Performances

Good Company
Miha Bezeljak loves art. His devised solo performance premieres on March 22nd.
StudenTheatre: Radio Ratatata
Radio Ratatata is the story of the eponymous radio station trapped in a timeless world where all that matters is to be on air.
ŠtudenTeater
StudenTheatre
StudenTheatre: We know the beginning, we know the ending, but the middle is unknown
Three individuals, three different faces of war, three (un)connected stories, shared memories of childhood.
ŠtudenTeater
StudenTheatre: About war, during war, with war
The show is about war. Nothing is left unsaid. All the faces of the complex subject are brought to life on stage, painting a comprehensive portrait of millennia of human thinking about history's darkest times.
ŠtudenTeater
StudenTheatre
war
Memoria
MEMORIA is a performance about memory and its loss. Mala used the visionary paintings of Marko Jakše, one of the most acclaimed Slovene painters, as source material to write a letter to the future us about where we are coming from.
Hero 4.0 – Business as Usual
The two heroes are once again facing the battle of their lives. They joined forces and put aside the fights between them.
content
hero
minljivost
time
SHOUT: A void
The performance is a generational gesture to address the void in communication, to expose the silenced empty spaces on the topic of sexuality and sexual abuse.
Entropy
an experimental contemporary flamenco dance
contemporary dance
flamenco
So to speak: Amateur
Takorekoč (So to speak) - the cycle of theatre essays, season two.
essay
essay staging
performing
philosophy
text
So to speak: Noli me tangere
Takorekoč (So to speak) - the cycle of theatre essays, season two.
essay staging
performing
philosophy
text
So to speak: Knittings + Amateur
Takorekoč (So to speak) - the cycle of theatre essays, season two.
essay
essay staging
performing
philosophy
text
Blood Stories/Krvne zgodbe
Blood Stories with Miranda Trnjanin and Pedro Moldão about origins and relations.
blood
dna
family tree
origin
Grannies
A documentary performance where tissues are a must-have accessory
BetON7
A performance that breaks concrete through music
Circle
Documentary installation with narration
Escape
Acrobatic burlesque for the whole family (4+)
Quizoola!
Extraordinary improvised performance in which the performers continually ask and answer questions. In cooperation with Maribor Theatre Festival.
Panflutes and Paperwork
A dance and musical performance, a wildly inspiring chatter of movement and sound
Real Magic
A stunning manifestation of relentless resurrection, joyful despair and foolish hope. In cooperation with Maribor Theatre Festival.
The End
Two non-professional dancers in their last dance - a witty and moving coquetry with the personal and the global ending.
StudenTheatre: 5 – 4 = 2
This season of StudenTheatre represents: 5-4=2.
ŠtudenTeater
StudenTheatre
StudenTheatre: Night of the long knives
We still miss Tito very much, but could a certain man from Grosuplje become our next great leader?
boj za oblast
community
nostalgia
power struggle
ŠtudenTeater
StudenTheatre: Congress of witches
When a victim speaks up, they are sent to the stakes. And then the witches start dancing.
justice
rape
relations
ŠtudenTeater
Slava Klavora – The Monument
With the outbreak of the war, they were the only ones to continue their activities underground. They did not surrender and recognise the Nazi occupation. The struggle began. The revolution had begun.
antifascism
Maribor
resistance
Slava Klavora
Via Mama
„Great art inevitably co-creates space for its own parody.” Mare Bulc (from the text of the never performed play by Via Negativa)
author
ego
recycle
socialisation
solo
stand up
StudenTheatre: Potica without raisins
The search for Slovenia's personality in the European perspective and many other questions that will create our potica, which is absolutely and relatively raisin-free.
Europe
Evropa
identity
ŠtudenTeater
tradition
Is it over?
We have created the last safe space on the planet to protect you from the horrors of the outside world. Coproduction with Maribor Puppet Theatre.
apocalypse
apocalypse
end
end
shelter
technology
technology
Apophenia/1
Apophenia processes everything that is intangible, inarticulate, elusive.
