Boško and Admira

Première 31. 1. 2026, Dvorana Pošta, Slovensko mladinsko gledališče

Running time 1 hour and 50 minutes, no intermission. 

Director Živa Bizovičar

Dramaturg Nik Žnidaršič

Set and video designer Dorian Šilec Petek

Costume designer Nina Čehovin

Author of music selection and sound designer Gašper Lovrec

Lighting designer Andrej Hajdinjak

Language consultant Mateja Dermelj

Author of the graffiti Dorijan Šiško

Stage manager Urša Červ

Cast Primož Bezjak, Nataša Keser, Boris Kos, Kaja Petrovič as guest, Stane Tomazin

Special thanks to Marko Turk and Boštjan Videmšek.

Audience Award at the Fast Forward Festival (2025)
 

The starting point of the project is a wartime photo of a dead couple, embraced, on the Vrbanja Bridge. The Muslim Admira Ismić and the Orthodox Boško Brkić tried to escape the besieged Sarajevo in 1993, but were shot mere metres before the border. Two Americans, the photographer Mark H. Milstein and the journalist Kurt Schork, named the couple “Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo” and turned the tragic death of two young people into a sensationalist story, their bodies into an image of love, brought down by war. The photo thus raises a number of unanswerable questions about how the public responds to such images and whether some stories, some lives, are more important than others. Beyond the specific photograph, a broader issue of war photography arises: its purpose, goal, ethics, effectiveness, and ability to shock today. Caught between glorifying war violence and drawing attention to the horrors of war, the war photography thus finds itself in a similar position to the performance – it speaks of something that cannot be put into words.