The omnibus play The End of the World in Three Acts is based on the texts Under the Skirt by Kristina Kegljen, The Activist by Katja Gorečan, and The World Deserves the End of the World by Tijana Grumić. All three texts have a strong feminist and authorship approach to the given theme of the experience of violence against women during the pandemic, creating an exciting universe rich in meaning with women's facts and artifacts while actively resisting neoliberal capitalism and patriarchy. The resistance applies not only to the world of the texts but also to the position of the authors and cultural workers, who are aware that they are constantly dependent on some (rare) competition, in this case, the rigid criteria of a European project. The aspect of cultural workers is expanded with documentary materials in dialogue with the text The Activist.

Resistance and female revenge open as key shared issues that become the directing through-line, whether we are in the worlds of mothers and daughters, witches and 18 stuffed birds, one pig and 13 umbilical cords, thunder, and mud, or the world of the pure white contemporary gallery of women's history with the current exhibition on female workers in culture who are calling for protest. Ultimately, it’s all one world beyond the patriarchal, whose flickers sometimes reach the collective consciousness, though we are not sure whether it truly exists or if we are merely dreaming it. That world insists on directing the mirror toward ourselves – how we look at women while they fight for their lives is a political issue.

The End of the World in Three Acts is a contemporary dramatic omnibus that, through its commanding performance, showcases the strength of the female experience from the beginning of time to today, from the universal to the narrowly theatrical. It warns us that, with the current prevailing values, the end of the world has long arrived.

Co-production by the Zagreb Youth Theatre (Croatia), Borštnikovo Srečanje Festival – SNG Maribor (Slovenia), and the Belgrade Drama Theatre (Serbia).

The project Hidden Voices from the Shadow of the Pandemic addresses the issue of violence against women during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. On this primarily silenced issue, which itself had pandemic-like characteristics, the project speaks on three levels: the level of the dramatic text, the theatre performance, and drama workshops for young people on violence.

The Creative Europe Programme (CREA) supports Hidden Voices from the Shadow of the Pandemic project.