| What: Sarajevo Created by: Aimee Mica Komorowsky Director: Thorsten Wedekind Performers: Aimee Mica Komorowsky, Jeremy Richard, Alistair Moulton Black and Ivan Nedeljkovic. Where and when: The Outlore Base, December 10–11 Booking link: https://www.quicket.co.za/events/350247-sarajevo/#/ Homecoming Centre, December 16–19 Booking link: https://www.webtickets.co.za/V2/event.aspx?itemid=1581674856 |
Before the End Productions is presenting the premiere of Sarajevo in Cape Town, December 2025. This “haunting and deeply human” play created by Aimee Mica Komorowsky and directed by Thorsten Wedekind is being staged at two venues: December 2025: The Outlore Base from December 10–11, and the Homecoming Centre from December 16–19. Read on for more about the play which was recently staged in Joburg, at The Theatre on the Square (October 2025), to rave reviews:
Love, friendship and war – because theatre remembers what history forgets
At its core, Sarajevo is a play about love, friendship, and the war that tried to erase them. Three childhood friends—bound by loyalty and fractured by faith—find their lives torn apart as conflict engulfs their city. Observing from behind the lens, a foreign journalist documents their unravelling… until even the camera becomes complicit.
A story of friendship, betrayal, and the human cost of turning a neighbour into an enemy, Sarajevo explores the intimate fractures created by war and the universal echoes they leave behind. Sarajevo is not just a story of war; it’s a story of us.
Because theatre remembers what history forgets.
The production features a powerful ensemble cast: Aimee Mica Komorowsky, Jeremy Richard, Alistair Moulton Black, and
Ivan Nedeljkovic.
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PERFORMANCE DETAILS
Venue 1: The Outlore Base
Dates: December 10–11
Tickets: Available online via Quicket
Ticket Link: https://www.quicket.co.za/events/350247-sarajevo/#/
Venue 2: Homecoming Centre
Dates: December 16–19
Tickets: Available online via Webtickets or at Pick n’ Pay
Ticket Link: https://www.webtickets.co.za/V2/event.aspx?itemid=1581674856
| Follow Sarajevo on Social Media and in the media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarajevo.play Instagram: @sarajevo_stage_play Info: sarajevoproduction@gmail.com Reviews Barry Morisse (Theatre): “There’s a moment in SARAJEVO when the stage falls into near-complete darkness, illuminated only by the trembling glow of torches held by characters whose faces have become masks of grief and rage. In that moment, sitting in the intimate space of that theatre, I realized I had stopped breathing.” Bruce Dennill (pArticipate): “The script, direction and acting all do well to give the sense of an epic story… It’s notable that, even with all this invested intensity, all the actors make their own indelible mark… SARAJEVO is a play that will have you frowning and sighing as you process it, but for its depth and tragedy, not for any shortfall in its construction and performance.” Sam Says: “Phwoar! What a gut punch of truth – visceral, soul-hitting, almost indescribable, emotional in unexpected waves, confusing, enlightening, frustrating, heartbreaking…. helpless.” Janice Kelvin Leibowitz: “As uncomfortable and uneasy as this will make you feel, this is a must-see. It’s disturbing in its brilliance and in its ability to display the stark, horrifying reality of war and the despair and desperation of those whose lives it destroys not only by its very nature, but by the choices it forces them to make. GO AND SEE IT!!” Edward Tsumele (Citylife/arts): “SARAJEVO is no ordinary play. It not only portrays a society in turmoil during a raging war, but other spectacles that happen in society caught up in the bigger spectacle, that is the war itself.” |
The Spaces – a note from the team
Sarajevo can live in any space. Each space reshapes the emotional experience of the work.
At the Outlore Theatre, an industrial, warehouse-like environment, the audience is plunged into raw exposure: no velvet curtains, no illusion of safety. Just breath, bodies, sound, and story colliding in real time. The space strips away distance and places the audience inside the emotional wreckage.
At the Homecoming Centre, a traditional theatre holds the same story with a different tension. It is framed, contained, allowing the trauma to be witnessed from the dark with collective stillness. These shifting environments mirror the psychology of the play itself: chaos and order, rupture and reflection. Sarajevo adapts because trauma adapts. It lives in streets, in homes, in institutions, and in memory. Proving that the impact of the work is not dependent on walls, but on the shared emotional architecture between performers and audience.
✳ Sarajevo the play – in this pic – Aimee Mica Komorowsky and Alistair Moulton Black. Sponsored content. images supplied.
