Red Love - BITEF Theater ( Serbia)

Director and dramatization: Olga Dimitrijevic

Actors: Vladimir Aleksic, Jelena Ilic, Milica Stefanovic and Ana Curchin

Music: Ana Curchin

Executive production: Dragana Jovovic and Jovana Janjic

Video: Deana Petrovic

Graphic design: Katarina Popovic

Photography: Marija Radosavljevic

Production: uz)bu))na))) and Bitef teatar

The play Red Love was made based on the novel Free Love by the Russian writer and revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai. It deals with the revolutionary idea of love, by questioning the patriarchal and capitalist societal mechanisms that shaped contemporary modern love and produced their present forms. Today, when we talk about alternatives to capitalism and how to think and realize them, the work of Kollontai becomes relevant in a matter of the policy of the everyday life on all levels, from economic to emotional. If by revolution we think of a radical change of the existing social relationship of power and capital in the name of equality, social welfare and unity, than this must occur within the basic cell of the capitalist society, the private sector, whose core is the patriarchal family. In short, the patriarchy, the bourgeois marriage and heteronormative family are not compatible with a more just world. Therefore it is necessary to insist on overcoming the reproduction of gender and sexual stereotypes, to devise a revolution that will break all the established limitations of freedom and love.