Written by Marko Tomaš

Direction: IVICA BULJAN
Dramaturge: ROBERT VALTL
Composer of original music based on Aleksa Šantić’s poetry:
MITJA VRHOVNIK SMREKAR
Music: MITJA VRHOVNIK SMREKAR, VLADIMIR MIĆKOVIĆ,
MARIO KNEZOVIĆ
Costume designer: NEBOJŠA LIPANOVIĆ
Scene design, light design, video design: TONI SOPRANO MENEGLEJTE + SONDA3
Photographer, graphic designer: TONI SOPRANO MENEGLEJTE
Assistant director: KARMEN OBRDALJ

Cast

Aleksa K. (spirit of the poet, with a death mask, conferencier, waiter): MARIO KNEZOVIĆ
Singer (entertainer following the spirit, signs when paid): VLADIMIR MIĆKOVIĆ
Aleksa Šantić (poet in a dying, old-age, burial room): IVO KREŠIĆ
Radojka Persa Ćorović (Aleksa’s sister, S. Ćorović’s wife): JELENA KORDIĆ KURET
Svetozar Ćorović (Aleksa’s brother-in-law, friend, narrator, dying man), Jovan Dučić (diplomat, poet, peer): MIRO BARNJAK
Jakov Šantić (Aleksa’s younger, dead brother): FILIP LUKENDA
Osman Đikić (dead young poet, friend): ROBERT PEHAR
Miloš Crnjanski (young writer on army training in Mostar), Avant guard woman: ANA FRANJČEVIĆ
Miroslav Krleža (young writer visiting old bard): DAMIR ČOBO
Micika (middle-aged prostitute): MIRELA MIJAČANK KORDIĆ
Mara Šantić (Aleksa’s dead mother): NIKOLINA MARIĆ
Avant guard woman: TEA PANDŽA

The tracks used in the play:
“Virujen u te” by Severina; “Đe se tvoji kopaju” by Krajišnici Miloš i Karađorđ; “Kada Zagreb izranja iz sna” by Azra; “Aria” by Ditka Haberl; “O, majko, majko” by Toma Zdravković; “Mostarske ptice” by Svjetlan Skakić

The play is 1 hour and 25 minutes long