Performance Woman Bomb

«Woman-Bomb» by the Croatian playwright Ivana Sajko is the monologue of a female suicide bomber, who reflects in the last minutes before the explosion of the bomb not only her action, but her circumstances that lead her to this action.

Based on this text, Director and Perfomer Sanja Ristic, conceived and staged a rock concert combined with dance and theatre. The musical and aesthetic form of expression that is used in musical theatre reflects the emotional and excessive condition of this woman immediately before her action and follows the radical emotional world of the female suicide bomber.

Words from the press: Sanja Ristic and her team succeeded in bringing enormous emotional sensitivities on stage and managed to avoid clichés without losing the appropriate seriousness that is required for the subject. "Protect me from myself" is a performance that stirs emotions and grabs you. It is in the mix: Silence and self-reflexive moments in which the suicide remembers her past are set against excessive dance scenes, songs and dynamic musical intermezzi. Still the fast show with this serious subject never sinks to arbitrary or befriending concernment. "Protect me from myself" abstains from any moral values. The inner life of the possibly prototypical female suicide bomber stays a fragment and is presented to the audience only in extracts. It is obvious that the performance leaves many questions. How else would it be possible to deal with this subject?