As far as I can remember, I always drank Aperol Spritz on warm nights. Many of the most important discussions or the most memorable meetings with other people in some corner of the park, in the center of some festival or at friends ' home were accompanied by Orange blends of this aperitif, sparkling wine and sparkling water. How it began, I do not remember. Perhaps I liked its taste. Perhaps there was something in his color – The Color Shimmer was not too intrusive or vain, but just kitschy enough to be cool. The alcohol in it never acted like a hammer, but relaxed the muscles and brought you a deep, undisturbed sleep at night.
But I have long ceased to like The Taste of Aperol Spritz. At the same time, it is too sweet and lean. Its color began to bother me, and the social contacts that it helps to create are no longer exclusive, because now everyone drinks it. The mixing process is tedious and routine, the ingredients and proportions never change, there is no room for imagination in the preparation – one and the same mixture is repeated in my glass, unchanged, over and over again.
And yet, when the moment comes, I ask the waiter or friend to prepare an Aperol Spritz for me, and then I sit on some suburban balcony, flirting with a glass of orange liquid in my hand. The evenings are warm and remind me of many other warm nights before. Sometimes it rains. I stir a crystal clear cocktail garnished with a slice of orange and take a few sips. Then I watch the charred ice cubes slowly but inevitably melt.
The prequel is about recollection and amnesia, which always walk hand in hand. What do we choose to remember and what to forget? Are we what we remember or what we choose not to remember? Is there a historical memory? What about social? What is it that he even remembers? What story does this scratch tell? That smell? This bomb hole?
Concept and implementation: Mart Kangro
Dramaturgy: Mart Kangro, Eero Epner
Technical manager: Kalle Tikas
Scene, sound and light: Kalle Tikas, Mart Kangro, Anu Vahtra
Space consulting: Anu Vahtra
Technical performance of the show: Kalle Tikas
Co-production: Kanuti Gildi Saal, Moving and November
Photos: Renee Altrov, Alan Proosa
Production management: Kaie K Animtnal
The show is in English.
Biographies
Estonian artists Mart Kangro and Eero Epner are already well known to the Slovenian audience, as they have performed three times at the festival Mladi levi with their colleague Juhan Ulfsak. In 2023, together with Ulfsak and Slovenian holders Katarina Stegnar, Primoz Bezjak and Branko Jordan, they co-created the show FUN FACT, which is touring all over Europe.
Mart Kangro is a freelance choreographer, director and performer. In his works, he focuses on the importance of the human body and movement in the theater as a semiotic space-time, as well as on existential issues of the stage situation. His productions have been presented at major festivals in over 20 countries across Europe. Over the past seven years, he has created several collaborative plays together with actor and director Juhan Ulfsak and playwright eer Epner. In addition, he also directed plays in which he himself did not appear.
Eero Epner has worked as a playwright on about 70 productions. Between 2004 and 2018, he worked at Theater No99, From Dusk Till Dawn. He has worked with dozens of directors, including Mart Kangra on several occasions.
Kalle Tikas (1974) has been engaged in theater projects for two decades. He mostly creates sound and lighting solutions for theatre and live and recorded music for contemporary performances. He has collaborated with the bands United Dancers of ZUGA and MIMproject, as well as with the musical collectives BF and Ringhold.
Kolikor se spomnim, sem v toplih nočeh vedno pil Aperol Spritz. Številne najpomembnejše razprave ali najbolj nepozabna srečanja z drugimi ljudmi v kakšnem kotu parka, v središču kakšnega festivala ali pri prijateljih doma so spremljale oranžkaste mešanice tega aperitiva, penečega vina in gazirane vode. Kako se je začelo, se ne spomnim. Morda mi je bil všeč njegov okus. Morda je bilo nekaj v njegovi barvi – barvno lesketanje ni bilo preveč vsiljivo ali nečimrno, a ravno dovolj kičasto, da je bilo kul. Alkohol v njem nikoli ni deloval kot kladivo, temveč je sprostil mišice in ti ponoči prinesel globok, nemoten spanec.
