{"id":178,"date":"2017-03-19T20:06:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T20:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmino.org\/cosmino\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:07:42","slug":"dreams-die-hard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/en\/dreams-die-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams Die Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div tabindex=\"0\" class=\"cycloneslider cycloneslider-template-standard cycloneslider-width-responsive\" id=\"cycloneslider-dreams-1\" style=\"max-width:960px\" > <div class=\"cycloneslider-slides cycle-slideshow\" data-cycle-allow-wrap=\"true\" data-cycle-dynamic-height=\"off\" data-cycle-auto-height=\"960:600\" data-cycle-auto-height-easing=\"null\" data-cycle-auto-height-speed=\"250\" data-cycle-delay=\"0\" data-cycle-easing=\"\" data-cycle-fx=\"fade\" data-cycle-hide-non-active=\"false\" data-cycle-log=\"false\" data-cycle-next=\"#cycloneslider-dreams-1 .cycloneslider-next\" data-cycle-pager=\"#cycloneslider-dreams-1 .cycloneslider-pager\" data-cycle-pause-on-hover=\"true\" data-cycle-prev=\"#cycloneslider-dreams-1 .cycloneslider-prev\" data-cycle-slides=\"&gt; div\" data-cycle-speed=\"1000\" data-cycle-swipe=\"false\" data-cycle-tile-count=\"7\" data-cycle-tile-delay=\"100\" data-cycle-tile-vertical=\"true\" data-cycle-timeout=\"0\" > <div class=\"cycloneslider-slide cycloneslider-slide-image\" > <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_7753.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption\"> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption-title\"><\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption-description\">photo: Tomek Szlufik<\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-slide cycloneslider-slide-image\" > <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_7965.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption\"> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption-title\"><\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption-description\">photo: Tomek Szlufik<\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-slide cycloneslider-slide-image\" > <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dreams-1-e1539633384230-960x600.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/> <\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-slide cycloneslider-slide-image\" > <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_7973.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption\"> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption-title\"><\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption-description\">photo: Tomek Szlufik<\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-slide cycloneslider-slide-youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:62.5%\"> <iframe id=\"cycloneslider-dreams-1-iframe-0\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YMLUNFuI5F0?wmode=transparent&rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-slide cycloneslider-slide-image\" > <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dreams-3-e1539633268474-960x600.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/> <\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-slide cycloneslider-slide-image\" > <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dreams-2-e1539633338272-960x600.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/> <\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-slide cycloneslider-slide-image\" > <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_8095.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption\"> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption-title\"><\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-caption-description\">photo: Tomek Szlufik<\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"cycloneslider-pager\"><\/div> <a href=\"#\" class=\"cycloneslider-prev\"> <span class=\"arrow\"><\/span> <\/a> <a href=\"#\" class=\"cycloneslider-next\"> <span class=\"arrow\"><\/span> <\/a> <\/div>\n<div style=\"max-width: 800px; margin: 30px auto; padding: 25px; background-color: #cccccc; border-radius: 12px; font-family: sans-serif;\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 15px;\">DREAMS DIE HARD<\/h4>\n<p>When Olive, my Grandmother died in 1998, I came across a diary she had written between 1945-46.<br \/>\nWhat she wrote inside exploded everything we thought we knew about how my Father came into the world.<br \/>\nHer words conjured into life the daily struggle of a single woman seizing every moment as the bombs rained down on London town.<br \/>\nWhen the bombs fell silent, Olive\u2019s sudden loss of independence was unbearable.<br \/>\nIn a time before the establishment of the NHS and the Welfare State, being a single, unmarried mother was not desirable.<br \/>\nAn unplanned pregnancy, a Turkish &#8211; Cypriot lover, a red headed American solider and a monkey. This is Olive\u2019s story.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not sure she would like me to tell it but I\u2019m going to anyway.<br \/>\nBecause in these futuristic post war days where words like\u00a0<strong>feminism<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>immigration<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>populism<\/strong>\u00a0divide us so brutally \u2013 it is my story too.<\/p>\n<p><em>I must have a very strong streak of foreign blood in me because I have never in my life felt any love for my country.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I find in this narrow world, I have to conform to a pattern. My spirit of adventure must be sacrificed.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Make me more content to live in a humdrum world. Make me forget all the other things my restless spirit craves.