The right to be a human

Première 2019
Running time 1 hour and 30 minutes. No interval.
+ post-performance talk
The performance is in Slovenian with English surtitles
14+

Director Marko Bulc
Authors of texts Performers
Montage of texts Marko Bulc, Ana Duša
Dramaturg and the head of the creative-pedagogic process Ana Duša
Composer and music mentor Polona Janežič
Set designer Damir Leventić
Choreographer and mentor for movement Sebastjan Starič
Lighting designers Gregor Kuhar
Ensemble assistants Ana Kozina, Jošt Rogelj
Language consultants Irena Androjna Mencinger
Photographer Mankica Kranjec
Stage manager and sound designer Emil Koprivc
Producer Alja Cerar Mihajlović
Stage technician David Kraševec
Wardrobe mistress Daša Jordanovski
Stage builders Uroš Mehle, Vladson

Cast
Tibor Anželj, Matija David Brodnik, Dejan Cvek, Klara Gantar, Smiljan Hude, Liza Marija Humer, Sofija Kali Kirn, Zala Klinar, Jera Kočevar, Leon Kokošar, Tia Krhlanko, Luka Miloševič, Ana Praznik, Ema Radilovič, Indija Stropnik, Pavle Vastl, Aiko Zakrajšek, Maša Nela Zorc, Luka Žerdin

The production is an intimate image of a generation that is growing up in safe family environment, but entering a world of chaos and modern insecurities. What, concretely and in everyday life, does it mean to be a human? What is it like to be young here and now? What spaces does it open and what questions? Who proclaims their opinions and who listens? The production delves deep into the understanding of the permitted and the acceptable, into social and personal responsibility, into personal relationships. It doesn’t concede to the usual "correct" answers dictated by political correctness. It tries to go deeper, into personal fears, wishes, dreams, guilt, anger. Young artists don’t lend their voice to the expected, but to the concealed. The creative process was also a theatre laboratory, with an additional objective to educate the participants to become thespians and people who will know how to, and dare to, articulate their own thoughts, at times outside the boundaries of the expected and decent. 

With its laboratory, the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre actively includes young people into the theatre and wider cultural and social space, offers adults a possibility for a deeper insight into the thinking of young generations and opens a space for dialogue at the intersection. 

The performance is a practical introduction to the symposium The Right to Theatre.