Performances
Wednesday, October 26 at 7pm: The Art of Saying Goodbye
Concept and performing: Sara Šoukal
Music: Justin Durel
Lights: Borut Cajnko
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets
What are we saying goodbye to when we end a story, leave an idea behind, part from a person, depart from ourselves... And... why? In her first improvised solo performance, Sara says goodbye to her coactors and faces the void they are leaving behind. How does this emptiness enrich her, what does it give her, what does it take away from her, who and what does she meet when she is alone? With the support of a musician, she dives into the unknown and finds more questions than answers.
The performance is a work in progress, a long-standing desire and an exciting challenge that Sara wants to tackle, embrace and say goodbye to. Every end is a new beginning, they say. And this work in progress is both at the same time.
Sara Šoukal is a seasoned performing artist, as an actress and as a teacher she is most active in the field of theatre improvisation. Lately, however, she has been stepping to other performative fields with great pleasure and interest. She is active at home, in many impro collectives and companies, as well as abroad.
Justin Durel makes and teaches theatre. He holds a degree in Playwriting from DePaul University in Chicago and a degree as an Actor-Creator from the Helikos International School of Theatre Creation. He is an award winning performer, dramatist, director, pedagog, mask-maker and a musician and has worked in the United States, Canada, Croatia, Ireland and Slovenia for over 25 years. He has been to Antarctica. This is his first time performing in an impro show.
Music: Justin Durel
Lights: Borut Cajnko
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets
What are we saying goodbye to when we end a story, leave an idea behind, part from a person, depart from ourselves... And... why? In her first improvised solo performance, Sara says goodbye to her coactors and faces the void they are leaving behind. How does this emptiness enrich her, what does it give her, what does it take away from her, who and what does she meet when she is alone? With the support of a musician, she dives into the unknown and finds more questions than answers.
The performance is a work in progress, a long-standing desire and an exciting challenge that Sara wants to tackle, embrace and say goodbye to. Every end is a new beginning, they say. And this work in progress is both at the same time.
Sara Šoukal is a seasoned performing artist, as an actress and as a teacher she is most active in the field of theatre improvisation. Lately, however, she has been stepping to other performative fields with great pleasure and interest. She is active at home, in many impro collectives and companies, as well as abroad.
Justin Durel makes and teaches theatre. He holds a degree in Playwriting from DePaul University in Chicago and a degree as an Actor-Creator from the Helikos International School of Theatre Creation. He is an award winning performer, dramatist, director, pedagog, mask-maker and a musician and has worked in the United States, Canada, Croatia, Ireland and Slovenia for over 25 years. He has been to Antarctica. This is his first time performing in an impro show.
Wednesday, October 26 at 9pm: Our Beloved Alter Idiots
Concept and performing: Za crknt Team
Mehanik Ferrarijev - Gergely Dózsa, Edina Živa Diva- Simeon Huzun, Beti - Tina Janežič, Evroposlanec - Tomaž Lapajne Dekleva, Tereza - Petra Markovič
Lights: Borut Cajnko
Production: Društvo za sodobno klovnsko umetnost
The performance is in Slovene and English.
Tickets
This time Za crknt offers a mix of shorter interventions and longer improvisations on the theme: my alter idiot. My alter idiot is a personality that lives in me, with me, in contact with me, does not let me breathe and participates in every artistic creation I go for. "Malgre moi" or in spite of me, my alter idiot is always there. This is a non-competitive and non-referential art form that is squatted with incapable alter idiots. This time, you will meet a fake managing director, a disoriented drag, a Ferrari mechanic, an overeducated seller of homemade eggs and an incompetent politician, which of course all smells like a reality show.
Years ago, a group of professional clowns decided to create the Za crknt cabaret in order to be able to research and develop contemporary clowning in all its dimensions and to bring it closer to an adult audience. They later formalized their activity in the association Društvo za sodobno klovnsko umetnost. Rather than to a traditional circus they offer a hand to life. Contemporary clowns break the fourth wall with humor and contact the people with their devoted play. With their naive and direct approach to today’s current topics, they address the audience members who took off their work clothes and remembered that they were human.
Mehanik Ferrarijev - Gergely Dózsa, Edina Živa Diva- Simeon Huzun, Beti - Tina Janežič, Evroposlanec - Tomaž Lapajne Dekleva, Tereza - Petra Markovič
Lights: Borut Cajnko
Production: Društvo za sodobno klovnsko umetnost
The performance is in Slovene and English.
