Mefisto

Theatre play
Text and direction: Damir Avdić
Production: Maska
Co-production: Mini teater, Desiré Festival (Subotica, RS)
Premiere: 22. 09. 2016

It is two thousand and sixteen. The world is coming to an end. God has retreated. There is nobody left to direct Faust. Mephisto walks into a bar …

Audić’s Mephisto does not attempt to bring down stereotypes of mythical excitement about two poles, nor does it attempt to establish them. In fact, it does not attempt anything. It enters the story of life of the human and divine spirit of protagonists directly and uncompromisingly. These protagonists are Damir Avdić and Grega Zorc. Mephisto and God. Patient and psychiatrist. Director and artist.

Mephisto, a fine member of society, has preserved his sense of humour despite great preoccupations with work. Of course, he is to blame for everything. For illness. Conspiracy. Manipulation. Nonsense. Absurd. Surrender. Revolution. Anarchy. Capitalism. Performance. Me. Him. … He is, however, no longer sure about his supremacy. And this is what breaks him.

So he walks into a bar where he asks a mason to sell him his soul. He wants to get on his feet and ask God and man a few essential questions. Because both have to know the answers. Because man is God and God is man. From the surgery …

Insofar as you lean too far to one or the other side of anything, insofar as you think that we need to communicate important things and foster an idea about the possibility of accurate transfer of information, insofar as you believe in the meaningfulness of relationships of human, divine or material nature, we ask you to see all that you are about to view today as a mere story, fiction that does not concern you personally in any way. 

Theatre play
Text and direction: Damir Avdić
Production: Maska
Co-production: Mini teater, Desiré Festival (Subotica, RS)
Premiere: 22. 09. 2016

Cast

Text and direction: Damir Avdić
Performed by: Grega Zorc in Damir Avdić
Music: Damir Avdić
Light design and technical supervision: Janko Oven
Costume: Grega Zorc
Professional advisor: Barbara Krajnc
Graphic design: Ajdin Bašić
Production manager and executive producer: Tina Dobnik

Predstava v javnosti

Zala Dobovšek: Večplastno obračunavanje
Dnevnik / 24. 9. 2016
Revolucija za reševanje beguncev, revolucija za brezglutensko hrano, revolucija za pozdrav soncu. Z mešanjem raznolikih, medsebojno še skoraj bizarnih epizod in trendov aktualnega časa se izriše preris kaotičnega stanja sveta, kjer denimo izobilje in pomanjkanje hrane nenadoma postaneta enakovredna problema.

Ksenija Horvat: Intervju
TV Slovenija / 16. 10. 2016

Prodal bom dušo bogu in postal človek
Delo / Sobotna priloga / avtorica: Patricija Maličev / 7. 9. 2016
»Ne glede na to, da je vse, kar počnem, in način, kako to počnem, nekaj skrajno realnega in realističnega. Sem realni utopist.«

Damir Avdić, Grega Zorc: Mefisto
Radio Slovenija / Program ARS / avtorica: Petra Tanko /  24. 9. 2016

Damir Avdić je Mefisto
TV Slovenija / Osmi dan / prirpavila: Uršula Ana Mrežar / 22. 9. 2016

Nika Arhar: Ocenjujemo
Delo / 26. 9. 2016
Ton apokaliptične brutalnosti deloma določi začetek avtorske uprizoritve, v katerem se pogledu ob spremljavi zloveščih kitarskih rifov v hipni osvetlitvi razpre senca dveh nedoločljivih figur (Damirja Avdića in Grega Zorca), vse ostalo pa deluje le še kot poskus dohiteti ta ton in ponovno zgraditi občutek sveta brez Boga.

Pretekle izvedbe

See also

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  • Peekaboo Pointe visting Maska
  • Maska visiting the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023
  • NOW IS HERE!
  • Performance Festival 2023
  • SoToSpeak 2022/2023
  • The Future is Feminist
  • Peak
  • Crises
  • Undecidable Question
  • All projects