serbian translation: Ljubiša Matić
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Director
Set designer
Costume designer
Scene movement
Sound designer
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Ljubiša Matić
Zorana Petrov
Lana Pavlović
Marija Milenković
Dobrivoje Milijanović |
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| About the play |
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Lomeyer
Francisca
Fatima
Karpati
Khalil
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Ljubomir Bandović
Nataša Marković
Jelena Ilić
Nikola Vujović
Nemanja Oliverić |
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ABOUT THE PLAY
“Even if this is not an explicitly politically engaged piece, I would really like to know what does actually happen in these so called 'blocks' of the suburban periphery in places like Berlin, Marseilles, Rotterdam – or, why not, New Belgrade? During the last decade of the 20th century, these places have become unique 'melting pots' of multiethnic (non)solidarity and subculture. We do, in fact, live in a time when the second or even third generation of Islamic immigrants, our young neighbours, do feel more and more European, thereby finding themselves in a steadily growing cleft between pop-culture and the mullah. On the other hand, they simultaneously impose a deep and irreversible change upon the 'original' Europeans, without them actually being aware of it – yet. The Orient is no longer exotica, but is slowly and surely becoming an equal part of our everyday, whose banality – therefore Schimmelpfennig’s obsessive attention to irrelevant details which leave us unexcited – sometimes manages to be opened…”
Director of the play Ljubiša Matić
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
LJUBIŠA MATIĆ – Graduated theatre and radio directory from the Fakulty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. This is his first production in a proffesional theatre in Serbia.
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About the author
ROLAND SCHIMMELPFENNIG was born in Göttingen on the 19. September 1967. After the graduation, he worked as a correspondent from Istanbul for a long while. His experiences from this period have shown relevant for the playwriting of The Arabian Night. Schimmelpfennig graduated on film and theatre directing on the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule. He got his first engagement in the theatre in the Kammerspiele in Munich as a director's assistant, thereafter becoming a permanent member of the theatre in 1995.
He lived travelling between Munich and Stuttgart until 1998, working as a freelance dramatist and translator from 1996. Short after, he moved to the United States, where he lived by doing various translation works. In 1998 Schimmelpfennig received the prize Hohe Munde as well as the prestigious Schiller-award for his writing works, primarily for the play Fisch um Fisch (Fish for Fish). As he returned from the US,he became the dramatist of the famous Schaubühne theatre in Berlin in the period 1999-2001.
Together with a new team of artists Schimmelpfennig developed the concept of the House on Leniner Platz, where he presented four of his own dramas until 2003. In the same time he also wrote for the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg during the season of 2001/2002.
Roland Schimmelpfennig is by now the most played German dramatist, with over forty international set ups and dramas performed in more than twenty world languages. Since the year of 2000 he works after requests from the City Theatre in Stuttgart and Hanover, the Wiener Bürghtheater, the Schauspielhaus in Zurich and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. With his sixteen dramas written until the age of 38, he is one of the most fertile contemporary drama writers in the world. Some of his most performed plays are: The Arabian Night (2001), Push Up 1-3 (2001) and The Woman from Before (2004).
Roland Schimmelpfennig now lives in Berlin.
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