The content of Oh, How Very Ordinary comes from the personal stories / fragments / autobiographical motifs of the authors and from short stories by Katherine Mansfield, especially Bliss.
Sunday, 12. 12. at 20:00 / pre-premiere
Monday, 13. 12. at 20:00 / premiere
The play uses Slovenian, Serbian and English. Sound from the podcast Agelast (Galeb Nikačević) is used with author’s permission.
Shot 1:
She is sitting at a large table. Hastily eating a sandwich. Almost like in Antonioni. And Herbie Hancock is actually playing. On YouTube, on the phone. No, she is not a victim of the male perspective, the shot was not planned by a male director who glorifies the captivity and suffering of a woman. She is looking at us, moving her hips. She is enjoying herself.
Shot 2:
A woman in a green tailored dress and a woman in a white dress stand in the room. Small colourful flags hang above them, balloons are hung in the corner of the room. In front of them is a table full of champagne glasses. They have colourful cleaning rags in their hands. Orange and pink. They are cleaning the glasses with them. Eagerly. But they are not rushing.
Shot 3:
A large table, covered with a plastic pink tablecloth. There are plastic furniture covers on the floor (used when you paint an apartment, for example). On the table are a knife, a board, a large bowl, stalks and tomato leftovers. No one is there. Diagonally to the right behind the table is a vacuum cleaner that is turned on.
The content of Oh, How Very Ordinary comes from the personal stories / fragments / autobiographical motifs of the authors and from short stories by Katherine Mansfield, especially Bliss.
It is about the clearing up of two women, their confrontation with the reality of the life they live. This confrontation is mostly uncomfortable. It demolishes their dreams, illusions, their myths about the world, about themselves. At the same time, this landing on the ground is also witty and somehow more vibrant than anything before. As if it were a transition to a new maturity, adulthood, and taking on responsibility where it had so far been possible to shift it, to pass it on to someone out there. Their reality, this life of theirs – as they see it without the web of illusion – is ordinary, boring, full of non-glamorous obligations in which there seems to be not much meaning and value. In this everyday life, however, meaning and value arise, fantasy and art, the sublime experience of being. It takes place in the banalities.
The play is colourful and eclectic: from rock ’n’ roll excess, hoarding and abundance to total stops, gaps, idling; from autobiography to literary fiction; from film to dance to theatre.
The play is a celebration. That is why it contains music, dancing, balloons, cocktails and champagne …
Authorship and performance: Bojana Robinson, Katja Legin and guests
Dramaturgical eye: Zala Dobovšek
Interlocutors in the process: Tomi Janežič, Tomaž Grom, Urša Vidic, Dimitrije Kokanov
Music selection: Katja Legin
Executive producer: Tjaša Črnigoj
Production: Studio for Research into the Art of Acting
Coproduction: Kino Šiška
Partners: DUM, Španski Borci
Thanks: Tomi Janežič, Matt Robinson, Petra Hazabent, Stanka Babnik, Nataša Recer, Mateja Bučar
Financial support: Mestna občina Ljubljana – Oddelek za kulturo
Tickets on sale online and at Eventim outlets.
BON21
Tickets can also be purchased with the BON21 voucher at the Kino Šiška box office from Monday to Friday between 3 and 8 PM or on the day of the event. You can read more about the requirements for using the voucher on the Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia website.
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