Don't You Alice Me (Once Again)

Première 6. maj 2022, Mali oder
The first Slovenian performance
Running time 1 hour 15 minutes. No intermission. 

Creators Nataša Matjašec Rošker, Petja Labovič, Mateja Kokol, Valentina Turcu, Maja Borin

Dramaturg Maja Borin
Set designer Matic Kašnik
Costume designer Suzana Rengeo
Composer Aleš Zorec
Language consultant Mojca Marič
Lighting designer Tomaž Bezjak

Cast
Nataša Matjašec Rošker
Petja Labović

The central premise for Nataša Matjašec Rošker and Petja Labović was the fact that Lewis Carroll was the first, and still undisputed, master of nonsense literature. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass were the starting points for the creators’ leap down the rabbit hole, the ultimate space of play. The journey through a familiar story is only an abstract associative frame that opens the field where the bridging of the generation gap and the divergences between actors and creators take place. It is the story of a young man who can simultaneously be Rabbit, Angel, Seducer, Ferryman and of a woman, a non-Alice, an actress of a perfectly decent and appropriate age, even though she has not yet gotten used to it. The project has undergone several transformations during the (post-)corona time incorporating many concepts and motifs from literature, film, music, visual arts and movement. In the rehearsal process, the actors were given tasks, mostly indirectly, by a series of directors whose ideas opened new doors and expanded the horizons of the possible. Through the fluctuation of witty, poetic, sharp, frenetic, documentary and surrealistic contrasts, the actors discovered many paradoxes and neuralgic points of human existence in linguistic pluralism.

Producer

Slovene National Theatre Maribor, celebrating a centennial of its existence,is the largest cultural and artistic institution in Slovenia. It is organized into four coexisting and yet independent units: Drama, Opera, Ballet and Maribor Theatre Festival. It has an immense cultural and political role through its time. As the only professional theatre in Maribor it fulfils the requirements of the theatre audiences from various social and educational backgrounds. Drama department in particular preserves and develops Slovene national identity and acts as an important pillar of the Slovene language. Each season, there are six to seven productions of the classical and contemporary plays, written by Slovene or foreign playwrights.

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