Tickets
This time Za crknt offers a mix of shorter interventions and longer improvisations on the theme: my alter idiot. My alter idiot is a personality that lives in me, with me, in contact with me, does not let me breathe and participates in every artistic creation I go for. "Malgre moi" or in spite of me, my alter idiot is always there. This is a non-competitive and non-referential art form that is squatted with incapable alter idiots. This time, you will meet a fake managing director, a disoriented drag, a Ferrari mechanic, an overeducated seller of homemade eggs and an incompetent politician, which of course all smells like a reality show.
Years ago, a group of professional clowns decided to create the Za crknt cabaret in order to be able to research and develop contemporary clowning in all its dimensions and to bring it closer to an adult audience. They later formalized their activity in the association Društvo za sodobno klovnsko umetnost. Rather than to a traditional circus they offer a hand to life. Contemporary clowns break the fourth wall with humor and contact the people with their devoted play. With their naive and direct approach to today’s current topics, they address the audience members who took off their work clothes and remembered that they were human.
Photo: Miha Fras
Thursday, October 27 at 7pm: Call
Concept: Maja Dekleva Lapajne, Sonja Vilč, Alenka Marinič
Performing: Alenka Marinič, Maja Dekleva Lapajne
Lights: Borut Cajnko
Production: Družina umetnosti Narobov
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets
Out there, in the depths of archaic phonebooks, there are so many names, surnames and numbers! Who are these people, what is their flesh and blood? How do their lives look like and who is calling their number? What have they eaten for breakfast, where do they go to get their hair-cuts, who do they meet in the elevator and what are they thinking about just before falling asleep?
All kinds of monologues are wittily intertwined with miniature choreographies and eclectic music. Call is a piece about names and numbers, about the interconnected jungle of human lives, about the unique and sometimes bizarre situations people find themselves in. It is a piece about communication, isolation and connection, about the layers and mysteries of the mundane.
Kolektiv Narobov is dedicated to researching and creating live and living art, be it street interventions, theater events, radio shows or concert performances. The important pillars of their artistic work are improvisation and collective work. The performance Call had a premiere in Edmonton back in 2006 and has since then toured Canada, the USA, Germany, France, Belgium, Reunion, the Netherlands and Slovenia. The performance is alive for such a long time precisely because it is constantly changing. It offers enough space to be up-to-date with professional and personal lives of the performing artists and with the time and space we live in. The decision to revive exclusively female names from the phone book is not a coincidence.
Performing: Alenka Marinič, Maja Dekleva Lapajne
Lights: Borut Cajnko
Production: Družina umetnosti Narobov
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets
Out there, in the depths of archaic phonebooks, there are so many names, surnames and numbers! Who are these people, what is their flesh and blood? How do their lives look like and who is calling their number? What have they eaten for breakfast, where do they go to get their hair-cuts, who do they meet in the elevator and what are they thinking about just before falling asleep?
All kinds of monologues are wittily intertwined with miniature choreographies and eclectic music. Call is a piece about names and numbers, about the interconnected jungle of human lives, about the unique and sometimes bizarre situations people find themselves in. It is a piece about communication, isolation and connection, about the layers and mysteries of the mundane.
Kolektiv Narobov is dedicated to researching and creating live and living art, be it street interventions, theater events, radio shows or concert performances. The important pillars of their artistic work are improvisation and collective work. The performance Call had a premiere in Edmonton back in 2006 and has since then toured Canada, the USA, Germany, France, Belgium, Reunion, the Netherlands and Slovenia. The performance is alive for such a long time precisely because it is constantly changing. It offers enough space to be up-to-date with professional and personal lives of the performing artists and with the time and space we live in. The decision to revive exclusively female names from the phone book is not a coincidence.
Thursday, October 27 at 9pm: More Than 2
Concept and performing: Paula Galimberti, Gonzalo Piñán
Music: Goran Završnik
Lights: Borut Cajnko
The performance is in English.
Tickets
We all have a neighbour, a roommate, a friend or a coworker that we find peculiar, unusually interesting, mysteriously exciting, attractively kooky. In More Than 2 Gonzalo Piñán and Paula Galimberti give life to this kind of characters. They tell their most intimate stories, the things that only happen inside their homes. Come and inspire the performers with the people you meet in the elevator, the people you see in the garage, come across in the doorway of your house or have shared an apartment with. Maybe this kind of people and characteristics live also within you and you might dare to take a visit to this part of yourself. Welcome to our new neighbourhood!
