“Disgraced” by Ayad Akhtar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning story in 2013, deals with still present socio-political topics such as islamophobia and issues of racial, religious, and national identity. It dissects the consequences of terrorist attacks around the world on relationships between colleagues, friends, or even spouses coming from different cultures, in our seemingly liberal and multicultural society.
“The heroes of our play show how many challenges there are when it comes to the issue of tolerance or intolerance towards ‘others’ in a society that is closed by national, ethnic, religious, and racial borders. It is clear that diverse societies are actually a set of different identities and cultures. In the region, in the whole world today there is an ideological-political struggle towards the acceptability or ineligibility of diversity into one society. I hope that the artistic language of this play will show that there is no place in our society nor in this story for an easy qualification of the civilization and culture”. – Dino Mustafić, director
After the play, Q&A sessions are organized held with the director, the actors, and the audience on the topic of identity, multiculturalism, human rights, the culture of remembrance, and renewal of trust within Bosnia and Herzegovina and the countries of the region.