And Many Others …

Première 3. 10. 2025, Veliki oder SLG Celje

Première 12. 11. 2025, Prešernovo gledališče Kranj

Running time 1 hour 20 minutes, no intermission.

Surtitles: English

Post-performance discussion with the artists.

Co-author of the dramatization, director Bor Ravbar

Co-author of the dramatization, dramaturg Varja Hrvatin

Set designer Urša Vidic

Costume designer Nina Čehovin

Composer Branko Rožman

Lighting designer Domen Lušin

Choreographer Lada Petrovski Ternovšek

Language consultant Živa Čebulj

Cast
Luka Bokšan as guest, Vesna Pernarčič, Aljoša Ternovšek, Barbara Medvešček, Aljoša Koltak, Mojka Končar, Lucija Harum, Eva Stražar, Rastko Krošl, Tarek Rashid, Damjan M. Trbovc

And Many Others … fits into the discourse on poverty and social shame. It is created based on the short story Mater je zatajil (He Disowned His Mother) and other narratives by Ivan Cankar that explore the position of the worker and class dynamics. It is supported by modern theoretical works that study the working class and shame. The production enters Cankar’s texts by exploring the motifs of poverty and their imprints in the contemporary post-capitalist context and through confronting the confusion in understanding the ideology of the working class today. It opens a series of questions: What is our attitude towards poverty and class position? How is poverty revealed – and concealed – today? Who comprises the working class in modern times? The performance also puts under scrutiny the attitude that parents and children take towards their own economic position and reveals how these class categories leave an imprint on and shape interpersonal relationships.