Would Be a Shame if the Plants Died

Author and director: Ivor Martinić

Starring: Mina Obradović, Marko Vasiljević, Nedim Nezirović

Producer: Selena Pleskonjić

Photography: Milena Arsenić

Design: Miroslav Živanov

Premiere: 13th September 2022 at the Heartefact House during EuroPride 2022 (season 2022/2023)

“Would Be a Shame if the Plants Died” is a project of writer and director Ivor Martinić. It is a romantic play about a couple that decides to end their relationship. Without existential sentimentality and big words, this intimate story takes the audience through a number of existential questions through a series of simple dialogues.

“This play is about the end of a long-term romantic relationship. When one partner fails to remember the most important event in the relationship for the other, a crisis arises that triggers a series of existential questions and doubts. Through numerous encounters, the now former couple tries to arrive at a common truth, so that they can move on. The play talks about the need to tell an intimate history, the need for togetherness and communication. The structure of the play is open, providing numerous possibilities for performance, and requires actors to borrow from their own biographies or improvise similar ones. In the production of Heartefact, two autonomous plays are created in which three brilliant young actors tell the same story in two completely different ways.”

Ivor Martinić

Festivals/guest performances

Mirëdita, dobar dan! – Prishtina, May 2023
Pride Week in Novi Sad – Novi Sad, May 2024
Heartefact’s queer caravan – Barajevo, Studentski Grad (November – December 2023)

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Would Be a Shame if the Plants Died

Would Be a Shame if the Plants Died is a romantic play about a couple that decides to end their relationship. Without existential sentimentality and big words, this intimate story takes the audience through a number of existential questions through a series of simple dialogues.

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Quiet Hours from Two to Six

Art&Money

They Are All Gone

All The Good Barbies

How I Learned to Drive

Climax

Before We Begin

Would Be a Shame if the Plants Died

A Short History of Burgers and other stories

Our Son

Hypermnesia

Workers Die Singing

Scratching

Bent

Finger

Hunger

This Grave is Too Small for Me

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

October 6 (A summer vacation story)

Werther: You Either Have Hope or You Don’t

How’s It Her Fault None Of It Is Her Fault

Remains

PERFORMANCE – 48 Hours of Awakeness

Miss Julie

Kiddo

Intimacy

Ghosts

Uncle Vanya

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Would Be a Shame if the Plants Died

Would Be a Shame if the Plants Died

There's more

Quiet Hours from Two to Six

Art&Money

They Are All Gone

All The Good Barbies

How I Learned to Drive

Climax

Before We Begin

Would Be a Shame if the Plants Died

A Short History of Burgers and other stories

Our Son

Hypermnesia

Workers Die Singing

Scratching

Bent

Finger

Hunger

This Grave is Too Small for Me

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

October 6 (A summer vacation story)

Werther: You Either Have Hope or You Don’t

How’s It Her Fault None Of It Is Her Fault

Remains

PERFORMANCE – 48 Hours of Awakeness

Miss Julie

Kiddo

Intimacy

Ghosts

Uncle Vanya

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