It All Continued with Frozen Lobsters

Premiere 3. 12. 2024, Center kulture Španski borci
The event is conceived as an interactive intermedia performance for three spectators.
Running time 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission.

Author of text, concept and script Varja Hrvatin
Programmer and technical concept author Jurij Smrke
Sound designer and original music author Gašper Lovrec
Set and lighting designer Bor Ravbar
Graphic and video designer Anja Romih
Technical support Domen Lušin
Design assistance, photo and video documentation Maša Dernovšek

Performers
Maša Grošelj, Anja Novak, Živa Selan

The starting point of this interactive intermedia performance is an experiment: how to take a drama text and, in staging it, intertwine it with the operative mechanisms of (computer) games and introduce an individual’s intimate narrative into the experience of collective play?

It All Continued with Frozen Lobsters serves as a continuation of Hrvatin’s text It All Started with the Bunny Rabbit Goulash, which won her the 2020 Young Playwright Award at the Week of Slovenian Drama. While, in the first work, the author focused on the questions of guilt, in the second, she explores the question of shame through the narrative of three young women who are facing the experience of abuse, illness and loneliness in times of precarious employment, gentrification and social insecurity.