‹I Hate the Truth› presents the most traumatic events of Oliver Frljić's family life from when he was 16 until the time he left home. The main characters of this Serbo-Croatian family drama in Bosnia are his mother, Slađana, his father, Dragan, his sister, Marina, and himself.
Frljić's theatre project has no fixed structure. The audience is arranged in a square around the space where the actors/family members discuss matters with the director/son/brother/author: They hold him accountable, argue about values and relive all the episodes of love, work, announcements of war as if they were happening right here and now. The actors frequently escape the predefined fictional text structure by addressing Oliver Frljić, the son and brother, as the director of the play, thus questioning the fictionalisation of autobiographic elements and the resulting manipulation. Since the actors are more or less free to decide in which direction the play develops, the play is different every time it is performed. The family history is exposed as a construct. The question of what really happened, what is the truth, is omnipresent throughout the entire play. It is also reflected in its title - an ironic statement about theatre as the medium for any kind of truth.
Direction & Concept: Oliver Frljić
Actors: Ivana Roščić, Rakan Rushaidat, Filip Križan, Iva Visković
Production: University of Zagreb - Student Center in Zagreb - Culture of change - &TD Theatre
Duration: 60 min