Paula Galimberti is an actress, improviser, director and teacher. She studied at the Cristina Rota Acting School in Madrid and received additional training by Jordan Bayne. She has been professionally active since 1996 and works mainly on the Madrid - Berlin route, where she currently lives. She is the founder of the impro group Jamming in Madrid. In Berlin she collaborates with the company Esimpro and the project Esimprocine and she co-creates the duet with the artist Inbal Lori. The performance More than 2 is her latest work, premiering right at the Naked Stage.
Gonzalo Piñán is a member of the Berlin based company Esimpro and the founder and the artistic director of the school of performing arts and improvisation Esimproescuela, which has been operating in Berlin since 2013 in English and Spanish. He is an actor, musician, composer and psychologist by basic education. He gained theatrical and improvisational knowledge and experience through working with theatres and artists El Club de la Impro, Die Gorillas, Quinto Parpadeo, Al Tran Trán Impromusical, Paula Galimberti, David Razowsky, Tim Orr, Inbal Lori, Carmela Leotta and Camila Edwards. After moving to Berlin, he actively co-created the Spanish-speaking artistic community there.
Goran Završnik learnt piano as a child and after three years he ran from music school and never came back. Then he discovered the synthesizer with lots of buttons and everything became fun again. Now, after thirty years, he works with incredibly interesting impro artists and groups, musically co-creating events like the Improvision Song Contest in Ljubljana and Graz, Moment festival in Vienna or Improvention festival in Canberra, Australia. He is trying to push the right button or key at the right moment, not to interrupt too much the almighty impro actors on stage. The best accompanying music, they say, is music you don’t hear. But sometimes impro musicians need to be loud and full of initiative. From a punk singer and a keyboard player in a high school band of the Yugoslavian Army to the biggest (110 kg) Slovenian impro theatre musician.
Music: Goran Završnik
Lights: Borut Cajnko
The performance is in English.
Tickets
We all have a neighbour, a roommate, a friend or a coworker that we find peculiar, unusually interesting, mysteriously exciting, attractively kooky. In More Than 2 Gonzalo Piñán and Paula Galimberti give life to this kind of characters. They tell their most intimate stories, the things that only happen inside their homes. Come and inspire the performers with the people you meet in the elevator, the people you see in the garage, come across in the doorway of your house or have shared an apartment with. Maybe this kind of people and characteristics live also within you and you might dare to take a visit to this part of yourself. Welcome to our new neighbourhood!
Paula Galimberti is an actress, improviser, director and teacher. She studied at the Cristina Rota Acting School in Madrid and received additional training by Jordan Bayne. She has been professionally active since 1996 and works mainly on the Madrid - Berlin route, where she currently lives. She is the founder of the impro group Jamming in Madrid. In Berlin she collaborates with the company Esimpro and the project Esimprocine and she co-creates the duet with the artist Inbal Lori. The performance More than 2 is her latest work, premiering right at the Naked Stage.
Gonzalo Piñán is a member of the Berlin based company Esimpro and the founder and the artistic director of the school of performing arts and improvisation Esimproescuela, which has been operating in Berlin since 2013 in English and Spanish. He is an actor, musician, composer and psychologist by basic education. He gained theatrical and improvisational knowledge and experience through working with theatres and artists El Club de la Impro, Die Gorillas, Quinto Parpadeo, Al Tran Trán Impromusical, Paula Galimberti, David Razowsky, Tim Orr, Inbal Lori, Carmela Leotta and Camila Edwards. After moving to Berlin, he actively co-created the Spanish-speaking artistic community there.
Goran Završnik learnt piano as a child and after three years he ran from music school and never came back. Then he discovered the synthesizer with lots of buttons and everything became fun again. Now, after thirty years, he works with incredibly interesting impro artists and groups, musically co-creating events like the Improvision Song Contest in Ljubljana and Graz, Moment festival in Vienna or Improvention festival in Canberra, Australia. He is trying to push the right button or key at the right moment, not to interrupt too much the almighty impro actors on stage. The best accompanying music, they say, is music you don’t hear. But sometimes impro musicians need to be loud and full of initiative. From a punk singer and a keyboard player in a high school band of the Yugoslavian Army to the biggest (110 kg) Slovenian impro theatre musician.
