In Alan Bennet’s play, The History Boys, a bright history teacher remarks that ‘there is no period so remote as the recent past’. Last year saw Croatia become the 28th member state of the EU and 3 Winters deals with the country’s rich and volatile history over the last seventy years. The play is set in a single house over three distinct time periods. The first, 1945, sees Croatia becoming one of the six states of the Yugoslav People’s Republic. 1990 demonstrates the aftermath of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of Yugoslavia as Croatia and Serbia left the union. 2011 brings the action up to date and looks toward prospective EU membership.
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