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Balkan Women, The

  • Jules Tasca
  • Full Length Play, Drama
  • 2M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573696268

"Theatrically bold and politically moving.... The dialogue has an odd and effective stateliness, as though we're listening to a translation of an ancient work."

Variety.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Cautions: Gun Shots, Intense Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 1997/98 Barrymore Award for Best New Play
This meditation on the horror of war set in 1990 brings the spirit of Euripides to a Serbian detention camp for Muslim women.

Men are pitted against women, Christians against Muslims, and Croats against Serbs in a drama that bares the inner conflicts that result when society is governed by illogical ethnic hatreds.

A hard boiled, devoutly Christian guard is torn by conflicting inner voices as he interrogates a prisoner and her mother about an explosion that killed sixteen of his soldiers. The arrival of a new, wounded camp commandant triggers murder and inevitable catastrophes reminiscent of ancient tragedy.
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Theatrically bold and politically moving.... The dialogue has an odd and effective stateliness, as though we're listening to a translation of an ancient work.

Variety.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 3F
  • Casting Notes: Plus Chorus

  • SAMIRA JUSIC - A Muslim prisoner in a Serbian camp.
    AMINA JUSIC - Samira's mother.
    COLONEL BRANISLAV HERAK - The camp Commandant.
    LIEUTENANT JOVAN VLACO - One of the camp interrogators.
    JELA KALJANAO - Another Muslim prisoner.

    There is also a polyphonic chorus of four men and four women, adjuncts to the actors. The chorus sometimes speak with the characters to give emphasis, force or punctuation to a line.

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    Balkan Women, The Script Order Now

    This meditation on the horror of war set in 1990 brings the spirit of Euripides to a Serbian detention camp for Muslim women. Men are pitted against women, Christians against Muslims, and Croats against Serbs in a drama that bares the inner conflicts that result when society is governed by illogical ethnic hatreds. A hard boiled, devoutly Christian guard is torn by conflicting inner voices as he interrogates a prisoner and her mother about an explosion that killed sixteen of his soldiers. The arrival of a new, wounded camp commandant triggers murder and inevitable catastrophes reminiscent of ancient tragedy.

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