“Radical Love is based on many interviews I had with people of Serbia and Kosovo, Christians and Muslims, during the 1999 USA spearheaded NATO bombing of Belgrade. I wanted to give a voice to the voiceless and show how innocent people suffer when politicians make mistakes —and how a group of determined kids could change the world.
After all, truth is stranger than fiction.”
Radical Love debuted in 2014
To sold out audiences in Atlanta. Directed by the award winning Prodan Dimov, the show achieved critical success and caught the attention of professional theaters in Israel and India.
Winner of the Gandhi Foundation Endorsement
In an art studio turned bomb shelter...
Thrown together by chaos and chance are a small group of Muslims and Christians, waiting out the NATO bombardment of Belgrade. Within the confines of a crowded basement a millenium of history, animosity, and misunderstanding are exposed. Though there remains much unresolved, these characters learn what binds them together is stronger that what pulls them apart. And the true agent of discord, a dictator with arms seized around the throat of the people, must be defeated to bring peace.
Trailer for the play:
I am yugoslav and american,
and in 1999 I watched one country bomb the other, while my family was still living within a besieged city. Radical Love is not only based on a true story-- it's my chance, as a journalist, to show the truth of a story never told in America. My story fuses dramatic elements of a traditional play and the historical reporting of a documentary.
Director Prodan Dimov and I incorporated multimedia to develop a unique storytelling style and peel back the layers of the complexity of ethnic strife in my homeland. But there is still much left to reveal-- personal stories to bring to light and lasting consequences to develop. The next step in the storytelling process is the Radical Love film.
Play Director
Prodan Dimov, Ph.D is a Bulgarian director who worked in Russia and came to the US in 1996. He earned his degrees at the Krastio Sarafov Higher Institute for Theater and Film Arts. His shows won awards in several international festivals in Russia and China. His first highly acclaimed show in the USA was in 1998: The Diary of a Madman at 7 Stages Theater, Atlanta. Since then, he has directed many successful theater plays in the USA, including Radical Love.
Prodan has participated in several distinctive film and television productions and is a household name in Russia concerning his remarkable absurdity theatre interpretations.
Target Audience -- US and international theater audience interested in culturally diverse, politically, socially, and historically significant entertainment. Universities are an important segment of this audience.
Performance Groups -- Professional theater, college theater, fringe groups, main stage, second stage, and black box.