Nataša Rajković, Bobo Jelčić | z|k|m| | Croatia


Subtle street theatre with first row seats
Shop windows attract attention and turn odds and ends into desirable objects. Izlog is turning the tables and directs the viewer’s gaze from a storefront in Braunschweig out into the street. The storefront becomes the auditorium, the street becomes the stage, and the ordinary becomes exceptional. People walk along the street. Public transport develops a rhythmic accompaniment that only becomes visible after looking at it for an extended period of time. Some people walk more quickly than others, and only a few stop briefly. Whose path accidentally happens to lead past the shop window, and what is staged? As in a picture puzzle, Izlog stimulates the eye for the exceptional. Here is the evidence that public urban space is full of rules. Anyone who disregards these rules provokes gazes or awkward looks of embarrassment. And while the audience looks out, the spectators themselves and their looks become exhibits, seated in the shop window for all to see.
Nataša Rajković and Bobo Jelčić have been writing and directing their own plays since 1996. The observation of boundaries between theatre and everyday life provide the basis of their subtly elaborated productions. The duo from Zagreb has already guested with Theaterformen in Braunschweig: in 2002 they performed their award-winning productions Verlangsamung and Eine unsichere Geschichte.

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With Petra Bokić, Grga Bokić, Nenad Borović, Maja Bosnić, Vjekoslav Domini, Krešo Hruškar Jerko Marčić, Rajka Petrinović, Marija Poturić, Alemka Sappe, Želimir Sappe, Michaela-Pascale Boehlke, Christa Holzhauer, Wolfgang Jahns, Rainer Klingenberg, Stefan Krense, Dagmar Luhmann, Silvia Schönberg, Wilhelm Schulze-Marmeling, Dagmar Schumacher Conceived and directed by Nataša Rajković, Bobo Jelčić Director's assistant Ana Suntešić Costumes z|k|m| Stage Manager Maja Bosnić Produced by z|k|m|