Read by the students of the third year of the undergraduate Acting program at the Academy of Arts in Split.
Mentors: Prof. Art. Bruna Bebić and Davor Pavić, Art Assistant
Students: Paula Japunčić, Marijan Kukulj, Jakov Kulić, Tara Kuster, Deni Mašić, Ira Osibov, Lucija Škarica, Karla Šola

The drama "Other's Warmth" by Espi Tomičić is a chamber, poetic drama for three characters that meticulously and almost surgically dissects the beginning, duration, and end of the love relationship between Him and Her. Amidst the frontal and inevitable clash with Her terminal illness, He, She, and the One who is - as His alter ego, internal moral compass, embodied consciousness, and conscience, the unadulterated and hidden "I" - peel away layers of superfluous and insignificant elements from scene to scene, leading from the smooth surface of illusion to the wide-open abysses of the most intimate thoughts, desires, feelings, fears, and expectations of life, society, family, partners, relationships, or even oneself. In an honest and ruthlessly revealing confession of dramatic characters, through mostly monologue-based segments and occasional brief dialogic excursions, three carefully crafted dramatic sections (Creation, Loss, and Disappearance) traverse the journey from the establishment and maturation of the love relationship between two people, through the vivisection of how illness and facing the possibility of losing a loved one destroy not only the couple but also every individual within it, until the moment when both partners come to accept and reconcile with each other's and their death. By alluding to (im)possible spaces of escape from the sorrow of their own lives and exposing personal fears and weaknesses, courage and sacrifice, cowardice and betrayal, as well as feelings of guilt for what has been done and left undone, "Other's Warmth" ultimately conveys to the dramatic voice ("You within me") as much as to the reader/viewer themselves ("Me, within you") that a human being should not allow the fear of death and loss to paralyze, emaciate, or deprive them of feelings of closeness, love, surrender, and living in the present moment and connection with another being, no matter how much or how little time remains until the last breath. In doing so, they are read and understood - breathlessly and in one breath.