The Wall, The Lake

Première 7 October 2017, Main Stage SNT Drama Ljubljana
Running time 1 hour 15 minutes. No interval.

Director Miloš Lolić

Dramaturg Darja Dominkuš
Set designer Jasmina Holbus
Costume designer Sara Smrajc Žnidarčič
Language consultant Tatjana Stanič
Lighting designer Aleš Vrhovec

Cast
Lidija Polona Juh
Schoolmate Saša Mihelčič
Rudi Branko Šturbej
Doctor Saša Tabaković

First staged at the Drama in 1989, this "full-length one-act play" is an extraordinary and powerful text, bordering on various genres and drawing the viewers irresistibly into its world of secrets. The play is set in a living room, partitioned by a wall that Rudi and Lidija, a married couple, erected a long time ago. When people come to visit them separately, they both tell their own story of dramatic and fateful events that occurred fourteen years ago and irrevocably changed their lives forever. It was fourteen years ago when the next door villa, inhabited by a bohemian painter and his family, sporting a rather unconventional idea of free love and open marriage, burnt down. The events of the inauspicious night have never been fully explained, so the fire has been associated with crime, even infanticide, ever since. The couple who were just passive witnesses to the dramatic events in the neighbourhood, ended up in a maelstrom of passion, jealousy, resentment and new discoveries that brought upon them a peculiar sort of madness. Rudi and Lidija interpret the events of the past "differently", which gives rise to the absurdity of their dissimilar views while the viewers follow their conflicting, and yet parallel, narratives from a dual point-of-view.

Post-performance talk with the artists in the Mezzanine.