Small funeral home in a small town. A town so boring that your car navigation yawns as you pass through it. Who was Martin? A lover or a fighter? A nice person? An artist or an amateur? Perhaps he liked music. Probably he liked to fish. How well do we know our dead and what do we think of them, really? They say in Latin; De mortibus nihil nisi bene!

Written by Luka Kuzmanovic, the play is set in a funeral home, 2 actors play several characters; friends, neighbors, family members of the deceased Martin. Who was Martin? As a person, as a painter, as a lover and as a friend? How well did we know him? His Italian neighbor, his mother, his high school bully turned friend, his drinking companion, his driving school instructor, his uncle and his mentor will try to answer these questions in a 50-minute metaphysical and esoterical search for Martin… The play is about death and love in a small town, about our relationship with the deceased. Small towns, small destinies, small deaths. Do we live simply to die? Is death “the final development phase of Man”, as a famous doctor once said

This play is a small coproduction between Theatre DeeL, based in Lodz House of Literature and Stoos teatar, an independent theatre group from Croatia. Originally played in Polish by a Croatian and Slovak actor, both based in Poland, the play is played also in Slovak. The play also has a Croatian version, directed by Mirel Huskić and played by Stoos teatar in Velika Gorica and Zagreb.

Language: Croatian and English / Duration: 50 min

Author: Luka Kuzmanovic / Director: Luka Kuzmanovic, mentor Adam Wrzesinski / Cast: Luka Kuzmanovic, Martin Jamrich