Friday, October 28 at 7pm: Life. Refabricated.
Concept and performing: Norbert Sven Fö, Maja Dekleva Lapajne
The performance is in Slovene, English and more.
Tickets will only be available at the box office at the Old Power Station.
Life. Refabricated. is a regular meeting on stage of Maja Dekleva Lapajne and Norbert Sven Fö, observing and exploring the meeting points of theatre and dance improvisation, wandering off into clowning, enjoying some sound and music making and, last but not least, refabricating life. All this stage endeavor is fueled by close friendship and powered by passion for creating games. Each such event is focused on a particular theme which is sticking out at the time of the meeting. Reflecting on the theme while performing and doing so by using the medium of performing, the artists reflect not only on the theme, but as well on performing, relation to the public, stage as medium and life itself.
Norbert Sven Fö is a member of DISCOllective that researches playfulness in a role of a dancer, choreographer, performer, clown, teacher, writer, producer, among many; and in formats like performance, dance, play, game, event, choreography, social experiment, installation, lecture, workshop, class, publication, clown act, video, score, among many.
Maja Dekleva Lapajne is a director and a performer from Ljubljana, a member of Kolektiv Narobov, the artistic director of the Naked Stage, a member of the international performing group Orcas Island Project, a member of the feministic Mary Shelley’s Mothers collective and the artistic co-director of the project Along the Walk. She has worked in various different projects and mediums, from clown theatre, scripted theatre and contemporary dance to radio, television and film – but her main focus, passion and frustration has always been improvisation.
The performance is in Slovene, English and more.
Tickets will only be available at the box office at the Old Power Station.
Life. Refabricated. is a regular meeting on stage of Maja Dekleva Lapajne and Norbert Sven Fö, observing and exploring the meeting points of theatre and dance improvisation, wandering off into clowning, enjoying some sound and music making and, last but not least, refabricating life. All this stage endeavor is fueled by close friendship and powered by passion for creating games. Each such event is focused on a particular theme which is sticking out at the time of the meeting. Reflecting on the theme while performing and doing so by using the medium of performing, the artists reflect not only on the theme, but as well on performing, relation to the public, stage as medium and life itself.
Norbert Sven Fö is a member of DISCOllective that researches playfulness in a role of a dancer, choreographer, performer, clown, teacher, writer, producer, among many; and in formats like performance, dance, play, game, event, choreography, social experiment, installation, lecture, workshop, class, publication, clown act, video, score, among many.
Maja Dekleva Lapajne is a director and a performer from Ljubljana, a member of Kolektiv Narobov, the artistic director of the Naked Stage, a member of the international performing group Orcas Island Project, a member of the feministic Mary Shelley’s Mothers collective and the artistic co-director of the project Along the Walk. She has worked in various different projects and mediums, from clown theatre, scripted theatre and contemporary dance to radio, television and film – but her main focus, passion and frustration has always been improvisation.
Photo: Bojan Matjašič
Friday, October 28 at 9pm: Better Together
Concept and performing: Rama Nicholas, Adam McKenzie
Music: Goran Završnik
Lights: Borut Cajnko
The performance is in English.
Tickets
Better Together is a brand new improvised work by Rama Nicholas and Adam McKenzie, premiering at the Naked Stage. This show aims to explore relationship dynamics, social politics and human flaws. Rama and Adam are both masterful narrative improvisers but as individuals couldn't be more opposite. Through their differences they aim to explore the intersection between character and story, weaving tales that reflect real life. From comedic to the dramatic Rama and Adam will take you on a rollercoaster ride inside the human condition. Did we mention they are married?
Coming all the way from Melbourne, Australia, Rama Nicholas and Adam McKenzie have been together for 10 years and as a couple they collaborate on almost every creative project they do. With decades of experience as actors, comedians, improvisers, writers and directors, these multi award winning performers are finally coming together to do their first improvised duo show. Adam comes from a sketch comedy background and has his roots in impro comedy. Rama trained as an actor and became an improviser and comedian soon after. Adam is an energetic and eternally positive nerd. Rama is an introvert with a sharp wit and is a fiery feminist. Back in the day, Adam and Rama were from rival impro troupes in Melbourne but nothing would stop this charismatic couple from getting together and falling in love. Even though stylistically they are quite different, these two performers share common ground through a shared love and passion for storytelling, strong characters, bold scene work, laughter and of course... each other.