AI
liveliness
technology
technology
SYMPÓSION
Our work, starting from the “Speech of Aristophanes” contained in Plato’s Symposium, is a journey within the couple relationship and within ourselves and our awareness, aimed at the conscious search for our identity.
AI
liveliness
technology
technology
Under control
Luka works out every day, answers emails on time, showers every day with cold water, eats healthy, separates waste, cleans, cooks, in short, does everything he can to keep things from spiralling out of control.
control
kontrola
ping pong
sheepdog
solo
Deep Purple
Deep Purple is a wasteland of ambition filled with the potential to experience beauty.
beauty
crisis
deep purple
doomerism
Via Mama
„Great art inevitably co-creates space for its own parody.” Mare Bulc (from the text of the never performed play by Via Negativa)
ego
mare bulc
socialization
stand up
Slava Klavora – The Monument
The central platform of the performance is the communist movement in Maribor, where the audience comes into contact with Maribor activists, later national heroes/heroines. The revolution bears their names.
activism
Maribor
Partisan
resistance
revolution
Slava Klavora
youth
Is it over?
All good things come to an end. Join us at the last safe space on earth, a moment before (or after?) it all ends. In co-production with Maribor Puppet Theatre.
apocalypse
end
safety
technology
Technoburlesque: Image snatchers
Technoburlesque is a mute comedy of the body that mocks rigidity of social roles. It uncritically appropriates, copies and glues together femininity, masculinity, family relationships, machismo and other degenerated social roles that are unrighteous considered to be normative.
body
burlesque
movement
Sympósion
Performance, starting from the “Speech of Aristophanes” contained in Plato’s Symposium, is a journey within the couple relationship and within ourselves and our awareness, aimed at the conscious search for our identity.
awareness
body
identity
movement
relationships
Forecasting
Forecasting is based on a collection of amateur videos taken from the largest video-sharing website, YouTube. The piece delves into the process of watching videos by reducing it to its essential: a body and a screen.
body
movement
screen
video
Warmaker
Multidisciplinary theatre performance that blends visual art, new media with documentary and object theatre. It is based on Palestinian artist Karim Shaheen’s true story.
delusions
dream
exile
Warmaker
Godzilla Tribute Band
The Godzilla Tribute Band is a collective assembled to save the world. Because we want to. Because we have to. You will find us on the sly. In a shelter. In the underground.
changes
collectivity
godzilla
godzilla
music
patos
punk
punk
world rescue
So To Speak: Five plans for microglobalisation
The cycle of theatrical essays, So To Speak, brings original texts performed by their authors
essay
essay staging
performing
philosophy
text
So To Speak: Harmful/-less patriotism
The cycle of theatrical essays, So To Speak, brings original texts performed by their authors
essay
essay staging
performing
philosophy
text
So To Speak: Draft
The cycle of theatrical essays, So To Speak, brings original texts performed by their authors
essay
essay staging
performing
philosophy
text
MiniStage: Home Sweet Home
A table puppet performance about home and moving, that offers a stage intertwinement of an evergreen toy - wooden blocks - and modern projection technology.
for children
friendship
home
mapping
moving
music
owl
puppets
toys
Crossing
How is it there? There ... on the other side of the line drawn by reason and imagination. How does one behave there?
contradictions
discovering the world
doll
imagination
the other side
Path
Two drama students, two solo performances. In the joint project Path, these two parts merge and refine each other.
butoh method
dance
Gesamtkunstwerk
Japan
movement
Holidays?
