The women’s tasks
Bits of women’s dailiness. Bits from books, music, film and television. Bits of history and memory. Historical memory. Bits of life, here and now. Fundamental and unimportant bits. But so much more universal. These are the women’s tasks. This theatre does not want to be an wnswer, it is no longer a mirror., but rather a state of things. Our binding is the life itself. The weaving machine through which we have drawn our threads and put it into operation …
We hammed, knotted, knitted and wove stories. We composed, arranged and sewed them., and then tear them apart again. We swam into countless roles which we have been playing every day, here and now. We wove the women’s tasks. Our work is but one attempt at the mistification of the figure of woman, redefintion of icons and verification of the state of things. Just what we women have been always been doing. Just like our icons, Svetlana, Laurie, Suzanne; just like Pipilotti, Gertrude, Marguerite … Just like all of us. This is what we wanted to tell with this production. And if succeeded at least a bit, the intended has been woven
Režija: Barbara Kapelj
Premiera: 07.12.2000, Moderna Galerija
LANGUE D’AMOUR
Let’s see. Uh, it was on an island. And there was this snake.
And the snake had legs. And he could walk all around the island.
Yes. That’s true. A snake with legs.
And the man and the woman were on the island too.
And they were not very smart.
But they were happy as clams. Yes.
Let’s see. Uh … then one evening the snake was walking about
in the garden and he was talking to himself and he saw the woman
and they started to talk. And they became friends.
Very good friends.
And the woman liked the snake very much. Because when he talked, he make little noises with his tongue, and his long tongue
was lightly licking about his lips.
Like there was a fire inside his mouth and the flame would come dancing out of his mouth.
And this woman liked this very much.
And after that, she was bored with the man.
Because no matter what happened, he was always as happy as a clam.
What did the snake say? Yes! What was he saying?
OK. I will tell you.
The snake told her things about the world. He told her about
the time there was a big typhoon on the island
and all the sharks came out of the water. Yes.
They came out of the water and they walked right into your house
with their big white teeth.
And the woman heard these things. And she was in love.
And the man came out and said: We have to go now!
And the woman did not want to go. Because she was hothead.
Because she was a woman in love.
Anyway, we got into their boat and left the island.
But they never stayed anywhere very long.
Because the woman was restless. She was a hothead.
She was a woman in love.
And this is not a story people tell.
It is something I know myself.
And when I do my job, I am thinking about these things.
Because when I do my job, that is what I think about.
(Laurie Anderson)
About the Author
Barbara Kapelj, freelance artist, director and architect, set up and costume designer was born on 30th of September in Kranj, Slovenia. In 1994 she admitted Faculty for architecture where she achieved Bachelor of Science in February 2002. She won a Sever’s Prize for theatre in 1993 and has directed some very unique performing arts productions in the last decade. At the moment she’s working on new concept of theatre play “The Triumph of Active Tenderness” in Experimental Theatre Glej in Ljubljana.
Cast
Režiserka in scenografka: Barbara Kapelj
Asistentka režije: Branka Maček
Asistentki scenografke: Ana Kapelj in Aleša Korpić
Dramaturginja: Amelia Kraigher
Glasba: Bojana Šaljić
Video: Tanja Vujinović
Kostumografka: Urša Draž
Filozofija: Sabina Autor
Tkalke: Damjana Černe, Bara Kolenc, Romana Šalehar
Izdelava scenografije: Jože Zajc
Produkcija in stiki z javnostjo: Nataša Zavolovšek, Maska Produkcije v kopordukciji z Mini teatrom, ŠOU Ljubljana in v sodelovanju z Moderno galerijo
Premiera: 07.12.2000, Moderna Galerija
Teksti: Laurie Anderson, Simone de Beauvoir, Slavenka Drakulić, Marguerite Duras, Jenny Holtzer, Dorian Leader, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Naomi Wolf, Virginia Woolf.
Hvala: Uči in Milan Osredkar, Mojca Stegnar, Robert Waltl, Jana Pavlič, Valentina Čabro, Damjan Osredkar, Breda, Bojan, Jože Pintar, Ančka Jevc, Turistično društvo Barje, Maruša Markovčič, Tina Osredkar, Zdenka Petan, Bor Turel, Selly Šubic de Brea.
Sponzorji: MOL, Urad županje MOL, MK, OSI, ŠOU, Urad za žensko politiko, Kulturkontakt Austria, Petrol, Lancome, Alpina, Gorenjka, Akripol.
LJUBLJANA,MODERNA GALERIJA, 07. 12. 2000
K4, LJUBLJANA, 31. 01. 2001
