FREEDOM: THE MOST EXPENSIVE CAPITALIST WORD

BITEF festival, Bitef teatar SLOBODA JE NAJSKUPLJA KAPITALISTIČKA REČ/ FREEDOM: THE MOST EXPENSIVE CAPITALIST WORD koncept, tekst i izvođenje/ concept, text and performing: Maja Pelević i Olga Dimitrijević Koreografija/ Choreography: Igor Koruga Muzika/ Music : Anja Đorđević Kostim/ Costumes : Ljiljana Dragović Video montaža/ Video editing: Deana Petrović Dramaturškinja volonterka/ Dramaturge volunteer : Jasna Jasna Žmak Izvršna produkcija/ Executive Producers : Dragana Jovović, Jovana Janjić Organizacija/ Production assistant: Olivera Kecojević Snimatelji predstave/ Cameras on set: Jovan Marjanović i Deana Petrović The production, inspired by the authors’ research trip to the world’s most isolated country – North Korea, questions the idea of freedom in the era of ever-intensifying global surveillance. The audience will have a chance to get a unique touristic tour through a country considered by the “democratic world” to be the biggest bogeyman, whose existence raises the question on freedom and non-freedom in today’s society. The show brings up many other issues as well: how extensive are the limits of our thought, conditioned by constant propaganda and the context which we come from? How relative is the notion of freedom and how determined by the socio-cultural context? Is the visible personality cult worse than the invisible cult of capital? What does the last Cold War remnant, North Korea, tell us about our, “free” Western world? Is having an atomic bomb and a nationwide defence concept the only way to avoid imperial dominance? Is a socialist political structure always totalitarian? The show faces the possibilities and impossibilities to talk about a country outside our cultural and political code.