Mostar is located in the south of Bosnia-Herzegovina, near the sea. The Old Bridge that Igor Memic tells us about, built in Shakespeare’s time, destroyed in the war in 1993, rebuilt in 2004, symbolizes the division of the country and the city, because it connects (or does not connect) the Croatian Catholic population with the Bosnian one -Muslim. Before its dissolution, Yugoslavia was an exemplary multi-ethnic, if artificial, entity; Mostar is described in the play as “an infinitely twisted Rubik’s cube of religions.” The cruel civil war between 1992 and 1995 robbed the cube of its magic. This is what the piece “The Bridge of Mostar” (original: “Old Bridge”) is about.
“The Bridge of Mostar” at the Oberhausen Theater: Closer Impacts – Culture
