Season of Love and Such Things starting at Mladinsko Theatre
Ljubljana, 8 September - The Mladinsko theatre (SMG) in Ljubljana will explore the phenomenon of love and the anatomy of hatred towards different kinds of love in its 68th season, dubbed Season of Love and Such Things. The season will open in October with Tony Kushner's play Angels in America.
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Presentation of the 68th season of the Mladinsko theatre.
Photo: Kaja Kodba/STA
Directed by Nina Rajić Kranjac, the opening play with the subtitle A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is considered the "canon of the late 20th century and an authentic artistic manifesto of the era accumulating the excess of history", the theatre says on its website.
In December, The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson will be put on stage by Tomasz Spiewak and Michal Borczuch as the director. The project based on Nelson's autobiographical book about a relationship with a transgender person will be based on a research among atypical couples and families and activists fighting for their rights in Slovenia.
As part of a programme focusing on inclusion of the young into theatre and the public discourse, The Art of War/The Art of Peace by Ana Duša, inspired by the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war and the ancient Chinese military treatise The Art of War by Sunzi, will premiere in January 2024.
In March, different stereotypes and auto-stereotypes about Slovenia will be presented in a project by acclaimed German director Sebastian Nübling.
The season will be rounded off with a modern take on the Cinderella story by Andrej Rozman Roza directed by Vito Taufer.
The most challenging project of this and the next season will be Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards directed by Italian tandem ErosAntEros, featuring live performances by the acclaimed Slovenian band Laibach. After premiering in Bologna in April 2024, the international co-production will be included in the 2024/2025 season.
The theatre will continue to work with other cultural association and artists, including to host the Platforma festival of "small arts" and the Zatočišče festival, dedicated to director Žiga Divjak.
The SMG will also perform at the Mousonturm art centre in Frankfurt in October as part of Slovenia's participation at the Frankfurt Book Fair, participate at the Euro-Scene festival in Leipzig and the LOST - YOU GO SLAVIA festival in Berlin.