Drop Dead

Solo performance by Katarina Stegnar

Producer Via Negativa 
Opening 17. 10. 2010 Festival City of Woman, Ljubljana
Running time 1 hour. No interval.

Conceived and written by Katarina Stegnar, Bojan Jablanovec
Performer Katarina Stegnar
Director Bojan Jablanovec
Music selection by Katarina Stegnar
Costume designer Mateja Benedetti
Lighting designer Igor Remeta
 

Death is a profoundly intimate but at the same time extremely spectacular sensation. The performance enacts both its faces: first, the intimate struggle of a dying person: "They told me I would go through 3 stages: the first is denial, the second is anger, and finally acceptance;” and, second, death as the ultimate spectacle experienced by those watching from the outside. Drop Dead is a play in which we all must take our parts: the performer becomes a corpse, the audience becomes the undertaker and the performance becomes a funeral. "What would you like to eat for your last dinner? Where would you like to be buried? How should they bury you? Who should come to the funeral? Who should deliver your funeral speech? Which song should be played at your funeral? What are your last words?” These are the questions that Katarina gives to the selected viewer who at the end of this short conversation dies in her lap. Of course, the audience doesn’t believe it’s true, but this is not the issue here. This prologue is about the idea of death – this is what we all believe in.