Goran Završnik learnt piano as a child and after three years he ran from music school and never came back. Then he discovered the synthesizer with lots of buttons and everything became fun again. Now, after thirty years, he works with incredibly interesting impro artists and groups, musically co-creating events like the Improvision Song Contest in Ljubljana and Graz, Moment festival in Vienna or Improvention festival in Canberra, Australia. He is trying to push the right button or key at the right moment, not to interrupt too much the almighty impro actors on stage. The best accompanying music, they say, is music you don’t hear. But sometimes impro musicians need to be loud and full of initiative. From a punk singer and a keyboard player in a high school band of the Yugoslavian Army to the biggest (110 kg) Slovenian impro theatre musician.
Music: Goran Završnik
Lights: Borut Cajnko
The performance is in English.
Tickets
Better Together is a brand new improvised work by Rama Nicholas and Adam McKenzie, premiering at the Naked Stage. This show aims to explore relationship dynamics, social politics and human flaws. Rama and Adam are both masterful narrative improvisers but as individuals couldn't be more opposite. Through their differences they aim to explore the intersection between character and story, weaving tales that reflect real life. From comedic to the dramatic Rama and Adam will take you on a rollercoaster ride inside the human condition. Did we mention they are married?
Coming all the way from Melbourne, Australia, Rama Nicholas and Adam McKenzie have been together for 10 years and as a couple they collaborate on almost every creative project they do. With decades of experience as actors, comedians, improvisers, writers and directors, these multi award winning performers are finally coming together to do their first improvised duo show. Adam comes from a sketch comedy background and has his roots in impro comedy. Rama trained as an actor and became an improviser and comedian soon after. Adam is an energetic and eternally positive nerd. Rama is an introvert with a sharp wit and is a fiery feminist. Back in the day, Adam and Rama were from rival impro troupes in Melbourne but nothing would stop this charismatic couple from getting together and falling in love. Even though stylistically they are quite different, these two performers share common ground through a shared love and passion for storytelling, strong characters, bold scene work, laughter and of course... each other.
Goran Završnik learnt piano as a child and after three years he ran from music school and never came back. Then he discovered the synthesizer with lots of buttons and everything became fun again. Now, after thirty years, he works with incredibly interesting impro artists and groups, musically co-creating events like the Improvision Song Contest in Ljubljana and Graz, Moment festival in Vienna or Improvention festival in Canberra, Australia. He is trying to push the right button or key at the right moment, not to interrupt too much the almighty impro actors on stage. The best accompanying music, they say, is music you don’t hear. But sometimes impro musicians need to be loud and full of initiative. From a punk singer and a keyboard player in a high school band of the Yugoslavian Army to the biggest (110 kg) Slovenian impro theatre musician.
Saturday, October 29 at 5pm: When You Are Someone, You Are So
Concept and performing: Žana Dolenc Čučnik, Gaja Gorenc, Jitske Hartmans, Lovro Jug, Martin Kerin, Nina Koritnik, Anteja Mugerle, Alica Muratović Romih, Žan Razboršek, Eva Režek, Mateja Strle, Indija Stropnik, Blažka Šifrar, Dominika Tekavc, Naomi Uma Zorman
Mentors: Liza Berden, Mojca Frim, Doroteja Jemec, Jošt Jesenovec, Mistral Majer
Artistic direction: Doroteja Jemec in Jošt Jesenovec
Lights: Borut Cajnko
Production: ŠILA – High School Impro League
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets
At the beginning of July 2022, a group of high school students with a few mentors travelled to the wilderness next to the dried-up river Dragonja and explored impro in all its dimensions among wild boars. With the lack of everyday luxuries, solidarity developed and they quickly went from strangers to friends. And that is why it is not surprising that the topic of friendship came up again and again. They decided to explore this topic on stage as well. They are interested in many things: what do the closest friendships look like, when it is the right time to show a mirror to someone, how to get through difficult times and how to celebrate important life events together… For most of the performers, this is the first longform show, the first departure from short impro games and the first deep improvisational research. On the other hand they already have lots of experience with friendships.
ŠILA – High School Impro League is a theatre improvisation program for cultural and artistic engagement of high school students. It has been operating continuously since 1997 and it takes care of education, socializing and theatrical engagement of young people. Around 350 high school students participate in the project every year.
