Bara Kolenc and Atej Tutta
Metamorphoses 3º: Retorika
Foto: Atej Tutta
Kud Samosvoj in coproduction with Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Kud Pozitiv, Plesna Izba Maribor and cooperation with M.I.K.K. Murska Sobota, Zavod DrMr, KC Mostovna
Premiere: 10. 9. 2015, Katedrala, Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Ljubljana, Slovenia
International Premiere: 18. 5. 2016, 53. Theatertreffen, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
Running time 1 hour 30 minutes. No interval.
Author of concept and realization Bara Kolenc and Atej Tutta
Performers Sanja Nešković Peršin, Bara Kolenc, Rebeka Radovan, Jošt Pengov-Taraniš, Matej Markovič
Dramaturg Pia Brezavšček
Lighting designers Peter Pivar, Gregor Smrdelj
Sound designers Jernej Černalogar, Jure Vlahovič
Author of the Rumours Song Matevž Kolenc
Make-up designer Anja Cojhter
Technical support Radovan Jaušovec
Executive producers Bara Kolenc, Julia Danila
PR Mojca Zupanič, Rok Avbar
When man opened his mouth, he fell silent. When he spoke out, he lied. When he swore, the word became an act. When he repeated, he believed. When he doubted, he lost his voice.
This is the third performance in the Metamorphoses 1º- 5º series, a multi-year modular project including not only performances but also other artistic and theoretical formats. Each of the five parts enters a broader context of Ovid’s Metamorphoses on the basis of particular current political or social events, connecting them to the universal topics of humanity and deep contradictions of contemporary human beings. Inspired by Ovid’s passage on The House of Rumour (Metamorphoses, XXII. book), Metamorphoses 3º: RETORIKA examines the field of language and communication and enters this field through an artistic articulation of rhetoric, a specific skill that already Aristotle named the art of persuasion. The performance discloses the mechanisms of political, judicial and media rhetoric through the construction of the icon Dr. Love Prenner referencing the real-life story of the highly moral and politically controversial Dr. Ljuba Prenner, a transsexual attorney in post-war Yugoslavia. As an icon, Love Prenner today stands for the questions about the (im)possibility of Europe.
Foto: Atej Tutta
Foto: Atej Tutta
Foto: Atej Tutta
