Project by Ivana Peternelja

Premiere: 21.09.2003, Slovensko Mladinsko gledališče

The Visages of Sand

n The Visages of Sand, the world is layered into several parallel levels, with the action freely jumping and intertwining between them. The directions opened can also be but projections of the subconscious – because performance itself is a riddle rather than a documentary or panorama of an external reality. The narrator slows down the time or accelerates it: she is weaving a net into which the listener is to be captured. She tells of a dreamer who, at the conclusion of his life, finds that he has all along been part of someone else’s dream. The performance does not aim for a linearity of narration and psychological justification – the structure of the relationships between the characters is not based on conflict, but on meetings and co-existence. The number of stories and metaphors within which man takes place and with which his imagination operates, is finite. It is about an original and its variants in everchanging contexts.

Project by Ivana Peternelja

Premiere: 21.09.2003, Slovensko Mladinsko gledališče

Cast and Crew

Concept: Prospero
Created and performed by: The Narrator – Damjana Černe, Geometer – Akira Hasegawa, She – Barbara Kukovec, A Shadow – Ivan Peternelj
Dramaturgy: Primož Jesenko
Set Design: Ema Kugler
Lighting Design: Miran Šušteršič
Lighting Techician: Matjaž Brišar
Costume Design: Elena Fajt Velikonja
Music: Irena Urankar
Sound Design and Technician: Silvo Zupančič
Sound Technician’s Assistance: Luka Škof
Language Adviser: Mateja Dermelj
Executive coordinator: Borut Cajnko, Janez Pavlovčič
Costumes made by: Tjaša Bavcon, Jožica Čož, Jožica Plut
Props made by: Sandi Mikluž, Rudolf Skopec
Set made by: Ema Kugler, Boštjan Kljakič, Sandi Mikluž, Grunf Design Studio
Porduced by: Nataša Zavolovšek, for Maska Productions In co-production with Mladinsko Opened, SMG
Premiere: 21.09.03, Mladinsko Theatre

About author

Ivan Peternelj is perhaps the most brilliant, versatile and criticaly acclaimed performer of his generation. His brilliance has been proven both in contemporary dance as well as on the stages of classical and avantgarde theatre. He toured the whole world with his dance-theatre group Betontanz and Mladinsko Theatre, won prizes (Boršnik for the accompanying role in Müller’s, Sever’s prize for opus and first prize in PUF Fest, Pula, Croatia, for Medium Coeli) and staged some own projects in the last decade

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