Based on Dane Zajc’s play Children of the River; praying sample by Dragan Živadinov
REKA, REKA/ Syntapiens::IZ
Delak Institute
Schedule
Première: 19. 12. 2018, Osmo/za
Running time 1 hour 10 minutes. No interval.
DIrector Dragan Živadinov
Language consultant Špela Kopitar
Costume and set designer Dunja Zupančič
Digital constructor Miha Turšič
Composer and sound designer Dario Seraval
Lighting designer Janez Kocjan
3D print Luka Frelih
Technical manager Anže Rogelja
Cast
Iva Zupančič Miranda Trnjanin
Poet Dane Zajc Borut Veselko
Writer Dane Zajc Marko Mlačnik
Stranger Davor Janjić
SYNTAPIENS::IZ/Reka, Reka/ is a theatre event dedicated exclusively to the impressive artistic opus of Iva Zupančič (also a Borštnik Ring laureate), who in 1962 played the role of Reka in the baptismal staging of Children of the River by the playwright and poet Dane Zajc, directed by Taras Kermauner. The project is a part of the universe of the 50-year theatre performance Noordung::1995–2045 which researches the destiny of theatre when art, after Modernism in the 20th century, distanced itself from the mimetic, figurative, narrative and shifted towards abstraction.
Director
Dragan Živadinov studied at the UL AGRFT and in the 1980s (co)-founded the most radical experimental projects in Slovenia (Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre, Red Pilot, Cosmokinetic Cabinet Noordung). He was also a co-founder of the artistic movement Neue Slowenische Kunst. He is involved with Internet theatre and collaborates with the Centre for Performing Arts Research Delak through his historical-aesthetic contributions. He devised the Retrogarde theatre method, advocating the principles of the 20th-century historical artistic avant-gardes as well as the constructive and prophetic power of theatre art.
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