Fireflies

Original title Krijesnice

Première: 18 October 2018, Ljubljana City Theatre
Running time 2 hours and 15 minutes. One interval.

Director Nina Rajić Kranjac
Translator Alenka Klabus Vesel
Dramaturg Petra Pogorevc
Set designer Urša Vidic
Costume designer Andrej Vrhovnik
Language consultant Maja Cerar
Lighting designer Andrej Koležnik
Sound designer Sašo Dragaš
Stage manager Sanda Žnidarčič
Prompter Nataša Gregorin Ahtik
Technical director Janez Koleša
Stage foreman Matej Sinjur

In the performance we used some short texts that were written by the actresses and actors during the creative process. The music was selected by Nina Rajić Kranjac.

Cast
Clara Jožica Avbelj as guest
Martin Primož Pirnat
Rozita Ana Dolinar Horvat
Žana Jana Zupančič
Toni Gregor Gruden
Olga Sara Dirnbek as guest
Oliver Brane Grubar as guest
Felipe Jernej Gašperin
Anja Karin Komljanec
Lena Tanja Dimitrievska
Cherie Viktorija Bencik Emeršič
Brenda Lena Hribar
Blue Jurij Drevenšek as guest

Fireflies is set at an international airport, symbolising the ease of travel and freedom of movement, while being also an area under strict surveillance, governed by countless rules and prohibitions due to security reasons. As the weather conditions suddenly deteriorate, air traffic is brought to a halt due to a blizzard, so the everyday hustle and bustle calms down, prompting the airport staff and many stranded passengers to disclose their lives and establish contacts. The fact that they are obviously not staying at the airport only in short transit gives them a dramatic focus and highlights their individual characteristics. To some degree their original plans change due to a standstill, and their brief encounters will somehow affect their future lives.

Tena Štivičić is a Croatian playwright who is no stranger to Slovenian theatre goers, since three of her plays have been staged in Slovenian theatres. She is living and creating in London, and has achieved quite an enviable international success. In her plays, she often deals with the subject of migrations, also in Fireflies.

Director

She received several awards during her studies at the UL AGRFT: among them, for Three Sisters (2012), the student award for the best production. For the performance 1981 (S. Semenič), the first prize for the best production at the International Dramatic Arts Festival in Zagreb, the Šeligo Award for the Best Performance at the Week of Slovenian Drama; and in 2014, the Student Prešeren Award from UL AGRFT for her direction of this and another performance. In 2015, she accepted the resident position at Glej Theatre where she directed The Conference of the Birds (by J. C. Carri.re and P. Brook) for which she won two awards at the 56^th International Theatre Festival MESS in Sarajevo. In 2016, she received the Prešeren Award for Students from the University of Ljubljana for her direction of the same play.