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52nd Maribor Theatre Festival

20th - 29th October 2017 | Maribor, Slovenia

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Original project

Bedbug

Prešeren Theatre Kranj and Ptuj City Theatre

Schedule

28.10.2017, Saturday / 20:30 / Old Hall /

Première 18 February 2017, Prešeren Theatre Kranj
Running time 2 hours 10 minutes. No interval.

Translator Tatjana Stanič
Director Jernej Lorenci
Choreographer and assistant director Gregor Luštek
Dramaturg Matic Starina
Set designer Branko Hojnik
Costume designer Belinda Radulović
Composer Branko Rožman
Language consultant Tatjana Stanič
Lighting designer Jernej Lorenci, Branko Hojnik
Make-up designer Matej Pajtar
Assistant dramaturg Tjaša Mislej

Cast
Iztok Drabik Jug as guest • Vesna Jevnikar • Maruša Majer as guest • Darja Reichman • Blaž Setnikar • Vesna Slapar • Aljoša Ternovšek • Borut Veselko • Gregor Zorc as guest

Social order and life as such are in the process of globalisation: monoculture is the order of the day. The capitalist market systems and American pop culture are reaching the farthest corners of the world. Whatever happened with society, with humans? How did the individual, the ordinary man, manage to get by and survive in the past systems and how has the vortex of history driven us further on, until spitting us on the shores of our present-day life? And above all: how to bring the spectator closer to the powerful idea of an ironic-satirical relation towards both humans and society? We are bound to find new time-space frames for embodying reality. We have to re-actualise the present. Thus we have appropriated Mayakovsky’s Bedbug.

What was once the connective tissue for a collective and what is it today? Collective ideas and solidarity, or the imposing ideology, obedience and fear in front of authorities? We are connected through our consumer habits, pop culture and – with the rise of xenophobia and the right-wing politicians – also through the fear of the enemy, be it foreign or the other.

Let’s mock human weaknesses and the social dystopia. At the same time, let’s re-examine values, let’s search for utopia and ways of bonding.

Bedbug <em>Photo: Nada Žgank</em>
Photo: Nada Žgank
Bedbug <em>Photo: Nada Žgank</em>
Photo: Nada Žgank
Bedbug <em>Photo: Nada Žgank</em>
Photo: Nada Žgank

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