MONODRAMA

How do we perceive time and space if we are isolated from everything we took for granted by an external force? What creates our identity? What is the relationship between reality and illusion? What is freedom, actually? Is it somehow related to time?
Upon returning from a guest performance in Macedonia, while entering Serbia, members of Dogma Theater were subjected to a customs inspection, during which customs officers discovered a starter gas pistol used in the performance “Višegrad -1” among the props. According to an expert opinion from the National Center for Forensic Sciences, it was determined that this is a convertible weapon that can only be owned and carried in the Republic of Serbia with a permit from a state authority. The Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in the city of Vranje charged the vehicle owner, Kamil Bystrický, with the criminal offense of illegal production, possession, carrying, and trading of weapons and explosives, and requested the court to impose a one-year prison sentence and reimbursement of court proceedings costs. Kamil Bystrický’s monodrama is a record of the fragmentation of a once-unified perception of presence and being.