Amina Begović

PREMIERE OF “ALCESTIS”

It is hard to figure out what classical tragedy is. And what tragedy is, in general. But tragedy was all around us; we were a part of tragedy. So it was easy to figure out the meaning of life and death and Alcestis is exactly about that, to figure out what death is and how. I played one of the Alcestis, because it was a version where there were a lot of those women. She is a woman who sacrifices herself. Who agrees to die instead of her husband? All of us had been in those situations. Would I agree this time to go and fetch water and would my husband stay at home, or would my children, it is not important. All of us were sacrificing ourselves for somebody. So it was one feeling which was familiar to us. Death was not some far-away notion any more.