Margie Yu Public Affairs Asst. The play is being presented as a co-production with Cal State L.A. and is part of the University's Dramatic Responses to the Balkan Conflict events in late October. Throughout the former Yugoslavia, this play has found large and admiring audiences. The play is a hard look at who they are and why they have come to this bleak crossroad. It is composed of a series of scenes linked by violence, which echo the conflicts that have rocked the region for centuries.
Characters come and go, but somehow the anger remains.
For this production, Timescape Arts Group brings together actors and technicians from throughout the former Yugoslavia as well as Europe. The group includes professionals from Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia, in addition to performers from Italy, France, Czechoslovakia and the United States. The variety of acting styles, the diversity of training and accents augmented by often conflicting points of view give this production a multi-layered expression of the human capacity for anger and violence. Timescape Arts Group is a producing body of writers, directors and designers. Collective credits include extensive theatrical productions from around the world and a vast variety of professional experience as feature film writers, television producers, and costume and set designers.