Mentors: Liza Berden, Mojca Frim, Doroteja Jemec, Jošt Jesenovec, Mistral Majer
Artistic direction: Doroteja Jemec in Jošt Jesenovec
Lights: Borut Cajnko
Production: ŠILA – High School Impro League
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets
At the beginning of July 2022, a group of high school students with a few mentors travelled to the wilderness next to the dried-up river Dragonja and explored impro in all its dimensions among wild boars. With the lack of everyday luxuries, solidarity developed and they quickly went from strangers to friends. And that is why it is not surprising that the topic of friendship came up again and again. They decided to explore this topic on stage as well. They are interested in many things: what do the closest friendships look like, when it is the right time to show a mirror to someone, how to get through difficult times and how to celebrate important life events together… For most of the performers, this is the first longform show, the first departure from short impro games and the first deep improvisational research. On the other hand they already have lots of experience with friendships.
ŠILA – High School Impro League is a theatre improvisation program for cultural and artistic engagement of high school students. It has been operating continuously since 1997 and it takes care of education, socializing and theatrical engagement of young people. Around 350 high school students participate in the project every year.
Saturday, October 29 at 7pm: Confrontations
Concept and directing: Vid Sodnik
Performing: Juš Milčinski, Peter Frankl
Music: Urh Mlakar
Lights: Borut Cajnko
Production: KD IGLU – Improvisational Theatre Ljubljana
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets
"Everyday life can positively surprise us or relentlessly crush us. Coincidence or fate? Well, it doesn't matter. We are where we are. And instead of being burdened by the imminent, let's focus on the things we have influence on."
Vid Sodnik
The performers Juš Milčinski and Peter Frankl, together with the musician Urh Mlakar, step into the stories of two people who have had a hard life. Each of them faces the tragedy in a different way - by thinking and rethinking, by searching for consultations, by writing and, last but not least, by singing. When emotions are too strong to be expressed in words and movements, they turn into melody.
Juš Milčinski is an improviser, actor and producer, co-founder of IGLU Theatre, which is celebrating its 10th season this year. Juš works as an improviser and pedagog within the IGLU Theatre, as an actor in the tv show Osvežilna fronta and as a host of the tv quiz show Male sive celice. He is one of the most active producers in the field of improvisational theatre in Slovenia and occasionally works as a director of theatre performances for young people. As an improviser, he visited many impro theatres in Europe and North America.
Peter Frankl is an improviser, musician, dancer and performer, co-founder of the IGLU Theatre. He works as a teacher, actor and performer in theatre productions and in the tv show Osvežilna fronta on RTV Slovenija. He is well-known for his work within the music band SBO. As an improviser, he has visited many festivals in Europe and North America.
Urh Mlakar is a rapper, improviser, actor and versatile musician and music producer. As a rapper, he works under the stage name UM, either as a solo artist or as a part of the freestyle rap duo UM & Kuna. As an improviser he performed in the High School Impro League and at the Maestro shows. As an actor he often participates in productions for children and youth at Pionirski dom.
Vid Sodnik is an improviser, actor and director, co-founder of the IGLU Theatre. He is one of the most internationally active improvisers in Slovenia. As an actor he works in the tv show
Osvežilna fronta on RTV Slovenija. He also directs performances with Slovenian youth groups in Carinthia, Austria.
Performing: Juš Milčinski, Peter Frankl
Music: Urh Mlakar
Lights: Borut Cajnko
Production: KD IGLU – Improvisational Theatre Ljubljana
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets
"Everyday life can positively surprise us or relentlessly crush us. Coincidence or fate? Well, it doesn't matter. We are where we are. And instead of being burdened by the imminent, let's focus on the things we have influence on."
Vid Sodnik
The performers Juš Milčinski and Peter Frankl, together with the musician Urh Mlakar, step into the stories of two people who have had a hard life. Each of them faces the tragedy in a different way - by thinking and rethinking, by searching for consultations, by writing and, last but not least, by singing. When emotions are too strong to be expressed in words and movements, they turn into melody.
Juš Milčinski is an improviser, actor and producer, co-founder of IGLU Theatre, which is celebrating its 10th season this year. Juš works as an improviser and pedagog within the IGLU Theatre, as an actor in the tv show Osvežilna fronta and as a host of the tv quiz show Male sive celice. He is one of the most active producers in the field of improvisational theatre in Slovenia and occasionally works as a director of theatre performances for young people. As an improviser, he visited many impro theatres in Europe and North America.
