The action "Collection of (probably) unread plays" is on the wave of self-organization as a sign of resistance to the government, which began with ne:bitef.
Serbian culture began to self-organize as a sign of resistance to the authorities. It started last fall no:bitefom, this year the actors continued in that direction by organizing their own Niš Film Festival and Vida Ognjenović who did not give up New Fortress Theatre although the festival was expelled from Čortanovaci, and recently the "Louder from Censorship" initiative, which consists of local bands and artists, and Exit, announced that they will organize a Blacklist Festival in the fall, in which musicians, actors and other public figures from the blacklist of the current regime will participate.
On that wave is the campaign, fanzine, "Collection of (probably) unread plays" organized by UK Parobrod, with the intention of making available the works of contemporary playwrights who have ended up in a drawer.
Not to the director's taste.
Faced with closed institutions and strictly controlled selection in theaters, authors take the initiative outside the institutional framework.
The action begins on Saturday, August 29 at Ada Ciganlija, near the restaurant "At the End of the World" with a reading of Mina Milošević's play "Robinson Crusoe If He Was a Bisexual with Six Fridays".
Mina Milošević won first prize for this dramatic text at the Steria Theater in 2025/26.
Her earlier dramatic text "Lysistrata: Sex and Strike" is recent removed from the Bitef Theater repertoire. New acting director Filip Gajić believed that the text was feminist and that "feminism is fascism".
In the drama "Robinson Crusoe Had He Been Bisexual with Six Fridays", Mina Milošević talks about the "ideal victim", a term which, as she explains, "is used to describe patriarchal expectations of victims of violence, especially sexual violence, who are not believed unless they behave like classic victims - unless they commit suicide, if they don't wrap themselves in black and if they decide to show the joy of living or their own sexual freedom."
Penelope is not passive.
In the drama, this theme is shown by the motif of Penelope, who is a paradigm of female passivity.
In the explanation of the jury of Sterija's theater, it is written that "the calculation of the text with that paradigm is done in a non-linear, self-ironic, metatextual way full of humor. In addition to passivity, comic subversion also targets issues of sexuality, growing up in patriarchy, female friendships, pop culture and capitalism, and in the process of carnivalization, these themes alternate and intertwine, creating an extremely exciting drama that, in terms of its content and form, speaks very well to modernity".
The Return of Danielle Steinfeld
The main role in the drama is played by Daniela Steinfeld, an actress who is very much and privately attached to the character she portrays. In 2021, she accused her colleague Branislav Lečić of rape, which is why some media accused her of defamation and part of the cultural community did not support her.
Mina Milošević explains that with this role, Daniela Steinfeld destroys the established myth of the "ideal victim" by "approaching the figure of Penelope in a subversive way - she does not passively wait for justice that does not arrive, but finds a way to move on with life, not accepting the role of a victim."
The organizer of the action "Collection of (probably) unread plays" emphasizes that the reading of this text comes at a time when the doors of official institutions are mostly closed for such topics and formats.
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