Max, Mischa and the Tet Offensive

Première: 17. 10. 2025, Dvorana ISTRA, Zagrebško gledališče mladih (HR)
The performance lasts 3 hours and 35 minutes and includes one intermission.
Surtitles: Slovene
Original title: Max, Mischa i ofenziva Tet

Novel translator Anja Majnarić, Publisher of the Croatian edition Naklada OceanMore
Director Ivica Buljan
Author of the dramatization and dramaturg Vid Hribar
Set designer Aleksandar Denić
Costume designer Ana Savić Gecan
Composer Darko Rundek
Artistic collaborator Robert Waltl
Video designer Toni Soprano Meneglejte
Lighting design Sonda 13
Assistant dramaturg Patrik Sečen
Assistants Costume designer Tina Spahija, Nika Čuić, Marija Čop
Movement Coach and Stage Combat Antonio Grabić

Cast  
Ugo Korani, Hrvojka Begović, Ivan Jurković, Rakan Rushaidat, Sreten Mokrović, Vedran Živolić, Nataša Dangubić, Dado Ćosić, Barbara Prpić, Milivoj Beader, Rok Juričić, Luka Knez, Toma Medvešek 

Max, Mischa and the Tet Offensive is a play about growing up, family, migration, movement, and above all, time. On the one hand, time does what it only knows how to do - it moves forward. On the other hand, it occasionally turns into a storm. Sometimes this storm takes on apocalyptic proportions, meteorological, but also intimate and political. Moving, wars, oil rig discoveries, friendship breakdowns, recessions, love shipwrecks in the centrifuge of Max's memories become a story about the constant human need to adapt and move forward. The play, based on the novel by Johan Harstad, focuses on theatre director Max Hansen, once a Norwegian, now a homeless man torn between American highways, a theatre tour, his own memories, and an uncertain future. From this position, Max unfolds his life in front of us in a Proustian way, hoping that one day he will reach home, wherever and whenever that may be.

The play asks the question that everyone who has ever left asks themselves sooner or later: How long do you have to be away before it becomes too late to come home.