SOS

 
Our new season is our response to the world in which we live. If the season 2010/2011 was mostly about the beauty and the horror of the artistic creation (Nijinsky's Last Dance, Mephisto, Diva Saint Mother Bitch), 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).

While it’s true that art cannot save the world, we, like John Ruskin, believe that it saves the one whose partner in life it is, again and again.

S(ave) O(ur) S(ouls).

Warm regards, Ursula Cetinski – Artistic and Managing Director