Oliver Frljić | Mladinsko Theater | Slovenia


An impertinent Balkan revue
Sooner or later, everyone here will be gunned down. Oliver Frljićs play is irate, unsettling and sometimes shocking. The performers are themselves on the stage - actors, Slovenians, contemporary witnesses of the war in Yugoslavia and its consequences. And there they undergo numerous stage deaths. However, the undead of recent history always come back to life. They play music; they pose in the flags of former Yugoslavia; they sing sentimental songs; they remember Tito's death; they abuse, suspect, denounce, and accuse each other; they insult the audience and joke around: "What? It's only fiction. Theatre. Props." The last verse of the former Yugoslavian national anthem is the title and starting point of Oliver Frljićs' brutally honest examination of the causes and consequences of the Balkan Wars. The young Croatian director has created a furore with his passionate yet candid works. His production is loud, entertaining and fast - and borders on pain. It can only be taken personally.

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"We have seen a true, committed, important, rude, political, post-dramatic, post-modern theatre, dealing with us and the time we are living in. (...) The question posed by the play is the question of all questions - the question of responsibility."
Radio Belgrad, Goran Cvetković, 12. Mai 2010

With Primož Bezjak, Olga Grad, Uroš Kaurin, Boris Kos, Uroš Maček, Draga Potočnjak, Matej Recer, Romana Šalehar, Dario Varga, Matija Vastl Director Oliver Frljić Dramaturgy Borut Šeparović, Tomaž Toporišič Set and costumes, selection of music Oliver Frljić Assistant director and choreographic advice Matjaž Farič Sound Silvo Zupančič Lighting Oliver Frljić, Tomaž Štrucl Stage manager Urša Červ. The text of the performance is based on the improvisations of the actors.