Having won the special prize for its performance “Ex-position” at 41st Bitef 2007, the theatre troupe “Bacači sjenki” from Zagreb comes to this year’s Bitef with the performance “Vacation from History”. It is questionable, though, if it could be called a performance after all: it contains neither a story nor any visible acting. It is all about letting the audience immerse themselves in a dreamlike state and the free imagination about “the intimate history which caresses us since the real one has driven us crazy”, as the theatre critic Bojan Munjin has put it, with a conclusion that it is “so sincere, deep and remedial that it is worth more than a season’s repertoire”.
