Freedom

Glej Theatre

Première: 18 January 2014, Gledališče Glej Ljubljana
Running time approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes. No interval.

Based on Ivan Cankar's essay White Chrysanthemum

Director Miha Golob
Lighting designer and technical director Grega Mohorčič
Technical support Martin Lovšin

Performer
Branko Jordan

Everything that seemed promising twenty years ago has turned into dust. Disclosed its real face. Trivial and politicised. The lack of ethics and morality is embedded into all the pores of society. The state operates according to the principles of the Mafia, corruption, clientelism and elitism. On all levels. Vertical and horizontal. Economy, legislation, journalism, health care, education … and what about culture and theatre? Do they have the power and the right to hold the mirror against society and throw a stone?
Director M.G., forcefully released eight years ago, and actor B. J., who earned himself a new freedom as of 1 January 2014, meet on the same stage fifteen years later. Schoolmates, roommates, collaborators and friends. Adequate circumstances, an adequate environment and a time for revision. A time for the mirror and the stone. A time for a performance, supported by Cankar’s White Chrysanthemum. A performance about freedom, freedom of spirit and thought, freedom of survival, the artist’s freedom and the freedom of art, a performance about responsibility.

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Photo: Uroš Abram

Photo: Uroš Abram

Photo: Uroš Abram

Photo: Uroš Abram