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51st Week of Slovenian Drama

The Game

Maska Ljubljana and Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Ljubljana

Crew

Director: Žiga Divjak

Dramaturgical collaborator: Katarina Morano

Research assistant: Maja Ava Žiberna

Set designer: Igor Vasiljev

Costume designer: Tina Pavlović

Composer, sound and video designer: Blaž Gracar

Language consultant: Mateja Dermelj

Lighting designer, stage and props manager: Igor Remeta

Assistant directors: Ana Lorger and Nika Prusnik Kardum

Translation of the recording: Barbara Skubic

Producer and stage manager: Tina Dobnik

Cast

Primož Bezjak

Sara Dirnbek

Maruša Oblak

Matej Puc

Vito Weis

On the recording: Hamza Aziz, Zaher Amini, Khalid Ali, Behnaz Aliesfahanipour

About the performance

The text of the performance is based on the testimonies from the Border Violence Monitoring Network Database. 

People who have walked across half of the world to escape wars, persecution, violence and crushing poverty, call the last stretch of their route, the stretch that takes them from Bosnia and Herzegovina to a safe destination in the European Union, the game.

The game has no rules, laws don’t apply, the powers of the police is limitless, the violence increasingly brutal, the dangers increasingly more dangerous, the possibilities smaller and smaller, and the destination further and further … Many try several times, even twenty or thirty times; it’s a numbers game.

For many, the game is fatal. Available records show that around twenty people have thus far lost their lives on our borders.

The Game, a devised theatre project, studies the role and responsibility of Slovenia and its border policy for lives and fates of the people on the run.

*The text is summarized from the webpage of the performance.

"One after another the stories accumulate […]; meanwhile these narratives are becoming more and more horrifying […] – and frightful. But this is not a performance that wants to please – in fact, this rigidity slowly reveals the system’s complete indifference to the legal and ethical principles, which is steadily spreading to our own doorsteps. " (Gregor Butala, Dnevnik, 17 June 2020)

Première: 10. 6. 2020

The production is 1 hour and 45 minutes long and has no interval.

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The Game <em>Photo: Matej Povše</em>
Photo: Matej Povše
The Game <em>Photo: Matej Povše</em>
Photo: Matej Povše
The Game <em>Photo: Matej Povše</em>
Photo: Matej Povše

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