Urban Kmet: B-SIDE

Source: Luigi Serafinij, Codex Seraphinianus

B-side is a blow of a hand on a dusty table, allowing tiny fragments of dust to form different bonds and constellations before they lull back onto the table. (more…)

Beton Ltd.: EVERYTHING WE’VE LOST WHILE WE’VE GONE ON LIVING

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

22nd January at 8.00 p.m., 23rd January at 11.00 a.m. and at 8.00 p.m., Anton Podbevšek Theatre, Novo mesto
3rd, 4th and 5th February at 8.00 p.m, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

The performance emanates from the absurd as developed by Eugene Ionesco, in his work The Killer, whereas the performers guide us through three different periods in time: the years of their birth (1976 and 1977), the coming of age period that comes to a closure with a rite of passage (1995 /1996) and the present time.

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Beton Ltd.: I SAY WHAT I AM TOLD TO SAY

Photo: Borut Peterlin

Primož Bezjak, Daša Doberšek, Branko Jordan and Katarina Stegnar, united in the collective Beton Ltd., are tackling the interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s work in an original and innovative way.
»Repeating and creating Beckett here and now, in the time and space of stifling capitalism, is more than welcome, especially by way of collective creative input as is presented by Beton Ltd. From the edge of its own production this performance is telling us that the emancipatory art has said what it has to say and wants to go on speaking.« (Nenad Jelesijević, Radio Študent, 9. 10. 2012) (more…)

Peter Handke: STORM STILL

Photo: Peter Uhan

Just like in a dream consisting of multiple episodes, Handke reconstructs the history of his Slovenian family in Podjuna. The intimate saga takes us back in the time before the World War II, amidst the Partisan fight that had brought a cleavage in his mother’s family between two opposite sides, as contempt of the new Austria towards the Slovenian minority had rapidly come to replace the brutality of Nazism after the war. The text intertwining dramatics with prose and intimate poetics with historical facts was inspired by personal notes together with letters, photographs and documents, found after the death of family members. (more…)

Mare Bulc + performers: ALL TOGETHER NOW!

Photo: Nada Žgank

The music-theatre project is »theatricalizing« the musical to dissect the migration and the impossibility of migration, the leaving and staying, the reasons why to persist and why to leave. (more…)

Jelena Rusjan, Kristina Gorovska, Tina Perić + Neja Tomšič: ŠKRIP INC.

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

Škrip Inc. is a theatre-musical staging that calls into question the consumerist society and manipulation of the masses by the market in a unique manner, »it is some sort of a brainwash that doesn’t leave any time to the audience to think about what it is watching. (more…)

19th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women

This year’s festival Let’s Create a Place for Ourselves will highlight the importance of claiming a space and the relevance of efforts invested in recognizing the situation of women within spaces, which seem to be closing down all too often in this time of neoliberal reforms and in the crossing of various discriminative attitudes. (more…)

Betontanc & Umka.LV at the festival Theatre Confrontations

Betontanc & Umka.LV will perform Show Your Face! on 17th October at the 18th International Festival of Theatre Confrontations, which will take place from 12th to 19th October in Lublin. Show Your Face! is a virtuosic performance of puppetry, theatre, dance, and live music that examines the effects of courage (or lack thereof) throughout the 20th century.

SPARKS: Jan Rozman: Bird Dementia

Photo: Marijo Župan

Dementia is a state of oblivion. A state of madness. A state of lunacy. Dementia isn’t something you get to choose. She chooses you. Everything that had solid form before has now changed. It has become forgotten without knowing what it was and without anticipating what it will become. And it is changing in this very moment. Forgetting. (more…)

SPARKS: Alen Prošić: Antichrist

Photo: Sunčan Stone

Four years after Lars von Trier’s controversial film Antichrist, a theatre staging inspired by the film will be presented by hybridTheatre. This is yet another step of hybridTheatre in the direction of melting the old and the new forms of art into a format that is believed to be the foundation of contemporary theatre in the next 10 years to come. (more…)