Cafe Sarajevo (2020 Progress Festival), Photo by Harry Chan

Created and performed by bluemouth inc., and presented as part of the 2020 Progress Festival (SummerWorks), Café Sarajevo is an immersive, interactive theatrical experience that explores borders, nationalism, and the forces that can unite and divide us. 

The production takes the form of a live podcast, where two hosts interview Lucy Simic (co-creator) about her recent trip to Bosnia, her father’s birthplace. Disturbed by Trump’s presidency and the xenophobia his rhetoric has normalized, she set out to explore divided cities, places fraught with trauma from the Bosnian war, where personal and political history are caught in a festering knot. Continue Reading