Birth Certificate – Danilo Kiš
Based on Birth Certificate – The Story of Danilo Kiš by Mark Thompson, with parts from Garden, Ashes and Hourglass by Danilo Kiš.
A musical portrayal of a person with a complex biography, a free-spirited creator, anti-nationalist and dissident – Danilo Kiš.
Danilo Kiš was the last Yugoslav, Jewish writer of Hungarian-Montenegrin descent and it is said that only his death, in 1989, prevented him from receiving the Nobel Prize. An artist of high morals, a seducer, bohemian and troubadour, who managed to live in harmony with his own moral principles, regardless of the consequences.
What happens in the meeting between the actors’ life stories and Danilo’s? How do we view developments in the society we live in? On everything that conditions, limits and humiliates us in the search for ourselves?
Four actors and a musician portray several versions of the author by mixing documentary and fiction, music and language.
The performance is directed by Kokan Mladenović, one of the most talked about, award-winning and provocative directors in the Western Balkans’.
Production info
Direction and concept: Kokan Mladenović
On stage: Linnéa Giczi, Folke Narin, Suzanna Santrac, Zeljko Santrac and Jonatan Sersam
Set and costume design: Annika Carlsson and Jennie Andersson
Music: Jonatan Sersam
Dramaturgy: Mikael Olsson
Production: Emma Therkelson
Assistant directors: Nikola Pušičić
Graphic design: Molly Byström
With the support of: The Culture Council (Kulturrådet), The City of Malmö (Malmö Stad), Lund Municipality (Lunds kommun) and The Artists’ Board (Konstnärsnämnden).
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