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Sat, 25. february at 17.00

Mark Ravenhill

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Vito Taufer

 

Tue, 28. february at 19.30

Re-/de-/konstrukcija

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Borut Šeparović

 

Wed, 29. february at 19.00

Ivan Cankar

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Vito Taufer

 





 


On December, 8th, a re-/de-/construction of the anthological performance Class Enemy directed by Vito Taufer; first performed at the Mladinsko in 1982 based on the play by Nigel Williams will take place.

The Croatian director Borut Šeparović, the founder and artistic director of the theatre group Montažstroj from Zagreb, will direct in Slovenia for the first time and together with his colleagues – among whom will be dramaturg Tomaž Toporišič, and also actors Marko Mlačnik and Željko Hrs, who were a part of the cast in Vito Taufer’s performance thirty years ago –will pose the the question in what circumstances and with what potential effects and long-term consequences violence can be a generator of structural change in a society ... The starting point for his re-/de-construction will be the video recording of the 1982 performance.


Our new season is our response to the world in which we live. Several performances in the coming season will deal with the (im)possibility of the revolution, with violence, terrorism, social transformation, media lynching, social marginalisation: Class Enemy (directed by Borut Šeparović), Koltès’s Nickel Stuff (directed by Ivica Buljan), Böll’s The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (directed by Matjaž Pograjc), Büchner’s Danton’s Death (directed by Jernej Lorenci). Acting as a philosophical bridge of some sort between the two seasons is the baptismal performance of A Tower by Ivo Svetina (directed by Silvan Omerzu), a drama about the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, whose time was the time of the French revolution’s defeat. Younger audiences will enjoy Oscar Wilde’s tale The Fisherman and His Soul (directed by Ivan Peternelj).


On November, 19th we celebrated a world premiere of one of the most controversial screenplays, Nickel Stuff, written by a contemporary classic dramatist Bernard-Marie Koltès and directed by the leading Croatian director Ivica Buljan,


In a London bar called Nickel, which is mostly used for dancing and where the majority of patrons are black, “dance duels” take place, similar to those from Saturday Night Fever (1977) which prompted Koltès to write, with the inspiration for the main character Tony Allen being John Travolta. The dance floor becomes a “battlefield” for the groups ...

The performance examines the social exclusion of minorities regarding their ethnic origin, political persuasion, social status, and sexual orientation.
 

A new premiere

On December, 8th we   premiered with a big success the re-/de-/construction of one of the most powerfull political performances of the 1980's Vito Taufer's Class Enemy (1982) directed by the leading Croatian director Borut Šeparović.



Bernard-Marie Koltès
Nickel Stuff

Directed by Ivica Buljan
Skladba meseca
Janja Majzelj / Svetlana Makarovič
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