Based on Howard Barker’s plays The Love of a Good Man, The Europeans, Ursula and The Unforeseen Cons
At Least I Do Not Have to Kiss
Production of the 7th semester students of acting and directing, UL AGRFT
Schedule
Running time 50 minutes. No interval.
Performance is in Slovenian.
Director, stage and lighting designer Dorian Šilec Petek
Dramaturg Jaka Smerkolj
Costume designer Tina Bonča
Music Laren Polič Zdravič
Cast
Lea Cok, Mario Dragojević, Urša Kavčič, Urban Kuntarič, Živa Selan, Eva Stražar, Dominik Vodopivec, Matej Zemljič
Mentors
Acting and theatre directing
Boris Ostan Prof., Jernej Lorenci Assoc. Prof.
Set design
Jasna Vastl Assoc. Prof.
Costume design
Janja Korun Prof., Tina Kolenik Assistant, MA
Language and Speech
Katarina Podbevšek Assist. Prof., Ph
The performance talks about people who cannot fully grasp the finality of death yet do not accept the traditional message about the afterlife. Believing in heaven and hell is not presented as ideology, but as an empty experimental construct, scenography, illusion. The performance thus moves away from the traditional storytelling, character presentation, realistic stage space and replaces them with emotions, moods and fragments of thought. The event grows through the ensemble and tests the thesis about the collective creative impulse.
The artistic ensemble started their creative process in the fragments from different authors (e.g., Ionesco's essays), improvisations (e.g., Punch & Judy), autobiographical tales, etc. The result is a completely authorial text, pared down to the core/essence, which supports the performers in the symbolic, emotional, visual and sound expression (more than in structure). But the performance nevertheless does not come across as a metaphor, more like a poetic image - rather than offering the spectators "reading" material, it offers a complete theatre experience.
Discussion after the performance: about the performance, the process, the school