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ever since I was a child, I\u2019ve wanted to travel to find a Utopia, travel on and on until I found it.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Well, dreams die hard.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Olive Davis, London 1945<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Performed and written by<\/strong>\u00a0Rachel Karafistan<br \/>\n<strong>Inspired by<\/strong>\u00a0a diary by Olive Davis<br \/>\n<strong>Direction:<\/strong>\u00a0Kuba Pierzchalski<br \/>\n<strong>Music:<\/strong>\u00a0Kuba Pierzchalski<br \/>\n<strong>Set Design &amp; Construction:<\/strong>\u00a0Kuba Pierzchalski<br \/>\n<strong>Props and Video Animation:<\/strong>\u00a0Kamil Macejko<br \/>\n<strong>Drawings:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jojohnston.online\">\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jojohnston.online\">Jo Johnston<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Premiere:<\/strong>\u00a013th October 2018, Theater Haus Mitte, Berlin<br \/>\n<em>Surtitles currently available in Polish &amp; German &#8211; all other languages possible \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 800px; margin: 30px auto; padding: 25px; background-color: #ffffff; border-radius: 12px; font-family: sans-serif;\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 15px;\">PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES:<\/h4>\n<p>Theater Haus Mitte, Berlin \u2013 January 2019<br \/>\nTeatr Osmego Dnia, Poznan, Poland \u2013 February 2019<br \/>\nA Piece of the Continent Festival (Voila! Europe and Actors Centre)\u00a0Tristan Bates Theatre, Covent Garden, London \u2013 April 2019<br \/>\n32<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Edition of the International Theatre Festival \u2018Valise\u2019, Lomza, Poland \u2013 June 2019<br \/>\nThe Albany Theatre, Earlsdon, Coventry UK<br \/>\nO S T H A F E N\u00a0 VIII\u00a0\/ Circus of Live International\u00a0 Festival for Puppet and Object Theatre, Theater des Lachens, Frankfurt (Oder) Germany \u2013 September 2019<br \/>\nTeatr Tlusta Langusta, Poznan, Poland, November 2019<br \/>\nTheater Haus Mitte, Berlin, Germany \u2013 December 2019<br \/>\nInternational Maifestspiele \/ International May Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany &#8211; May 2020 &#8211;<br \/>\nTeatr \u00d3smego Dnia, Pozna\u0144, Poland &#8211; October 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 800px; margin: 30px auto; padding: 25px; background-color: #dcdcdc; border-radius: 12px; font-family: sans-serif;\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 15px;\">AUDIENCES REACTIONS &amp; REVIEWS:<\/h4>\n<p><em>\u2018A storytelling masterclass that was superbly designed, beautifully written and performed to perfection.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Simply stunning\u2026 will stay with me forever.\u2019\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2018A fantastic evening of theatre with a timely message\u2019<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2018Just fabulous\u2019\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2018A gorgeous show\u2019<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2018European theatre at its finest\u2019<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2018The kind of show they write about in books\u2019<\/em><br \/>\n<em>This is story-telling at its brilliant best. Personal, incisive, at times funny, yet also sad and highly thought-provoking.\u00a0<\/em><em>Dreams Die Hard also contains the best-ever explanation of Brexit courtesy of the good old British fry-up. <strong>TVINE MAGAZINE, London<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-vine.com\/review-dreams-die-hard-story-telling-at-its-brilliant-best\/?fbclid=IwAR29D3JF2GUufFQhESFaPhk973WAETWO4sBtqWCWBm4sMemd_36JzWHh7wY\"><em>http:\/\/www.t-vine.com\/review-dreams-die-hard-story-telling-at-its-brilliant-best\/?fbclid=IwAR29D3JF2GUufFQhESFaPhk973WAETWO4sBtqWCWBm4sMemd_36JzWHh7wY<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2014 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Festival-winner-badge-Winner-award-laur-Graphics-32338109-1-1-580x387-1-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-id=\"2014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Festival-winner-badge-Winner-award-laur-Graphics-32338109-1-1-580x387-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Festival-winner-badge-Winner-award-laur-Graphics-32338109-1-1-580x387-1.png 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 800px; margin: 30px auto; padding: 25px; background-color: #ffffff; border-radius: 12px; font-family: sans-serif;\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 15px;\">Dreams Die Hard awarded Acting Prize at the 32nd International Theatre Festival in \u0141om\u017ca<\/h4>\n<p>In June 2019 Rachel won the Acting Award for Dreams Die Hard at the prestigious 32nd International Theatre Festival in Lomza, Poland. Huge gratitude to Jaroslaw Antonik and the rest of the festival team for an incredible week of beautiful theatrical experiences.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/64681482_2323366581268671_721216968543174656_n-300x200.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">With help of<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-476 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/jfe_wannsee-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" data-id=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmino.org\/en\/shows\/\"><strong>back to shows<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DREAMS DIE HARD When Olive, my Grandmother died in 1998, I came across a diary she had written between 1945-46. What she wrote inside exploded everything we thought we knew about how my Father came into the world. 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