Toda že dolgo mi okus Aperol Spritza ni več všeč. Hkrati je preveč sladek in pust. Njegova barva me je začela motiti, družbeni stiki, ki jih pomaga ustvarjati, pa niso več ekskluzivni, saj ga zdaj pijejo vsi. Postopek mešanja je dolgočasen in rutinski, sestavine in razmerja se nikoli ne spreminjajo, pri pripravi ni prostora za domišljijo – ena in ista mešanica se v mojem kozarcu ponavlja, nespremenjena, znova in znova.
In vendar, ko pride trenutek, prosim natakarja ali prijatelja, naj mi pripravi Aperol Spritz, in nato sedim na kakšnem primestnem balkonu ter se spogledujem s kozarcem oranžne tekočine v roki. Večeri so topli in me spominjajo na številne druge tople noči poprej. Včasih dežuje. Premešam kristalno čist koktajl, okrašen z rezino pomaranče, in naredim nekaj požirkov. Nato opazujem, kako se ogoljene ledene kocke počasi, a neizogibno topijo.
PREDPRETEKLIK govori o spominjanju in amneziji, ki vedno hodita z roko v roki. Česa se odločimo spominjati in kaj pozabiti? Ali smo to, kar pomnimo, ali to, česar smo se odločili ne pomniti? Ali obstaja zgodovinski spomin? Kaj pa družbeni? Kaj je tisto, kar sploh pomni? Kakšno zgodbo pripoveduje ta praska? Ta vonj? Ta bombna luknja?
Koncept in izvedba: Mart Kangro
Dramaturgija: Mart Kangro, Eero Epner
Tehnični vodja: Kalle Tikas
Scena, zvok in luč: Kalle Tikas, Mart Kangro, Anu Vahtra
Svetovanje glede prostora: Anu Vahtra
Tehnična izvedba predstave: Kalle Tikas
Koprodukcija: Kanuti Gildi Saal, Moving in November
Fotografije: Renee Altrov, Alan Proosa
Vodstvo produkcije: Kaie Küünal
Predstava je v angleškem jeziku.
To gostovanje je podprl Estonski kulturni sklad (Estonian Cultural Endowment).
Biografije
Estonska umetnika Mart Kangro in Eero Epner sta slovenskemu občinstvu že dobro znana, saj sta s predstavami, v katerih sta sodelovala še s kolegom Juhanom Ulfsakom, kart trikrat gostovala na festivalu Mladi levi. Leta 2023 pa sta skupaj z Ulfsakom in slovenskimi imetniki Katarino Stegnar, Primožem Bezjakom in Brankom Jordanom soustvarili predstavo FUN FACT, ki gostuje po vsej Evropi.
Mart Kangro je svobodni koreograf, režiser in performer. V svojih delih se osredotoča na pomen človeškega telesa in gibanja v gledališču kot semiotičnega prostora-časa ter na eksistencialna vprašanja odrske situacije. Njegove produkcije so bile predstavljene na večjih festivalih v več kot 20 državah po Evropi. V zadnjih sedmih letih je ustvaril več sodelovalnih predstav skupaj z igralcem in režiserjem Juhanom Ulfsakom ter dramaturgom Eerom Epnerjem. Poleg tega je režiral tudi predstave, v katerih sam ni nastopal.
Eero Epner je sodeloval kot dramaturg pri približno 70 produkcijah. Med letoma 2004 in 2018 je deloval v gledališču NO99, od mraka do zore. Sodeloval je z več deset režiserji, med njimi večkrat tudi z Martom Kangrom.
Kalle Tikas (1974) se z gledališkimi projekti ukvarja že dve desetletji. Večinoma ustvarja zvočne in svetlobne rešitve za gledališče ter živo in zapisano glasbo za sodobne performanse. Sodeloval je s skupinama United Dancers of ZUGA in MIMproject ter z glasbenima kolektivoma BF in Ringhold.
