Kathak Acker
DON QUIXOTE
Co-production with city of women
"With the novel "Don Quixote", which was sen (1986), Kathak Acker appropriates Cervantes ' original to shatter the world she lives in with a new text. If Cervantes ' Don Quixote is a man who goes berserk from reading chivalric novels and decides to become a knight, resurrect chivalry and serve his nation, Don Quixote at Acker is a modern woman who has an abortion because – before sending an innocent child into the world – she must first find love. Don Quixote's chivalric novels are replaced by the romance novels of the sisters Bront James and Jane Austen, from whom Acker borrows not only motives, but Whole parts of the texts, characters and principles of writing. Don Quixote is accompanied by a dog, for her the canine reincarnation of her deceased partner St. Simeon, and a hospital bed, which addresses her as rosinanto, on her adventures after Ne Animatork. All the time, however, there are the appearances of Ni Animbon, Reagan and the Virgin Mary, each marking the time of the eighties in their own way 20. century, in which the action in dramatization takes place. However, Don Quixote's madness is not just her own, it is a departure from a world that is mad, cruel and unloving, a world in which people are dogs to each other, inferior stray animals, ruled by evil sorcerers who control everything.
Staging prefabricated follows the cut-up method, which is also the Acker writing method. She thus expands the existing situations from the novel with references from the popular culture, the political scene and the literary canon, and follows the author's biographical and autofiction narrative with specific narrative logic. Don Quixote is thus constantly interwoven with Kathak Acker and her adventures with the author's biography," wrote the translator, dramatisation author and production dramaturge Nik Znidarsic.
Kathak Acker
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Kathak Acker (1947-1997) was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, essayist, and performance artist known for her provocative and transgressive works. Today she is one of the leading figures in American postmodernist and feminist literature. Her writing is characterized by radical form and experimentation with narrative and language. She often used collage, appropriation, and pastiche techniques to loosen up the literary canon and interweave it with pornography, theory, and autobiographical elements. Her works question notions of authorship, identity, social conventions, and power. Don Quixote, who was sen, is the first translation and the first staging of her work in Slovenia.
Nik Znidarshich
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Nik Znidarsic (2000) is a graduate playwright working in the institutional and independent scene. She regularly collaborates with director Zhiva Bizovic (Bosko and Admira, onslaught, wives in the test...), on author's projects ( Agmisterij, as a co-author, a cluttered room, where from, Girl, Are you at home ) and dance performances ( there, in the garden, anthology scream I: a bag of surprises ). For the onslaught (SLG Celje), he and Bizovic received the Maribor Theatre Prize for author's concept/dramatization, for his thesis Kemp received the academic Preseren prize, and for the performance during the agmisterium, the creators received the University Preseren prize. The wives in the test (SNG Drama Ljubljana) were awarded the Schelig prize, the Slovenian society of theatre critics and theatrologists award for the best performance in the past season, and the Maribor Theatre Prize for an integrated approach to material processing.
Living Bizovic
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Live Bizovik (1998) creates as a theater and radio director. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in AGRFT, the theater directing program, where she graduated in 2022 and is currently attending the Master's program Theater and radio directing. She received the Academy Award for directing Zajc's Jagababa. As part of the Superman programme , Sng Drama Ljubljana created the author's project wives in Test, which entered the competition programme of the week of Slovenian drama and the Maribor Theatre meeting, and received the Schelig award for best performance, the award of the Society of theatre critics and theatrologists of Slovenia for the best performance in 2022, and the Maribor prize for an integrated approach to material processing. In 2023, at SLG Celje, she directed the author's project assault based on the life and work of Karl Destovnik – Kajuh, which also took part in the Slovenian drama week and the Maribor theatre meeting, where she received the Maribor Theatre Prize for author's concept and dramatization. In 2024, she directed the drama princes Elfriede Jelinek at the Skopje Drama Theater , and at the beginning of 2025, the author's project Bosko and Admira premiered, to which she is signed as a director.
