Powerlessness

Premières 3 and 4 December 2016, Mini Theatre Ljubljana
Running time 1 hour 10 minutes. No interval.

Director and author of dramatisation Primož Ekart
Dramaturg Simona Hamer
Language consultant Maja Cerar
Set designer Damir Leventić
Costume designer Belinda Radulović
Lighting designer Andrej Hajdinjak
Music selection Darja Hlavka Godina
Assistant director Katarina Krapež
Assistant dramaturg Helena Fašalek

Cast
Nik Škrlec

When Heinrich Böll, then the Nobel Laureate to be, published The Clown in 1963 the shameless point of Hansa Schnier’s confrontation stirred up much noise; the artistic mirror that was held in front of the German economic, political and religious elite, reflected the hands –  tainted with the blood of World War II – that wouldn’t stop grabbing. The same mechanism is explained also by Janis Varufakis, Greek economist and intellectual, in the bestseller The Global Minotaur (America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy) published in 2011. In his critical analysis of the recent financial events he establishes why the world has found itself in the middle of chronic insecurity and a permanent crisis.

The performance Powerlessness stems from the intersection of both: powerlessness as a fundamental feeling of each individual that is trying to keep his head above all the economic, political and personal crises. If The Clown is about the intimate powerlessness of the main character, Varufakis bolsters this feeling and spreads it to the sphere of society that doesn’t know how to and can’t find an appropriate answer to the break of the economic paradigms and is thus experiencing global powerlessness.