Saint Joan of the Stockyards
Italian company ErosAntEros and Slovenia’s Mladinsko Theatre join forces for a maximalist production of Brecht’s play with live music performed by Laibach.
Karolina Bugajak is a theater critic from Poland, currently living in Ljubljana. She studied culture and contemporary art at the University of Lodz. The title of her master's thesis was "Theatricality and Exaggeration. Camp aesthetics as a strategy for creating new identities in the plays of Grzegorz Jaremko". Her main theatrical interests include topics such as institutional criticism, the representation of marginalized groups in plays, and most recently the theater of the former Yugoslav states.
Mladi Levi Festival: A breath of fresh air for the Slovenian scene
Karolina Bugajak on the 27th edition of the Mladi Levi Festival, which took place this August in Ljubljana, its innovative international programme and the festival as a political space
Tjaša Črnigoj: “Women’s sexual pleasure is still taboo in our society”
Director Tjaša Črnigoj on Sex Education II, her lecture performance about women’s sexual pleasure, and how psychotherapy informs her work.
Slovenia Counts
Sebastian Nübling and musician Jackie Poloni’s intensely physical devised piece about what it feels like to be Slovenian.
Sex Education II
Informative and engagingly presented five-part lecture performance series exploring different facets of female pleasure at the New Post Office.
Michał Borczuch: “When one side remains silent, the other side may get loud”
Polish director Michał Borczuch talks to Karolina Bugajak about his production of The Argonauts based on the book by Maggie Nelson, putting queer stories on stage and the differences between the Polish and Slovenian theatre scenes.
The Last Fiction Piece
Director Boris Nikitin’s layered exploration of truth, faith and theatre at the Mladinsko Theatre is half sermon, half TEDtalk