Director: Paolo Magelli
Dramatization: Željka Udovičić Pleština
Costume Design: Leo Kulaš
Costume Design Assistant: Zjena Glamočanin
Stage Design: Hans Georg Schaefer
Music: Arturo Annecchino
Lighting: Zdravko Stolnik
Cast:
Milica, Marko's first wife, dead: Ksenija Pajić
Mila, Milena's mother: Perica Martinović
Milena, Marko's girlfriend (wife): Dijana Vidušin
Dragan, a man in his fifties: Ranko Zidarić
Drago, Dragan's father: Milan Pleština
Zoran, Marko and Milica's son, around 8 years old: Rakan Rushaidat
Marko, a young man: Franjo Dijak
Kučarka, a middle-aged woman: Barbara Nola
Doctor: Sven Medvešek
Wanderer: Ozren Grabarić
A woman in the world of the dead: Ivana Roščić
Stage Manager: Ana Dulčić
Prompter: Andrea Glad
Opening night: October 1, 2009
''Barbelo is where we come from and where many would like to return and hide, and each one of us should choose what that is'', stands written alongside the latest play by Biljana Srbljanović, the most frequently staged Serbian playwright in Europe. ''Barbelo - that is ''Barbello'' - is a notion used in the history of Christianity to signify the first emanation of God. ...His primeval source, primordial cause, primordial principle, a metaphisical space where everything was descended from, even we.'' Beyond such a ''metaphisical explanation'' - or perhaps below it - images are shown that tenderly and humorously, yet ironically and polemically, talk of love and death, distance and closeness...appearing significantly less political than we would expect from a new play by Srbljanović. This ''neglect for politics'' which is nevertheless present, for politics is always present, has taken her manuscript towards areas of emotional bareness, ''where life is a nightmare''. In such a life both humans and dogs are mere wanderers, beings with no stronghold and background, sentenced to mutual exhaustion, but also solidarity that is only sometimes capable of turning into true understanding.