Holidays, an annual goal, a piece of carefree time when we can dedicate ourselves and our loved ones
break
coexistence
family
holidays
relations
EDdA2
At first, there was nothing. Then it exploded. The Sun came into being. It wanted company, so it invented planets. On one of these planets, life was born.
bang
evolution
life
nothingness
planets
the Sun
The Traveler
What to do with the different? What to do with those who think differently? What to do with those who we resent?
associations
differences
exploitation
human rights
violence
Duality
The greatest drawback of love is that it needs a duality.
life style
love
personal contact
physicality
routine
Technology of Love
On stage, the story of a robot that returns to life unfolds in magic.
closeness
crossing the lines
electricity
life
magic
robot
Four
We follow the journey of a fairy-tale creature born in the real world.
adventure
magical
miniature show
object theatre
puppets
Mirka, Živka and Dadakice
Mirka, Živko and Dadakice is a story about George and Emil watching ducks
ducks
elitism
movement
snobbery
sound
Yugoslavia
An Action Without Words
The play depicts the struggle of an individual trapped in an environment without basic necessities.
creator
desert
disappointment
invisible cage
nature
Making Medea
The starting point of the play is Heiner Müller's text The Devastated Coast / Medea material / Landscape with Argonauts.
Heiner Müller
identity
poetics
where are we going
where did we get to
World
World is a puppet performance. It’s a performance born for the street or better yet, for a backyard overlooking that same street.
miniature show
puppets
I Don’t Judge
He doesn't know where he belongs, to whom he belongs. He adapts to others and especially to himself.
adaptation
changing the world
experience
Baba babi babo
The glorification of a woman gets on my nerves. Because it’s always in a relation to a man. Like some kind of competition. Where someone has to win.
black and white
gender relations
race
victory
House number 6
Puppet miniature talks about sadness and joy, old and new, children and adults, and everything in between.
joy and sorrow
miniature show
old and new
puppets
white kitty
Me, the Legend
At first, there was nothing. But right there, almost indefinitely years ago, something was resting.
creation of the world
human
special event
Always the Same Story
In the project, which is set as a personal confession of a man, animation, acting, movement and subtle atmosphere are intertwined.
existence
opposite sex
personal confession
relations
Rob
The experimentally designed miniature combines two seemingly incompatible techniques on stage - puppets and film.
animation
camera
figurines
miniature show
puppets and film
Why I Do(n’t) Have Children
What does a woman gain and what does she lose if she becomes a mother? For what reasons does a woman not become a mother?
children
doubts
education
motherhood
prejudice
Behind the Four Walls 014
The relationship between the personal and the public is elusive. How far into the personal space do we let the other person go?
four walls
personal and public
personal space
secrets
Happiness Hunters
What is happiness? Where can I find it? Who will I look for it with? What am I afraid of? What am I ashamed of? What's getting on my nerves? What makes me happy?
fear
friendship
reflection
self-study
the pursuit of happiness
Fruit Stories
A puppet show without puppets, but with a full box of fruit and vegetables.
fruit
humor
puppets
puppets without puppets
vegetables
A Story about a Boy and a Penguin
A show for the youngest that talks about friendship, loneliness and mutual understanding.
adventure
friendship
journey
tolerance
trust
Behind the four walls
The show takes place in the real environment of a house on the outskirts of Maribor, where spectators witness the simultaneous course of events around the venue.
house
intimacy
relations
secrets
simultaneous scenes
Eye-Net: 108,1 MHz
Frame: Radio broadcast. Content: sharp. Defining. Stories: true. Some. Other possible.
antifascism
eye.net
fascism
media
radio
StudenTheatre
Sorry
In a time of brutal celebration of power, in a time of loans, debts, frauds, subordination, manipulation and mutual dependency, it’s hard to detect a parasite.
interdependence
Michel Serres
natural relationship
parasite
performance
Hundred Toasts
Hundred Toasts is a celebration of the achievements, excesses, and fatal mistakes of a personality that have had a decisive impact on our past and our present.
cultural achievements
cultural holiday
fatal errors
performance
toast
Plastic Heroes
Plastic Heroes is a hit show by Ariel Doron, that follows a turn in which violence, sex, hatred, lust and fear turn from innocent childish play into a bloody reality.
Ariel Doron
object theatre
play
reality
video
Shakuntala 117 – Remembrance of Love
The performance is a hybrid of Kalidas’s Shakuntala, Camilla’s and Augustine’s relationship, and our personal experiences of love and abandonment.