Peter Frankl is an improviser, musician, dancer and performer, co-founder of the IGLU Theatre. He works as a teacher, actor and performer in theatre productions and in the tv show Osvežilna fronta on RTV Slovenija. He is well-known for his work within the music band SBO. As an improviser, he has visited many festivals in Europe and North America.
Urh Mlakar is a rapper, improviser, actor and versatile musician and music producer. As a rapper, he works under the stage name UM, either as a solo artist or as a part of the freestyle rap duo UM & Kuna. As an improviser he performed in the High School Impro League and at the Maestro shows. As an actor he often participates in productions for children and youth at Pionirski dom.
Vid Sodnik is an improviser, actor and director, co-founder of the IGLU Theatre. He is one of the most internationally active improvisers in Slovenia. As an actor he works in the tv show
Osvežilna fronta on RTV Slovenija. He also directs performances with Slovenian youth groups in Carinthia, Austria.
Photo: Rok Petelin
Saturday, October 29 at 9pm: Close To You
Concept and directing: Rama Nicholas
Video and music: Adam McKenzie
Performing: Eva Jus, Gonzalo Piñán, Jošt Jesenovec, Katarina Veselko, Luka Piletič, Ollie Rasini, Paula Galimberti, Teodora Švet, Tomaž Lapajne Dekleva, Vid Sodnik
Lights: Borut Cajnko
The performance is in English.
Tickets
An improvisational performance on romantic love, intimacy, passion and sexual attraction, which will be created during the festival with the strong commitment of the international festival ensemble under the precise and sensitive direction of the Australian artist Rama Nicholas.
This intimate performance courageously draws back the veil on our secret lives and loves and gives us the chance to glimpse love in its rawest form, improvised on stage. That warm and fuzzy feeling only a new love can invoke, candid conversations about sex, the ups and downs of lasting relationships, the passion, the craving, the break ups, the broken hearts and the electrifying tension of desire. Like all great love stories – Close to You will leave us wanting more.
Rama Nicholas is an actress, director, filmmaker, improviser and teacher from Melbourne who has been internationally active for over 25 years. She is the creator of improvisational formats Close to You, The Wishing Tree and The Travellers, with which she travels international festivals of theatre improvisation in Australia, Europe and the United States and stages fresh performances each time with international festival casts. In recent years, she is mainly devoted to themes of intimacy and sexuality in her performances, she teaches workshops on the topic of physical contact and issues of safety, trust and consent. She also works as an intimacy coordinator in film, television and theatre productions. She is a member of the international theatre group Orcas Island Project and a member of the feminist performing arts collective Mary Shelley's Mothers.
Video and music: Adam McKenzie
Performing: Eva Jus, Gonzalo Piñán, Jošt Jesenovec, Katarina Veselko, Luka Piletič, Ollie Rasini, Paula Galimberti, Teodora Švet, Tomaž Lapajne Dekleva, Vid Sodnik
Lights: Borut Cajnko
The performance is in English.
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An improvisational performance on romantic love, intimacy, passion and sexual attraction, which will be created during the festival with the strong commitment of the international festival ensemble under the precise and sensitive direction of the Australian artist Rama Nicholas.
This intimate performance courageously draws back the veil on our secret lives and loves and gives us the chance to glimpse love in its rawest form, improvised on stage. That warm and fuzzy feeling only a new love can invoke, candid conversations about sex, the ups and downs of lasting relationships, the passion, the craving, the break ups, the broken hearts and the electrifying tension of desire. Like all great love stories – Close to You will leave us wanting more.
Rama Nicholas is an actress, director, filmmaker, improviser and teacher from Melbourne who has been internationally active for over 25 years. She is the creator of improvisational formats Close to You, The Wishing Tree and The Travellers, with which she travels international festivals of theatre improvisation in Australia, Europe and the United States and stages fresh performances each time with international festival casts. In recent years, she is mainly devoted to themes of intimacy and sexuality in her performances, she teaches workshops on the topic of physical contact and issues of safety, trust and consent. She also works as an intimacy coordinator in film, television and theatre productions. She is a member of the international theatre group Orcas Island Project and a member of the feminist performing arts collective Mary Shelley's Mothers.