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?

citizens
liberation
nation
oppression
radical tenderness
resistance
state
suppression

Video


Past performances

30. april 2021 / Intimate stage GT22
01. june 2021 / Glej Theatre, Ljubljana (TRIGGER 2021)
24. june 2021 / Intimni oder (Festival Crossings)
24. june 2021 / Intimni oder (Festival Crossings)
25. june 2021 / Intimni oder (Festival Crossings)
25. june 2021 / Intimni oder (Festival Crossings)
30. june 2021 / Glej Theatre, Ljubljana (Soteska Open)
01. july 2021 / Glej Theatre, Ljubljana (Soteska Open)
06. september 2021 / Intimni oder (Festival Crossings), ZIZ festival
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