Exercises for Anxiety

Slovene Permanent Theatre Trieste / Slovensko stalno gledališče Trst

Original title Vaje za tesnobo

Première 16. 11. 2012 Big Stage, Slovene Permanent Theatre Trieste

Running time 1 hour and 35 minutes with no interval


Director Jaka Andrej Vojevec     
Dramaturg Nika Leskovšek 
Stage Designer and Selector of Music Jaka Andrej Vojevec 
Costume Designer Branka Pavlič 
Répétiteur and Voice Coach Irena Tomažin
Language Consultant Jože Faganel
Lighting Designer Peter Korošic 
Sound Designer Diego Sedmak

Cast
Policeman, Security Guard, Younger Worker Romeo Grebenšek
Girl Tina Gunzek
Šefika Lara Komar
Human Resources Officer, Emir Franko Korošec
Older Worker, Man in Suit Vladimir Jurc 
Daughter and also Wife Maja Blagovič
Boy in suit, Voice Primož Forte
Girl in jogging suit Tjaša Hrovat
Technicians Alen Kermac, Marko Škabar

Consisting of short verbally dense scenes, this production depicts the new-age neoliberal everyday life in which we strive to catch our lives and the future between brutality, banality, and the desire for salvation. The breakneck speed of montage of dramatic situations opens a panorama of today’s reality, an unveiled and unbeautified world in which everything has its price. And this is the world in which life stories of individuals – who are no other than us – are being intertwined.
Exercises in Anxiety stems from the concept of "exercise”, an unfinished moment, everything is happening here and now. The dramatic lightness of today’s time, in which everything can be bought and in which people have become passive and blinded victims of string-pullers in leading positions, is a well-known story in which we feel so much at home …

Photo: Žiga Koritnik

Photo: Žiga Koritnik

Photo: Žiga Koritnik

Photo: Žiga Koritnik