Portal of Slovenian Performing Arts
It starts with a pool of blood. Nineteen eighties. And then it all starts spinning. The pool of dry blood disappears. Which world is better? The one we are living in, the one we’ve lived through or the one that’s still to come?
This is a story about a father abusing his daughter, but it is worse than that. Even those people in the story from whom actual help would be expected, such as the police inspector and the priest, both merely take advantage of their position and make profit from the helplessness of a girl driven into a state of extreme distress.
When was it that you were last standing powerless in front of a door, your very own version of The Door? Be it for an administrative bureaucratic idiotically absurd reason of not having put the right card on the counter or perhaps haven’t aligned it with the right edge? A cruel, bloody, shocking, provocative, blatantly brutal, tender, poetic and vulnerable play.
This grandiose and complex mix, using incredible imagination to freely turn over motifs from classical and contemporary imagery, stories from everyday life and the current social field, fiction and philosophy, probably won’t find its way to an actual stage easily, despite its staging potential. However, it definitely deserves attention, not least because of the pleasure it offers.
To be crucified is a heavy cross to bear . – This reflection on the suffering that man experiences and causes to his fellow man is shaped through contemplation of swapping the positions of man and Christ.
How to prolong love or the play that reveals us when we love, when we hate, when we surrender, and when we are outplayed ...