John Adams
GIDIONOV ČVOR/GIDION’S KNOT
Directed by Ivan Vanja Alač

Studio Stage of the Montenegrin National Theatre (CNP), May 4 at 8 PM

Gidion’s Knot is a place where adults try to explain something that is very difficult to explain. More precisely, the silence of a child. When I first read the play, I thought about how little it takes for the world to explode, or disappear like a feather. Just one conversation, just one child, one unnecessary word to tip everything into irreversibility.

While we were working, we spent most of the time in silence. And that silence became the most honest part of the process. I realized that the drama is not only about a child who is no longer here, but about all of us trying to remain human when we no longer know how.

This is certainly not a play that offers answers. On the contrary, it simply asks us to sit at the same table and try to endure that moment which carries an entire lifetime—when we no longer know who owes the truth to whom.

Stefan Bošković