Kathy Acker
DON KIHOT, KI JE BILA SEN
Koprodukcija z Mestom žensk
»Z romanom Don Kihot, ki je bila sen (1986) Kathy Acker apropriira Cervantesov izvirnik, da bi z novim besedilom razsula svet, v katerem živi. Če je Cervantesov Don Kihot moški, ki zaradi branja viteških romanov zblazni in se odloči, da bo postal vitez, obudil viteštvo in služil svojemu narodu, je Don Kihota pri Acker sodobna ženska, ki naredi splav, saj mora – preden bi v svet poslala nedolžnega otroka – najprej najti ljubezen. Don Kihotove viteške romane nadomestijo ljubezenski romani sester Brontë in Jane Austen, od katerih si Acker ne izposoja samo motivov, temveč cele dele besedil, like in principe pisanja. Don Kihoto na njenih dogodivščinah po New Yorku spremljata Pes, ki je zanjo pasja reinkarnacija njenega preminulega partnerja Svetega Simeona, in bolniška postelja, ki jo naslavlja kot Rosinanto. Ves čas pa se pojavljajo Nixon, Reagan in devica Marija, ki vsak na svoj način zaznamujejo čas osemdesetih let 20. stoletja, v katerem poteka dogajanje v dramatizaciji. Vendar Don Kihotina norost ni zgolj njena lastna, temveč je odmik od sveta, ki je zblaznel, krut in neljubeč, sveta, v katerem so ljudje drug drugemu psi, manjvredne potepuške živali, vladajo pa mu zlobni čarovniki, ki nadzorujejo vse.
Uprizoritev montažno sledi metodi cut-up, ki je tudi metoda pisanja Acker. Obstoječe situacije iz romana tako razširja z referencami iz popkulture, politične scene in literarnega kanona ter s specifično narativno logiko sledi avtoričinemu biografskemu in avtofikcijskemu načinu pripovedi. Don Kihot se tako neprestano prepleta s Kathy Acker, njene prigode pa z avtoričino biografijo,« je zapisal prevajalec, avtor dramatizacije in dramaturg uprizoritve Nik Žnidaršič.
Kathy Acker
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Kathy Acker (1947–1997) je bila ameriška eksperimentalna romanopiska, punk pesnica, esejistka in performativna umetnica, znana po svojih provokativnih in transgresivnih delih. Danes jo umeščamo med vodilne figure ameriške postmodernistične in feministične literature. Njeno pisanje zaznamujeta radikalna forma ter eksperimentiranje z naracijo in jezikom. Pogosto je uporabljala tehnike kolaža, apropriacije in pastiša, s katerimi je razrahljala literarni kanon ter ga prepletala s pornografijo, teorijo in avtobiografskimi elementi. Njena dela preizprašujejo pojme avtorstva, identitete, družbenih konvencij in moči. Don Kihot, ki je bila sen je prvi prevod in prva uprizoritev njenega dela v Sloveniji.
Nik Žnidaršič
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Nik Žnidaršič (2000) je diplomirani dramaturg, ki deluje na institucionalni in neodvisni sceni. Redno sodeluje z režiserko Živo Bizovičar (Boško in Admira, Juriš, Žene v testu …), pri avtorskih projektih ( Agmisterij , kot soavtor pa Razmetana soba, Od kod, dekle, si ti doma ) in plesnih predstavah ( Tam, v vrtu, Antologija krika I: Vrečka presenečenja ). Za Juriš (SLG Celje) sta z Bizovičar prejela Borštnikovo nagrado za avtorski koncept/dramatizacijo, za diplomsko nalogo Kemp je prejel akademijsko Prešernovo nagrado, za predstavo v trajanju Agmisterij pa so ustvarjalci prejeli univerzitetno Prešernovo nagrado. Žene v testu (SNG Drama Ljubljana) so bile nagrajene s Šeligovo nagrado, nagrado Društva gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije za najboljšo uprizoritev v pretekli sezoni ter Borštnikovo nagrado za celostni pristop k obdelavi materiala.
Živa Bizovičar
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Živa Bizovičar (1998) ustvarja kot gledališka in radijska režiserka. Po končani gimnaziji se je vpisala na AGRFT, program Gledališka režija, kjer je diplomirala leta 2022 in trenutno obiskuje magistrski program Gledališka in radijska režija. Za režijo Zajčeve Jagababe je prejela akademijsko Prešernovo nagrado. V SNG Drama Ljubljana je v sklopu programa Superman ustvarila avtorski projekt Žene v testu , ki se je uvrstil v tekmovalni program Tedna slovenske drame in Borštnikovega srečanja ter prejel Šeligovo nagrado za najboljšo predstavo, nagrado Društva gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije za najboljšo uprizoritev v letu 2022 ter Borštnikovo nagrado za celostni pristop k obdelavi gradiva. Leta 2023 je v SLG Celje režirala avtorski projekt Juriš po motivih življenja in dela Karla Destovnika – Kajuha, ki se je prav tako uvrstil na Teden slovenske drame in Borštnikovo srečanje, kjer je prejel Borštnikovo nagrado za avtorski koncept in dramatizacijo. Leta 2024 je v Dramskem teatru Skopje režirala Drame princes Elfriede Jelinek, v začetku leta 2025 pa je premiero doživel avtorski projekt Boško in Admira , pri katerem je podpisana kot režiserka.