A woman is a sack made to endure. – the Kanun, the Code of Lekë Dukagjini from the Middle Ages, north Albania and Kosovo.
#Unwanted. That’s a common girl name in our Montenegro. – a Women’s Rights Centre poster of a campaign against selective abortion practice, Montenegro, 2017
Montenegro’s last “virgina” has died. Her last wish was for her family-grave epitaph to describe her as her father’s only surviving son. – Blic, 2 August 2016
Sonny! – says a close relative when I visit her in Montenegro.
Sonny is an attempt at an anthropological research of a specific phenomenon in a performative form. It is an amazed fascination with images and stories of sworn virgins or “virginas” from the remote parts of Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo and Metohija. It is a hole in the system which maintains that same system. It is drag in relation to the question of surviving in a man’s world asking us in what world we live.
Author and Performer: Nataša Živković
also performing: Daniel Petković, Loup Abramovici
space design and scenography: Lenka Đorojević
lighting design and technical direction: Špela Škulj
photography: Nada Žgank
artistic advisory: Teja Reba
executive producer: Eva Prodan
production: City of Women
co-production: Bunker – Old Power Station
special thanks to: Maska and Mladinsko Theatre.
Performance was made in frame of Performing gender – Dance makes differences.
Duration: 40 min.
The project was supported by Creative Europe, the Ministry of Culture and the City of Ljubljanain 2018.
Friday, 6.11.2026
9:00–10:00 p.m.
📍 Na Grobli Studio of the Grotowski Institute, 30–32 Na Grobli St, 50-421 Wrocław
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