Bovec, 28. March 2026
Theatre Company Kontrada from Kanal presents a new theatre performance Ritrit, which premiered on 6. September at 19. classes at the Cultural Center in Desklah. It is a baptismal performance of the work of the Slovenian playwright of the younger generation Vesna Hauschild. Since 1996, the Kontrada Kanal theater society, as a rule, annually puts on the stage the premiere of a new theatrical work. We failed the rule only in the corona years 2020 and 2022, when we were unable to implement it due to restrictions in the implementation of exercises. In terms of genre, the selected works are always comedies, and this is the case this year, when we decided on the work of the young and relatively unadulterated translator and playwright Vesna Hauschild. In addition to drama writing, he also writes television and film scripts.
Ritrit, which is wittily subtitled by the author with the genre label 'reborn parody', was created in 2017 and has not been staged so far. In a parodic way, it uses elements of NE'akul age spirituality mixed with typically Western capitalist values such as unbridled individualism and the whitewashing of spiritual practices. Also, the purpose of the so – called work on oneself is actually not inner peace and enlightenment, but resistance to the work demands of everyday life-we strengthen ourselves, in fact, in order to be able to work even more and even better, not because we realize that it is excessive work with we are putting us at risk.
Anyway, modern problems require modern solutions, and it doesn't take much to find yourself one day in a villa in the middle of the forest with strangers, where a few suspicious guys shake out "wise advice and floating instructions" from their sleeves for practically every disorder in life, from low back pain and depression to crumbling marriages and unconscious childhood traumas.
Do not be afraid, you get everything you need on "ritrit", a spiritual retreat where in four days you can fix everything that has accumulated, knitted, crumbled and destroyed for decades. But that's not all, you can put on a new name, travel outside the body, explore what you were in a previous life ... for a fee, of course. Solutions to all adversities are actually already within you, you just need to find them by training the mind and channeling hidden energies.
In the face of the exhausting solutions of Western medicine and psychotherapy, eastern buzzers and singing bowls seem like harbingers of a Lost Paradise, in which rhythmic breathing and repetition of "everything is good, everything possible will be good" is enough to eliminate all problems.«
Bovec, 28. marca 2026
Gledališko društvo Kontrada iz Kanala predstavlja nov gledališko predstavo Ritrit, ki je bila premierno uprizorjena 6. septembra ob 19. uri v Kulturnem domu v Desklah. Gre za krstno uprizoritev dela slovenske dramaturginje mlajše generacije Vesne Hauschild. Gledališko društvo Kontrada Kanal od leta 1996 praviloma vsako leto na oder postavi premiero novega gledališkega dela. Pravilu smo se izneverili zgolj v koronskih letih 2020 in 2022, ko zaradi omejitev pri izvajanju vaj tega nismo uspeli izvesti. Žanrsko so izbrana dela vedno komedije in tako je tudi letos, ko smo se odločili za delo mlade in razmeroma neuveljavljene prevajalke in dramaturginje Vesne Hauschild. Poleg dramskih besedil piše tudi televizijske in filmske scenarije.
Ritrit, ki ga avtorica duhovito podnaslovi z žanrsko oznako ‘prerodna parodija’, je nastal leta 2017 in doslej še ni bil uprizorjen. Na parodičen način uporablja elemente new age duhovnosti, pomešane s tipično zahodnimi kapitalističnimi vrednotami, kot sta nebrzdan individualizem in poblagovljenje duhovnih praks. Tudi namen t. i. dela na sebi pravzaprav ni notranji mir in razsvetljenje, temveč odpornost na delovne zahteve vsakdana – krepimo se pravzaprav zato, da bi lahko delali še več in še bolje, ne ker bi spoznali, da je pretirano delo sámo tisto, ki nas ogroža.
Kakorkoli že, moderne težave zahtevajo moderne rešitve in ni treba dosti, da se nekega dne z neznanci znajdete v vili sredi gozda, kjer nekaj sumljivih tipov iz rokava stresa »modre nasvete in plava navodila« za praktično vsako življenjsko motnjo, od bolečin v križu in depresije do razpadajočih zakonov in nezavednih travm iz otroštva.
Ne bojte se, vse, kar potrebujete, dobite na »ritritu«, duhovnem odmiku, kjer lahko v štirih dneh popravite vse, kar se je nabiralo, pletlo, krhalo in uničevalo desetletja. To pa še ni vse, lahko si nadenete novo ime, potujete izven telesa, raziskujete, kaj ste bili v prejšnjem življenju … proti plačilu seveda. Rešitve za vse nadloge so pravzaprav že v vas, le poiskati jih je treba s treningom uma in kanaliziranjem skritih energij.
Ob napornih rešitvah zahodne medicine in psihoterapije se vzhodnjaška brenkala in pojoče sklede zdijo kot znanilci izgubljenega raja, v katerem je za odpravo vseh težav dovolj ritmično dihanje in ponavljanje »vse je dobro, vse mogoče dobro bo.«
