Jubilee
Devised performance / The Affluent Drag Ensemble collective with co-workers
Citizens Dragana and Dragica traveled in 2020. Through the cycling protests, through the points of establishing a new statehood, through the key symbols of Sloveneness. Dressed in national costumes singing those old, good, popular tunes. He who sings does not think badly. The longer they walked, the more they wished they were not so much a citizen, but rather a resident. Now they have arrived at the theatre. It’s time for the Jubilee.
What builds and what disintegrates a nation? Who are we and where are we going? What is our identity and how do we transcend it? Is that even possible? Desired? Urgent? In this process, how do we build a relationship with ourselves, with each other and with everything that defines us? How to get rid of the weight of symbols? Is it possible to wash away the sins of the state through symbolic decomposition? What is our alternative? Where do we find freedom? What lies beyond nation, state, humanity? And where in the flood of hard populism is there room for radical tenderness as a point of ultimate resistance to all forms of oppression?
Video
Past performances
Concept, direction and scenography:
En drag ansambel (Rok Kravanja, Daniel Petković, Urban Belina and Ajda Tomazin)
Dramaturgy:
Urban Belina and Jasmina Založnik
Performers:
Rok Kravanja and Daniel Petković
Sound design:
Slaviša Stevanović (Evano)
Light design:
Grega Mohorčič
Technical direction:
Grega Mohorčič (Glej Theatre) and Andrej Firm (Moment)
Technical support:
Brina Ivanetič, Simon Bezek and Žan Rantaša
Photography:
Ajda Tomazin and Ivian Kan Mujezinović
Mask design for promotional photose:
Tina Prpar
Documentary video:
Borut Bučinel
Poster and programme booklet design:
Mina Fina and Ivian Kan Mujezinović / Grupa Ee
Editor of the programme booklet:
Tery Žeželj
Public relations:
Tjaša Pureber (Glej Theatre) and Maša Stošič (Moment)
Producers:
Anja Pirnat (Glej Theatre) and Nika Bezeljak (Moment)
Partners:
Glej Theatre and Moment in cooperation with the Odprti predali Institute
Duration:
50 minutes
Premiere:
26 April 2021, Glej Theatre, Ljubljana
Co-financed by:
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City Municipality of Ljubljana and the City Municipality of Maribor
We would like to thank:
Daja and Rado Kravanja, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Andreja Kovač
