KotorArt
International festival
Saturday, July 18
Old Power Plant, Tabačina, 9 p.m.
DEATH IN DUBROVNIK
Death in Dubrovnik, theater play
Based on personal testimonies and archival materials
Director: PETAR PEJAKOVIĆ
Dramaturge: Anja Pletikosa
Composer: Ilija Gajević
Costume Designer: Lina Leković
Set Designer: Ivanka Vana Prelević
Movement Director: Anđelija Rondović
Producer: Marija Backović
Performers:
Slaviša Grubiša, Emir Ćatović, Pavle Prelević, Miloš Kašćelan, Kristijan Blečić, Maša Božović
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes (including a 15-minute intermission)
Program partners
Dramski studio “Prazan prostor”, Akcija za ljudska prava
Death in Dubrovnik was produced by the Prazan Prostor Drama Studio in collaboration with Human Rights Action Montenegro. The production was created as part of the project The Siege of Dubrovnik 1991–1992: Memories of the War So That Evil Does Not Happen Again, supported by the European Union through the regional initiative EU Support to Confidence Building in the Western Balkans and implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The performance promotes a culture of remembrance in opposition to the widespread culture of forgetting. The script is based on more than thirty testimonies collected by Human Rights Action and Prazan Prostor. Its aim is to encourage audiences, particularly in Montenegro, to confront the truth about the conflicts fought in Dubrovnik and its surrounding area during the Yugoslav Civil War. Failure to reckon with the realities of the past creates the conditions for history to repeat itself. Death in Dubrovnik is an artistic intervention against the prevailing culture of amnesia and denial.
Petar Pejaković, director, was educated in Rijeka and studied in Belgrade. He studied Mathematics and Philosophy before graduating in Theater Directing. As a child, he staged plays in his family’s kitchen for his grandmother and her sisters. Today, he creates theater plays for young audiences, including Pupin, Robinson Crusoe, Little Tesla, Da Da Shakespeare, How Great People Grow, Gulliver, and The Pink Panther. He has directed more than fifty productions. Among them, the most significant are those that employ theater as a tool for social change, including Death in Dubrovnik, Kotor About Kotor, Through Good Times and Bad, and Der Tod des Pero Radaković. He is particularly committed to theater work with marginalized and vulnerable communities. For thirty years, Petar Pejaković has been continuously engaged in drama education with children, young people, and older adults. He has founded several drama studios and theater organizations, most notably KUD Nikud and Prazan Prostor. He is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje.


