THEME: The disintegration of a village family
N° OF CHARACTERS: 7 (4 male and 3 female)
SETTING: The Dalmation Zagora hinterland
TIME: Today
WRITTEN FROM: 1999 to 2001

SUMMARY:
The mother of Stipe, Nikola, Jerko and Seka dies during the family farmyard pig-slaughtering activities. Fascination with their mother was what had kept them together. Now both their emotional and material world falls apart. The house in which they were raised has to be divided. Half of the house goes to their maternal aunt, Strina, who has been mourning her dead son for thirteen years. He had died saving Jerko's life. Stipe had been standing on the river bank but had not jumped in to save his brother. Nikola wants to give up his part of the house to Jerko - his unmarried brother who is being destroyed by silence, painful competition with Strina, and his somewhat irrational feeling of guilt for the death of her son - and Seka, their divorced sister who had cared for their mother. Seka marries Mladen, an intellectual who has returned from the city, drawn back by his love of the land and the vine. Alarming news reaches them from Seka's son, at university in Zagreb. Persuaded by his wife, Stipe tries to pay back his debt to Nikola with his part of the house. Jerko and Strina stay on in the house, enmeshed in their shadows and guilt.

This is a story about good people whose misfortune stems from their not having shed the tears they should have, who have been raised to suffer without tears and to be quietly unhappy, to love sparingly and to hide love as if they are hiding something shameful.

The first night of Borne On by the River took place in March 2, 2002 at the Croation National Theatre (CNT) in Spli, directed by Nenni Delmestre.

THEME: Love
N° OF CHARACTERS: As many as you like; Sem and Rita must always be among them, but they can also be some other Sem and Rita
SETTING: Wherever you like
TIME: The time of Sem and Rita's love
WRITTEN IN: 2001

SUMMARY:
In a series of scenes, which are not set by number of order, Sem and Rita (or as many Sems and Ritas as you like), love each other, grow older, yearn for each other, balance on that thin line between love and friendship, want children, wait for each other, become strangers, divorce, find each other again after a long wait, jump around in the clouds.