Learned Cunts or Let the World Hum

Naslov izvirnika Les Femmes Savantes

Running time 1 hour and 15 minutes. No interval.
Première: 16 January 2012, AGRFT, Ljubljana

Translator of the original Josip Vidmar
Director and author of adaptation Daniel Day Škufica
Dramaturgs Katarina Košir, Dino Pešut
Composer Ilija Ota
Costume designers Anja Kerk, Klavdija Jeršinovec
Set Design Collective

Cast
Trissotin Matija Rupel
Filaminta Ana Urbanc
Armanda Liza Marija Grašič
Henrieta Lucija Tratnik
Klitander Benjamin Krnetić
L’Epine Nejc Cijan Garlatti
Darius Daniel Day Škufica

Mentors
Dramatic Acting and Theatre Directing
Prof. Jožica Avbelj
Doc. Jernej Lorenci

Dramaturgy
Doc. Blaž Lukan, Ph.D

Set Design
Doc. Jasna Vastl, M.A.

Costume Design
Associate Prof. Janja Korun
Assistant Prof. Tina Kolenik, M.A.

Language and Speech
Doc. Katarina Podbevšek, Ph.D

Artists, one against another, one for another, and together against all. Artists who wish for a world deprived of people who don’t understand their art. Artists whose minds are bedazzled by Dionysus – that is, the creative force itself – so now they don’t see anything, their eyes blinded by their own egos. In brief: it’s really wild.

The performance is based on two cornerstones: the associative model, in which the text and the situation escape the sense here and there producing as many associations and interpretations as possible; and the quotation model, in which almost each scene is built on the basis of a more or less recognisable contemporary source, which is then established, that is, quoted in the scene through images, acting, scenography, costume, text, or objects. Similar to quotations, associations are open, minimally guided and entirely in the hands of the imagination and the spirit of the individual. After all, the aim of this performance is not to take an intellectual or superior position but to go with to the flow and have fun. And if someone manages to take home something more, all the better for him.