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Katja Hensel

Heads or Tails

Heads or Tails <em>Photo: atelje Pavšič - Zavadlav</em>

Photo: atelje Pavšič - Zavadlav

Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica, Cultural-Artistic Association Pozitiv Ljubljana and Art Grammar School Nova Gorica

Running time 1 hour 15 minutes. No interval.
Première: 29 September 2011, Small Stage, Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica
First Slovene production

Original title Kopf oder Zahl

Director Marko Bulc
Translator and dramaturg Urška Brodar
Stage designer Damir Leventić
Costume designer Mateja Benedetti
Composer Valterap
Choreographer Sebastijan Starič
Lighting designer Samo Oblokar


Cast
Christoph Medea Novak
Others Arna Hadžialjević


Actress, director, and playwright Katja Hensel has investigated in Berlin and Nicosia what teenagers think about violence. Her collected materials were the base for the text Heads or Tails commissioned by Theater an der Parkaue Berlin and THOC Theatre in Cyprus as part of the larger project "Young Europe – Young Creation and Education in Theatre” carried out by the European Theatre Convention. The original text served to the authors as the material that they altered and adapted for the Slovene space where fighting in schoolyards is gradually becoming daily news, at a moment when it seems we have no more leverage to deal with violence in schools, society, and our everyday life.