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20th - 29th October 2017 | Maribor, Slovenia

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Gregor Strniša

Cannibals

Drama of the SNT Maribor

Première 12 May 2017, Slovene National Theatre Maribor
Running time 2 hours 40 minutes. One interval.

Director Ivica Buljan
Dramaturg Diana Koloini
Set designer Aleksandar Denić
Costume designer Ana Savić Gecan
Composer Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
Choreographer Tanja Zgonc
Language consultant Metka Damjan
Video designer Toni Soprano
Lighting designer sonda4
Assistant director Robert Waltl
Assistant set designer Danilo Mlađenović

Cast
Death, Tenente Jurij Drevenšek
Prior Peter Boštjančič
Komtur Miloš Battelino
Peter Pajot Vladimir Vlaškalić
Florijan Falac Alojz Svete
Matilda Ksenija Mišič
Marta Mateja Pucko
Marija Nika Rozman
Majdalenka Ana Urbanc
Jack of Hearts Viktor Meglič
Queen of Clubs Irena Varga
Ace of Spades Kristijan Ostanek
Thicket Woman Mirjana Šajinović
Unknown Eva Kraš
Major Matevž Biber

At the end of World War II, a cannibal family of Slovenian refugees, dwelling in the interior of a German Church of the Teutonic Order, keeps itself alive by eating and selling human flesh, in order to escape death by famine. The only one who survives the war is the family father Pajot, who has made a fortune by slaughtering. The end of the war finds him as a successful entrepreneur who will enter the new age with ease, riding on the back of the capital accumulated during the war. Strniša’s cannibals are neither bestial nor animalistic. They are merely people with a certain inclination towards comfort that doesn’t require enjoying human flesh only when there is no other food, but evidently at other times as well. If we look for a common denominator, then it is consumers with the same needs. Strniša confirmed the presumption that the parable about a Slovenian family that fights for survival during World War II with its own might doesn’t speak of a particular epoch. Rather, it speaks of a disposition that mostly uses extraordinary circumstances as an excuse. A play that concludes that cannibalism is the logic of our world.

The director intelligently abridges the dichotomy between the "real" and the "virtual". The final outcome is a specifically grotesque mystery in cabaret disguise that smoothly manages not only to cross the border between the tragic and the comical, but even to erase it.

Peter Rak, Delo, 18 May 2017

Cannibals <em>Photo: Damjan Švarc</em>
Photo: Damjan Švarc
Cannibals <em>Photo: Damjan Švarc</em>
Photo: Damjan Švarc
Cannibals <em>Photo: Damjan Švarc</em>
Photo: Damjan Švarc
Cannibals <em>Photo: Damjan Švarc</em>
Photo: Damjan Švarc

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