Interview: Selma Spahić, theater director

The right to a different world

November 11, 2026, 19:07 p.m Nataša Gvozdenović

I hope that the new generations, with a very clear attitude towards the past, not agreeing to revisionism and indoctrination and respecting the decisions of international courts, will break away from nationalist ideologies and start building a different society

Freedom is not won once and for all. It is a constant struggle against the system that keeps man in submission through fear for existence, but also the ability to imagine a world different from the existing one. In the play Life is a Dream, which she directed at the Novi Sad Theater, the internationally recognized Bosnian director Selma Spahić reads Calderon's play as a story about contemporary forms [...]

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