Art is a Cupboard

The global world is reaching the dizzying heights of human stupidity, nonsense and ethical decay. The decay of values is a given and the banality of our days has become a habit. The foundation of the contemporary world is absurd. And Harms is one of the first absurdists. The absurd in Harms’s literature speaks of an unclear and undetermined fear that threatens everyday life from the background.

The performance stems from Harms’s unpredictable world, which addresses us in a poetic language on the border between the tragic and the comic. It dives into the poetry that is at the same time a children’s play and a play of fantasy in a vertiginous world of dream images and surreal scenes, coated with unusual existential sadness.

Pure love for theatrical expression. Genuine and sincere. Poetic, comic, absurd, cosmic.

About the author:

Ivan Peternelj is a graduate drama actor. For many years, he worked as a freelancer, creating independent projects in the Betontanc group, the Muzeum theatre, and numerous independent productions, as well as in Ema Kugler’s video films, among others. Later, he took a permanent position at the Mladinsko Theatre. Despite this, he did not abandon his work in the non-institutional scene and continues to direct. He is the founder of the Art Association AVGUS and the recipient of numerous awards: the Ivy Crown (2018, ZDUS), the Župančič Award (2013), an award at the SKUP Festival in Ptuj (2004), the Sever Award (2003), the Borštnik Award for Best Young Actor, and the first prize at the PUF Festival in Pula (1998). In 1992, he, along with other members of the Betontanc group, received the Župančič Award.