The Little Wire Girl

Original title Djevojčica sa žicama

Première: 26. 5. 2018, Mala drama SNT Drama Ljubljana
Running time 1 hour 10 minutes. No interval.

Director Marjan Nečak
Author of the songs Ana Bunteska
Translator and dramaturg Darja Dominkuš
Composer, set- and lighting designer Marjan Nečak
Costume designer Nataša Filipovič
Language consultant Tatjana Stanič
Author of the video Marin Lukanović
Choreographer Žigan Krajnčan
Translator of songs in English Elena Kitanovska
Translator of text in English Maja Hrgović
Translator of excerpt Valentina Ilievska
English language consultant Darja Dominkuš
German language consultant Eva Kraševec

Cast
She Barbara Cerar
He Uroš Fürst
Policeman’s voice Branko Šturbej

In the course of journey and stopovers at various railway stations, the story of life of violinist unfolds, from a little girl who wanted to become a top musician, while her father spent the money earmarked for her school fees, to an old woman, still searching to find her spot under the European sky, having spent her entire life as a busker. The reference to Andersen’s "little match girl" is multi-layered. A harsh economic situation, a complicated relationship with the unsuccessful father, a search to find one’s place in contemporary Europe, which is increasingly turning into a place of social exclusion confined by barbed wire, walls and general restrictions ̶ the story is a reminder of a position of many gifted individuals who are currently seeking shelter to fully develop their potentials. However, Europe often turns out to be nothing but "a pale mother", mastering to perfection how to refuse asylum seeker applications and crush their high hopes. With fathers who had no idea how to protect their children or were unable to look after them, the children are nothing but orphans on windswept train platforms of our cold, alienated technocratic world. Driven by an unstoppable need for artistic expression, they seem to cling to every opportunity, as slim as it may be, to enrich their own lives and the lives of their random passers-by.

On a borderline space between the real world and the dream world, in plausible, but often unpleasant situations at border crossings and checkpoints, memories and visions intertwining times and languages, music and poetry, bitterness and beauty of life.