Staging a Play: The Glass Menagerie

Emanat Institute and Matija Ferlin with partners: Bunker, Ljubljana / The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana, Mediterranean Dance Center - San Vincenti, Croatia, Pre-School Education and Grammar School Ljubljana

Première: 10. 12. 2015, Old Power Station Ljubljana
Running time 1 hour 25 minutes. No interval.

Author of concept and director Matija Ferlin
Performers and choreographers Loup Abramovici, Anja Bornšek, Maja Delak, Matija Ferlin, Žigan Krajnčan
Dramaturg Goran Ferčec
Set designer Mauricio Ferlin
Author of music Luka Prinčič
Costume designer Matija Ferlin
Creator of make-up and hair styling Tinka Pobalinka
Lighting and technical director Saša Fistrić
Designer Tina Ivezić
Photographer Nada Žgank
Organizator Nina Janež
Executive producer Sabina Potočki

In Staging a Play: The Glass Menagerie, inspired by Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie, Matija Ferlin explores the area between the abstract dancing body and the conventions of theatre language. Together with four dancers, Ferlin confronts an almost impossible task: to try to re-discover theatricality through the potential stemming out of the juxtaposition of body and text. The stage establishes the possibility of disclosing tensions between the questioning of theatre conventions and the releasing new imaginations. "We read the text and we speak it out. When we tackle a dramatic work, do we always need to stage the written word as a spoken word? Or does the body have the freedom to find a different inner apparatus with which it articulates the spoken word? Is it possible that the tool that is considered secondary in classical theatre becomes primary?” Matija Ferlin.

Photo: Nada Žgank

Photo: Nada Žgank

Photo: Nada Žgank

Photo: Nada Žgank