Simona Hamer
Postcards or Fear is Hollow Inside and Empty Outside
Slovenian National Theatre Drama Ljubljana
Crew
Director: Ajda Valcl
Dramaturg: Eva Kraševec
Stage designer: Jasna Vastl
Costume designer: Belinda Radulović
Composer: Polona Janežič
Choreographer: Sebastjan Starič
Language consultant: Arko
Lighting designer: Vlado Glavan
Video: Mladen Stropnik
Assistant to dramaturg (student): Varja Hrvatin
Assistant to Stage designer (student): Maruša Mali
Cast
Polona Juh
Saša Pavček
Nina Valič
Barbara Žefran
About the performance
Postcards is a journey. Literally and metaphorically speaking. A lively carousel of adventures and insights observed during a life-long wandering of a woman - Everywoman. In the centre of the text is the question of finding an alternative to today’s mad rush through life in which most people mechanically take the same route between their home and a workplace, with occasional Sunday trips to a nearby hill. The average Westerner suffocates under the weight of shopping shelves, and laments the tininess of his wallet. Totally stressed-out because of his to-do-list, he deletes those lists that begin with I would like to. He looks over his neighbour’s fence with a growing fear and anxiety. With weapons in hand; just in case. The search for other, untrodden paths that are not littered by the debris of our civilisation seems almost a necessity and exoticism. Those few who walk these paths are admired and also despised. In Postcards, the exploration and articulation of the world through a woman’s perspective comes to life in fragmentary dramaturgy, in a literary and genre-manoeuvring manner, and in correspondence with the story-telling tradition. Each station represents a new challenge, and each junction brings a new decision: which path to choose?
Première: 12 April 2017
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