Fire

Première 2019
Running time 1 hour 25 minutes. No interval.
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Director Živa Bizovičar
Dramaturgs Urša Majcen, Iva Štefanija Slosar
Set and lighting designers Neža Dali Novak, Dan Pikalo
Costume designers Nika Dolgan, Katja Vrenko

Cast
Gaja Filač, Klemen Kovačič, Klara Kuk, Gašper Lovrec, Lea Mihevc, Filip Mramor, Domen Novak, Ivana Percan Kodarin, Tina Resman, Jure Žavbi, Veronika Železnik

Mentors
Acting and theatre directing doc. Branko Jordan, izr. prof. Jernej Lorenci
Set design izr. prof. mag. Jasna Vastl, Branko Hojnik
Costume design red. prof. Janja Korun, asist. mag. Tina Kolenik
Lighting design doc. David Orešič
Language and speech asist. dr. Nina Žavbi

In a world where any kind of fire is undesirable, are living characters transferred from "an English evening" into the situation of "a Slovenian lunch", as personally experienced by the young creative team. Like a living organism, the content moves through today’s spaces and times of (over)abundance, endless possibilities and choice. It searches for the forms of happiness in the pain of vacuous living. It understands the motif of fire from The Bald Soprano as some sort of "content" of a person, the will for life that stands as the opposite of the inwardly empty, but outwardly fully "decorated" characters. These characters search for happiness in things – a well-appointed house, money, leisure activities. They construct the image, but fear real fire. Even if there once had been something smouldering inside them, they have removed it, suppressed it, projected it elsewhere, so that it’s not in their way. They’ve reconciled with the manipulation of the capricious time, they’ve yield to it in the flood of possibilities and try to suppress the tiniest flame that hasn’t reconciled with the world, but continues to yearn.