Title
THIN GRAY LINE

Inspired by the recent school shootings in the former Yugoslav region, the play explores the media’s tendency to turn violence into spectacle or to further dramatize it. As perspectives and narrative threads intertwine and shift, the Author—who is writing the play—finds herself in an internal conflict and gradually becomes an unreliable reporter. In the fluid passage between documentary and drama, one truth remains unreachable: the child’s point of view.

Biography

Adna Dautović was born in 2003 in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a member of a drama studio, she participated in programs and workshops at theatre festivals including MESS, SarajevoFest, and Reflektor Teatar. In 2022, she enrolled in the Dramaturgy program at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, where she was named Best Student of her department in 2023. That same year, she worked as coordinator for the student and short film competitions at the Sarajevo Film Festival. In 2024, she took part in the Mladinsko Showcase at the Slovene Youth Theatre, and later that year became the selector for the international high school theatre festival Juventafest. Her ten-minute play Ćaskanje will be featured in the Dramadžiluk program at the 2025 MESS Festival.