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Première: 6 October 2018, lower and upper hall of the Mladinsko Theatre
Running time along with 4 breaks is ten hours.

The starting point of the creative process is the Don Juan myth.
Additional text devised by the ensemble.

Directior and dramaturg Tomi Janežič 
Set design Branko Hojnik 
Costume design Marina Sremac
Music selection the ensemble
Sound design Silvo Zupančič
Lighting designers David Cvelbar, Tomi Janežič
Assistant directors Mirjana Medojević, Daniel Day Škufca
Assistant set designer Aleksander Vujović 
Video Dušan Ojdanič
Make-up artist Nathalie Horvat
Language consultant Mateja Dermelj 
Stage manager Gašper Tesner

Cast
Neda R. Bric, Daša Doberšek Tomi Janežič as guest, Nataša Keser as guest, Boris Kos, Mirjana Medojević as guest, Anja Novak, Draga Potočnjak, Matej Recer, Blaž Šef, Daniel Day Škufca as guest, Stane Tomazin, Matija Vastl

Don Juan is one of those literary figures that have gone through most adaptation. For almost a year and a half, Tomi Janežič and his team also took him as a reference point for their research and laboratory approach. Parallel to that, Simona Semenič was writing a new text, titled as no title yet. Semenič approached Don Juan, this time carrying the quintessential Slovenian name Janez, from the angle of his "seducees" and through the consequences of his acts – which all blend into a whole in a single moment, in a single heartbeat. A moment needed that a body that slips from the bed hits the ground. The text has merged superbly with the material created at the rehearsals, and Janežič mixed it subtly into a rich, layered whole which adds another view to the countless versions of Don Juan and donjuanism, and particularly speaks of our joys, hopes, fears and distress. 

no title yetis a theatre fantasy, and its contents also tackle the question of human fantasies. Its creators strive to be continuously conscious of the fact that attitude towards death is an important element of the original myth of Don Juan, as is, consequently, the question how to live and survive. At times it seems that these two require a miracle.

The text approaches the topics of stereotypical and indisputable Donjuanesque machismo from the aspect of consequences, such as rapes, rejections, the question whether to live or die, draining of life in disappointment, a car crash, feelings of a loser, shattered dreams … All this is, in Semenič’s and Janežič’s theatre, with an excellent ensemble, beautiful, magnificent and magical, elevated to the level of a moment caught, a moment which is transient. All the elements of the performance are imbued with the sense of transiency; they also lead the spectators into it and literally fill them with fresh air.

Petra Tanko, Radio Slovenija, 7 October 2018

Director

Tomi Janežič, a theatre director and educator, who also works as a psychodrama therapist, is an associate professor at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana, but has also lectured at a number of other tertiary education institutions in Slovenia and abroad. As a director, he works in the post-Yugoslav region, Italy, Norway and Russia. His performances have toured to festivals in Europe, Russia and the USA. He has won more than 30 international awards, including two Golden Laurel Wreaths from MESS Sarajevo, the Audience Award and the International Critics’ Award at Bitef (Belgrade), several Sterija Awards; he was also nominated for the Golden Mask, the most prestigious Russian theatre award, and a Hedda, an equally important award in Norway, and won the UT Award for the best performance of 2016 in Norway. This year he was nominated for it again. 

Producer

The Mladinsko story started in 1955 and it reached one of its peaks in 2008 with the title of the European Ambassador of Culture bestowed upon the theatre by the European Commission. In our new projects, we are dealing with the symptomisation of the society, and we show the recorded symptoms using the appropriate performative procedures. For this reason, public space, to us, becomes an equal performance space.

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