According to the stories of Peter Svetina
Directed By Marusa Kink
Co-production: Slovenian Youth Theatre and Institute Divja misla - Vodnik Homestead
The production version of the text was created in collaboration with the creators of the play
Premiere: 26. 3. 2022
Recommended age: 6 +
Performances
Thursday / 24. 4. / 17:00 / Cankarjev dom
Cast
Lina Akif
Dasha Dobersek
Blaz Boss
Stane Tomazin
Pantaloons (Luka Belic / Gal Grobovsek, Aljaz Markezic, David Nik Lipovac)
Creators
Dramaturgy: Spela Frlic
Music: Pantaloons
Set and costume design: Vasilija Fisher
Headgear design: Alja dryer
Design of light: Matjaz Brisar
Sound design: Marijan Sajovic
Editor: Mateja Dermelj
Show manager and producer: Jera Topolovec
Description
A caravan is coming into the city, right between us. We don't know where it comes from or where it goes. But we know that just as carefully as other caravans load the most valuable goods – saffron, salt, tea or chocolate – our searches and cargoes stories. And on his way he finds such for all occasions and needs: a story for a good start, a story that warms you up, a story that comforts you, an exciting story, a story that fulfills desires, a scary story, a story that seeks and ultimately finds a happy and just ending. Four narrators and three lively musicians all around contact behind the stories and weave sounds, images, objects, the audience into the narrative; to get into the story, the whole world is available to them and to us.
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The young cast of four (Lina Akif, Dasha Dobersek, Blaz boss, Stane Tomazin) in the role of actors and storytellers takes the viewer on a fairytale journey through the fundamental genres of Svetin's stories and establishes a magical atmosphere. The actors involve the audience in the performance, listen to it, respond to it and give the viewer the feeling that he himself is part of the performance. The varied stage events, accompanied by the musical accompaniment of the Slovenian three-member group Pantaloons, further enliven the spectators. [ ... ] The atmosphere is constantly playful and radiates in intensely expressive colors that change according to the red thread of the story. The dramatic action also extends from the stage into the parterre, where the caravan travels between the seating rows, and the aesthetics of the changing scene are maintained throughout the performance. The performance addresses the inner child in the viewer and arouses curiosity in him. It takes and seduces him on a journey charged with emotions and full of laughter, and also engages him physically and does not allow him from beginning to end to distract from the stage action.
(Patricia Sekelj, Corridor-intersections of art, 23. april 2022 )
Tuba, saxophone and drums, turban on the head, Kuchma, horns and a fluttering flag announce the arrival of the caravan of stories, which will entertain viewers for a good hour in the narrative-theatrical performance of the Ragged story . [...] The pinnacle of Word Art in the LeT mustache selection is offered by a boss who takes the word game into unsuspected worlds. The accelerated pace of gossip, reminiscent of TV show hosts, includes passing dovetails, jokes, coincidence rhymes, concoctions and stylized smileys. The actor sovereignly demonstrates the ability to rotate the tongue, thereby creating a peculiar game-narrative form, in which the stage event, all its tension and effectiveness arise from speaking.
(Iva (rkhv Apprentice), Radio student, 05. april 2022 )
The stories of Peter Svetina, which the creators take as a substantive starting point of the performance, are booming, somewhat unusual, even bizarre. [...] They are imbued with animism and grotesqueness, unpredictability and an abundance of irony, which makes them exhaustive in creating content for children and youth (namely, the staged version of the text was created in collaboration with the creators of the play). However, the creators do not only use the storytelling at the content level, but the relationship between the stylistic narrative and the happening epic serves as a staging strategy for them. According to the principles of randomness, characters are also composed, which in their unusual, eclectic imagery and with their insanely unbalanced (and therefore funny) character accents act as if they had escaped from some scenario of Anderson's illustrations or specifically from the film The Fall , which, like the staging, addresses the power of storytelling and the creative openness of children's imagination.
(Tajda Lipicer, Sigledal, Kritika, 30. March 2022 )
In the play for children, stories are intertwined with theater and storytelling accompanied by music. Storytellers establish pleasant cooperation with viewers, lively events. In the full hall there were more than half of the children who did not get bored during the performance, but tensed to expect the next scenes.
(Maja Drolec, fan of words, 28. March 2022 )
The overtones of the ancient, primordial and archaic were heard, and the vocabularical games with euphemisms and novocas, coinage and other extremely witty originally bold linguistic attractions placed the unruly stories in dialogue with the current present. Secrets of wandering stories, heavy and light, intertwined, unfinished and interrupted, which travels in a suitcase of imagination, needs vigilant attention. Namely, innovative provocations are attached to the fairy-tale narrative laws, which challenge the structure of our encoded thought patterns. [...] A very intense performance, tense even in moments of its serenity, also shows the dedication and commitment of the artistic group, which put together the whole through a collection of author's contributions, imaginative comments, movements, gags, sound and musical interventions and other important elements.
(Magda Tushar, Radio Slovenia, Ars Program, 27. March 2022 )
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The performance is included in the catalog of high-quality performances on the Golden Rod platform .