Camille Claudel
feeling
love
Mahabharata
sculptures
Image Snatchers present: Matilda and Her Buns
Matilda is a woman, at least usually she looks like one. She is not an artist but she finds inspiration in ordinary things. Stage is her home.
daydreaming
disco
freedom
Image Snatchers
tehnoburlesque
Sonny
Sonny is an attempt at an anthropological research of a specific phenomenon of sworn virgins or “virginas in a performative form.
anthropology
City of Women
drag
performance
sworn virgins
Satyriconiade
The Satyriconiade is a kind of an initiation carnival, a celebration for the not so ingenious, a party for the less popular.
AGRFT
ancient proto-novel
celebration
Encolpius
Petronium
Satyricon
Objectification
Objectification is a visceral response to the world of things in which we live.
animate and inanimate
coexistence
ooo
speculative realism
All that is the Case
Beautiful women in old pajamas tell their dreams. You can listen to them for hours, but also go to the bar or smoke a cigarette.
contemplation
delusions
dream
Forced Entertainment
Theater im Bahnhof
A Potential Performance
A Potential Performance is a description of a performance that never occurs.
improvisation
interactive performance
prejudice
social roles
Abonma Unfolding
ABONMA is a project which, by developing a specific staging language, deconstructs and reconstructs existing performances.
Abonnement project
deconstruction
reconstruction
reflection
StudenTeatre: Nothing new
We can say with certainty that Caligula is found in each of us.
Albert Camus
Caligula
coexistence
disappearance
StudenTheatre
Stardust
Devised project about a mobster and the father of a surprisingly ordinary girl from Portugal.
family stories
mafia
original project
Switzerland
Oh my, Kekec, Storm is Coming!
The performance is an adaptation of Kekec’s first adventure, which Josip Vandot described in the book Kekec on the Hard Path.
for children
Jerica
Kekec
Kekec on the Hard Path
puppets
The Master and Margarita: Session Bulgakov
A play brimming with dramatic expression, poetic impression, playfulness and flirtatiousness with the ironic criticism of the world.
Bulgakov
Matija Solce
object theatre
The Master and Margarita
Born To Please / On Entertainment Trilogy
What should performers do to satisfy the audience?
audience
concert
De Facto
karaoke
performer
Folk/Acts / On Entertainment Trilogy
Why is it easier for bar singers to perform than for actresses?
actress
bar
De Facto
singer
A Good Life / On Entertainment Trilogy
How to tell the Game of Thrones with a lighter and hairspray?
De Facto
Game of Thrones
lighter
Alzhabet
Children's puppet show from A to Z, a mixture of noises, sounds and voices.
alphabet
for children
letters
music
poetry
song
The Goat Verdict
The play is based on the story of Josip Jurčič and deals with the stereotypical quarrel between Slovenes in neighborly relations.
court
dispute
for children
guilt
justice
neighbour relationships
RESET! Sooner or later …
A story of dystopian migration in the future. Are you ready? Sooner or later… it can happen to us too.
dystopia
eye.net
future
migrations
refugees
Around a Clock
Around a Clock is a performance which takes about an hour and which takes place around a clock.
clock
for children
music
puppets
sound
without words
6
How will we prevent that? Prevent what? Prevent the arrival of underage asylum seekers to the dormitory or prevent the resistance from the students’ parents?  
asylum seekers
Grand Prix
prejudice
refugees
xenophobia
Muyte Maker
Muyte Maker celebrates disobedient and irrational bodies.
disobedience
joy
movement
mythology
women
StudenTheatre: Yugo will blow
Seven young people intertwine the memories of their parents, grandparents, literature and pop culture with their contemporaries.
naivety
Pioneers
StudenTheatre
yugonostalgia
Yugoslavia
StudenTheatre: So, Is the Performance On?
Let the puppet masters pull our strings. Let them put up a performance. A performance? What does this mean?
