Demilitarisation of Drama is a festival of stage readings, with a goal to demilitarise playwriting. We encourage the creation of new, alternative, and explicitly anti-militaristic narratives, but we also revise the history of theatre by including readings of previously unperformed plays which, at the time of their creation, did not get a chance to have a greater impact.

Boys Will Not Carry Guns, written in 2019 by Jelena Paligorić Sinkević, examines the role of educational institutions and the modern way of life on parents who are forced to expose their children to a malfunctioning system at a very early age. Boys Will Not Carry Guns also deals with themes of heritage and demilitarisation, questioning what society hasn't learned. Finally, this is primarily a text about the sincere and uncompromising friendships of children. The reading will be performed by an ensemble from the Little Theatre Duško Radović, the RCCM Children's Club, and the Two Angry Earthworms drama studio. 

This play is just one exciting part of the wider Demilitarisation of Drama festival, which we are delighted to be able to share at the AAG 2023. Also, as part of the festival was a reading of Poor Mileva from Bosnia in our Civilization 1878 by Albina Podgradska, which took place in early October at the National Theatre Subotica. In December, the festival continues with a planned reading of the play Girls by Salimata Togora, an author from Mali, in cooperation with the Museum of African Art in Belgrade and the Puls Theatre Lazarevac.

The reading of Boys Will Not Carry Guns is directed by Anđelka Nikolić, produced by the Rural Cultural Center Markovac, and supported by the Reconstruction Women's Fund.

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