Dust

Premiere 29. 11. 2024, KUD Dveh, Poljanska 73a

Running time 1 hour 20 minutes, no intermission.

The performance includes flashing lights, loud music, and smoke effects.

Post-performance discussion with the artists.

Director and Set designer Dorian Šilec Petek

Dramaturg Eva Mahkovic

Composer Jan Krmelj

Translator of the original work Darja Dominkuš

Producer Mija Špiler

Language consultant Maja Cerar

Paintings Boris Mihalj

Cast

Polona Juh

Saša Tabakovič

Throughout history, it has been universally acknowledged that the presence of a ghost in the home of a grieving family can be detected in stopped clocks, exploding lightbulbs, sudden temperature changes and butterflies flying overhead. We may see the face of the deceased in strangers on the street and inexplicable shadows in corners. We can feel unexplained phantom touches, and printers start printing by themselves. Photos on the wall shift. Mourning transcends reality. It cuts into it and alters it. But whom are we mourning? A loved one? Past times? Times that will never come? Ourselves? Beliefs about our world that will never come true?

Dust is about mourning (and the consequences of) two disasters – a personal tragedy of losing a loved one and a global ecological cataclysm. The grief is twofold, for the lost beloved and for the external world. Dust is an anxious prose chronicle of our most profound fears of loss.