(anti)democracy
capitalism
euroscepticism
StudenTheatre
Gilgrieving
Gilgrieving is an event; it is a mourning ritual; ritual lamentation and grieving for Gilgamesh’s heroic masks.
death
Epic of Gilgamesh
performance
ritual
superhero
Stranger Than Paradise
Stranger than paradise in Glej theatre is a documentary performance, something between a concert, a travelogue and a gathering of friends.
concert
nostalgia
the elderly
travelogue
Yugoslavia
The String That Saved the World
The play The String That Saved the World, based on rich Inuit mythology, revives the traditional way of telling stories with a string.
for children
Inuit
mythology
storytelling
strings
Brina
The performance tackles the emancipatory moment of Slovenian contemporary dance during the WW2 period, showcasing dancer Marta Paulin - Brina.
Brina
contemporary dance
dancer
emancipation
Partisan
war
*oly *ary
"I admit that I'm still not *exually satisfied. I *egret it. I deeply *egret it.
(dis)satisfaction
erotica
religion
sexuality
wish
Heart
Heart. Muscle. Pump. Organ. Symbol. Metaphor. Dog food. A performance that stretches and contracts.
heart
Kristina Aleksova
muscle
performance
symbol
We are here to stay
The performance deploys an archive of personal objects from everyday life and creates intimate environments of personal monuments.
bright future
exhibition
good old days
nostalgia
utopia
Image Snatchers present: The lives and deaths of HPD
HPD is reaching forty. Midlife crisis is on the horizon.
Image Snatchers
Loup Abramovici
midlife crisis
tehnoburlesque
Amaranth
Even if you disappear and time swallows you up in its spaceless reality, the cycle of life will go on without stopping, but it will not remain untouched.
dance
life
life cycle
meaning
movement
time
GULIVER 2 – On the Island of Giants
Mini cabaret of extreme marionettes.
cabaret
exotic
giants
Gulliver
satire
StudenTheatre: Homo Absurdus
What is life like in the modern world? How do we find ourselves in it?
absurd
anxiety
eccentricity
humor
StudenTheatre
world
Free Standing
Who am I in a relationship with, whether I want it or not? Who am I involved with, whether I’m aware of it or not?
dance
independence
interdependence
movement
relations
StudenTheatre: !
! is a devised performance about creativity and disagreement. And maybe even about compromises.
actor
audience
compromise
conflict
StudenTheatre
Tonight I Celebrate
Uroš Kaurin, performance concert. About the theatricality of the relationship between the performer and the audience and more
concert
performance
pop songs
singing
solo
On the Right Track
In one hour Grega and Vito “execute” their supporting vocal job professionally from beginning to end, although there is nobody left to be accompanied.
back vocalists
concert
hit songs
music
talent
Room
A subtle tale of a woman who dreams of her life, ideals and relationships in a room.
clay
friendship
hands
interpersonal relationships
love
Quartet
The Quartet performance is accompanied by the exhibition What a Fruitful Performance: Museum of Our Loves and the workshop How to Tackle this Machine?
AGRFT
exhibition
Heiner Müller
production
workshop
Potential States
The performance shows a transnational european performance in the making.
actress
director
Kurdistan
work of art
writer
Yugoslavia
Hero 1.0
In a country without hope, two heroes rose up. They are young, brave and fearless.
hero on call
Hero project
Uroš Kaurin
Vito Weis
Vito Weis
Imagine-toi/Imagine
A modern clown performance about a hero’s unimagined worlds of epic proportions
clown
Crossings Festival
new circus
without words
Juggling Concert
Juggling isn’t a concert and a concert can’t be juggling. Unless …
concert
Crossings Festival
juggling
new circus
street theatre
Mali pok – impro performance
Cross to the dark side of improv
Crossings Festival
improvisational theatre
Mi gran obra/My Great Work
Mini puppet show that wants to be the biggest there is
Crossings Festival
miniature show
puppets
utopia
without words
Opium Clippers
Tea for Five: Opium Clippers is a visual essay merging hand painted ceramics and a tea ritual.
