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45th Week of Slovenian Drama

Simona Semenič

1981

AGRFT and Glej Theatre

Crew

DIRECTOR NINA RAJIĆ KRANJAC
STAGE DESIGNER LUKA KREŽE
COMPOSER LEA ČEHOVIN
COSTUME DESIGNER ANDREJ VRHOVNIK
LIGHTING DESIGNER BORUT BUČINEL

Cast

BORIS; LANKY CREATURE; CHARMING GENTLEMAN; EDO; STOCKY UNCLE; DARKO, PARAMEDIC NEJC CIJAN GARLATTI
LUKA; SREČKO; MARJAN; BALD MAN; DARKO, PARAMEDIC LOVRO FINŽGAR
NADA; VESNA, LUKA'S MUM; NANA; JAGODA LENA HRIBAR
LUKA'S MUM; NADA; OLD WOMAN PATRIZIA JURINČIČ
MARIJA; EVEN OLDER WOMAN; JAGODA; TODDLER;VESNA, LUKA'S MUM NATAŠA KESER
LANKY CREATURE; JAGODA, YOUNG SHOP ASSISTANT; MARIJA, SHOP ASSISTANT; TINY, SCRAWNY NANA ANJA NOVAK
ERIK; ZMAGO; CHARMING GENTLEMAN; PARAMEDIC NIK ŠKRLEC
NADA; TINY, SCRAWNY NANA; VESNA, LUKA'S MUM; NANA URŠKA TAUFER

About the performance

PREMIÈRE GLEJ THEATRE, 27 JANUARY 2014
THE PERFORMANCE IS 3 HOURS LONG AND HAS ONE INTERVAL

"today, as i become a pioneer,
i'm giving my pioneer word of honour
that i will follow the example of the best pioneers,
that i'll respect the glorious deeds of the partisans and the progressive people of the world who wish freedom and peace."


Born in the beginning of the 1980s, they were the last generation of pioneers. Those born before that remember to this day the pioneers’ oath and the ideals that it carried. History, though, went another way. In the story, set in a small town in the timespan of three decades, the moral emptiness of today’s consumerist world is faced with the ideologised past and poses the question whether the past was necessary and is the future really open. Where are the dinar and the para? Where are Lačni Franz, Blondie, Abba, AC/DC, Haustor? What is 2013? What are we fighting for in 2013? What are we striving for? What are we building? What do we believe in? What do we value? What are we sharing? Which world is better? The one we live it, the one we lived in or the one that’s coming?
Simona Semenič’s play was nominated for the Grum Award at last year’s Week of Slovenian Drama.
"The gap that opened between the spirit of our time, marked by calculations, materialism and corporative logic, and the past spirit of the approximate of the socialist society, is accentuated in directing by (re) mixing, cuts, and transitions – more glimpses than developed situations, more sketches than finished images. And because of this approach, we’ll remember this performance."
(Nenad Jelesijević, rtvslo.si)

Photo gallery

1981 <em>Photo: Željko Stevanić, arhiv AGRFT</em>
Photo: Željko Stevanić, arhiv AGRFT
1981 <em>Photo: Željko Stevanić, arhiv AGRFT</em>
Photo: Željko Stevanić, arhiv AGRFT

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