4.48 Psychosis
Serbia
Directing
Nemanja Mijović
Text
Sarah Kane
The “most beautiful poem of the twentieth century”! And a tough play that explores the question of how we can hope, love, live and survive.
Language
Serbian with German & English surtitles
Duration
75 min
Location
Kleines Haus
Kleines Haus Staatsschauspiel Dresden
Glacisstr. 28
01099 Dresden
KH 2
Dates
On the whole [my plays] are about love.
And about survival and about hope.___Sarah Kane
“It’s the most beautiful poem of the 20th century”, says Serbian director Nemanja Mijović of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 PSYCHOSIS. It’s the last play by the British playwright, written in 1999, just before she took her own life at 28 years old. Kane’s plays are challenging. They’re hard-hitting, because they don’t have any illusions. They talk about love dangerously, painfully and with overwhelming beauty. They don’t shy away from facing the fact that people are violent towards each other. Her first play BLASTED was written around the time of the war in Yugoslavia. Her last one deals with depression and gradually developing suicidal thoughts, and at the same time expresses the boundless desire to live in this world and be able to love. But what if the “system of therapy” doesn’t work? If the medication doesn’t help and only numbs your thoughts and feelings? If anger gives you reasons to feel this way? If someone lies instead of loving? If the self doesn’t find itself, because there’s no one else there?
Nemanja Mijović, b. 2000, directed Kane’s 4.48 PSYCHOSIS in the third year of his studies at the theatre department of the University of the Arts in Belgrade. He arranges the audience around a central performance area, with the performance taking place both inside and outside it. The performance was created together with students from the theatre academies in Belgrade and Novi Sad and is also their first collaboration as the art collective NIBIRU. In June 2024, Mijović completed his degree in Directing with a production of Marius von Mayenburg’s play PARASIT.
With Nina Perge, Marta Šćekić, Ognjen Mićović
Directing Nemanja Mijović
Dramaturgy Aleksa Parović Scenography Ema Pavlović, Angela Božović Costume Mia Đurović Sound Design Kosta Petrović Lighting Design Radovan Samolov Production Ana Matić, Sofija Gavrilović Choreography & Movement Training Aleksandra Arizanović Photos Ružica Ristivojević, Nata Korsky (Portrait Nemanja Mijović)