China
Crossings Festival
opium
ships
tea
visual essay
So To Speak: Kaiser’s axe or where to put arguments
The cycle of theatrical essays, So To Speak, brings original texts performed by their authors
essay
essay staging
performing
philosophy
text
So To Speak: Only the paranoid survive
The cycle of theatrical essays, So To Speak, brings original texts performed by their authors
essay
essay staging
performing
philosophy
text
So To Speak: Virus
The cycle of theatrical essays, So To Speak, brings original texts performed by their authors.
essay
essay staging
performing
philosophy
text
The Exciting Life of Bees
Do we know how bees live? How big can a bee family be? Who are the members of the bee family? How do bees spend their time?
beekeeping
bees
community
family
for children
honey
life
nature
Eye-Net: Some Like it Fake
When does news become fake? Who even wants them? Why is there no market for fake news about fruit and vegetables?
eye.net
fake news
fake news
information
information age
opression
Under Construction
Baker, psychic, plumber, mayor, bell-ringer. Invisible and overlooked. They have gathered to judge the history that has broken their dreams, desires, passions.
community
destruction
history
počemučka
spontaneity
strength
Being Don Quichotte
In an autobiographical tragicomedy, set on an inventive interpretation of the Don Quichotte archetype, the actors struggle with an understanding of madness and normality, art and society, idealism and reality.
cervantes
Don Quichotte
madness
normality
puppetry
tragicomedy
NOise Circus
NOise Cirkus je sodobna glasbeno-cirkuška improvizirana predstava, ki uporablja lastnosti in filozofijo »noise« glasbe in jih prevaja v odrski in cirkuški jezik.
circus
cirkus
concert
improvisation
jugglers
mismonismo
noise
žonglerji
Indefinite Frequency
A dynamic dance concert where three dancers and four percussionists take us on a journey through ever-changing constellations of movement qualities and states.
dance
dance concert
impalpable
movement
music
pan-adria
percussions
Together
Dance performance for six dancers, which, cultivating an abstract mode of work, has fun producing moving images.
dance performance
pan-adria
there is no one else
together
A Little Owl Sitting on a Branch
Children's cabaret in the company of naughty, greedy, spoiled, lying and in love animals.
animals
cabaret
for children
music
puppets
Bad company
Pure distillate of the zeitgeists by Vito Weis.
alone
company
creator
Vito Weis
without words
zeitgeist
Victoria 2.0
Winners are confident. Winners are passionate. Winners appreciate themselves. Winners know what they want and how to achieve it. Winners win.
perfect look
self-esteem
to be a winner
to be accepted
B O O M !
My name is Robert Oppenheimer. I am so famous that I barely need a name. I am Death and the Destroyer of Worlds. I am its saviour. I am the father of the atomic bomb.
ethics
moral dilemma
physics
science
social responsibility
StudenTheatre: The more there is of us, the sooner this game ends?
A real situation in which four individuals find themselves. How can they support each other if they are different?
changes
cooperation
diversity
relations
StudenTheatre
Long live the vulva!
Long Live the Vulva! speaks mischievously and humorously about extremely serious and important topics.
feminism
history
sexuality
vagina
vulva
How Did We Get Here?
Narrative epopee by Matej Recer in Gregor Zorc.
family stories
history
life
storytelling
war
Jubilee
Radically tender ceremony.
citizens
liberation
nation
oppression
radical tenderness
resistance
state
suppression
Palmyra
Predstava občinstvo povabi k odmiku od populističnih novic in nudi razmslek o Siriji, civilizaciji in razpadu odnosov.
barbarism
Crossings Festival
psychology
relations
revenge
Syria
Hero 3.0 – More Than Words
Who and what become the Heroes, when they drive themselves beyond words?
dance
friendship
Hero project
relations
unspeakable
without words
Hero 2.0 – The Show of All Shows
Only victory matters. History remembers only those who are on top. Others are merely extras.
competitiveness
Hero project
humor
metatheatre
stage
two actors
Via Matti/Street of Fools
The performance is a walk through the storm of the protagonist’s synaptic connections, while at the same time addressing all of our bigotries and intolerances.
humor
irritability
madness
prosciutto
styrian yoga
teran