Class Enemy (Re-/de-/construction)

Mladinsko Theatre

Running time 1 hour and 45 minutes. No interval.
Première: 8 December 2011, Lower Stage, Mladinsko Theatre

Performance is supertitled in English.

Translator of original text by Class Enemy by Nigel Williams Valentin Duša
Author of concept and director Borut Šeparović
Dramaturg Tomaž Toporišič
Authors of text Nigel Williams, Vito Taufer, Borut Šeparović
Set and costume designer Protunapad
Sound technician Marijan Sajovic
Lighting technicians Albert Bolha, David Cvelbar
Make-up designer Barbara Pavlin
Language consultant Barbara Rogelj
Movement consultant Nataša Mihoci
Video technician Dušan Ojdanič
Stage manager Janez Pavlovičič
Assistants Sanja Spahić, Tina Malič
Author of the 1982 performance recording Tone Stojko

 

Cast
Iron, Battelino Boris Kos
Nipper, Zidar Uroš Maček
Sky-light, Ropoša Uroš Kaurin
Sweetheart, Rakovec Blaž Šef
Racks, Mlačnik Marko Mlačnik
Snatch, Hrs Željko Hrs

Class Enemy, the cult production of the generation of the 1980s directed by Vito Taufer in 1982, has virtually transformed the Lower Stage of the Mladinsko Theatre into a battlefield and echoed still for a long time in the heads of spectators. Thirty years later it is being re-/de-/constructed – a sort of returning to the crime site. The production explores the significance and the symbolic potential of class enemies in all senses and the embodiments of that syntagm. The central question is: Under what conditions and with what possible effects and long-term consequences might violence be the generator of structural changes in a society permeated with apathy and a total lack of initiative? Who is the class enemy today? Who are our exploiters?