Living Conditions

Première: 5 October 2024, Mladinsko Theatre

Running time 3 hours and 25 minutes. Two intermission.

Director Bor Ravbar
 

Although housing issues are closely linked to the fundamental (in)security of a person’s existence, their everyday life and thus to their belonging and inclusion in the community and society at large, they are often presented to the public simply as statistical-data analysis. Living conditions looks at them as a multi-generational problem. It attempts to show the realities of the housing market not only from the statistical or analytical, but also personal angle. It focuses on the stories and experiences of individuals and try to reveal, through them, the mechanisms of the free market in which a flat is no longer a home, but a means to acquire and accumulate wealth.

The creators undertake the search for suitable flats using different performative procedures that blend installation and theatre performance. They seek not just insight into the state of affairs but also use their research to try to open up space for alternative forms of housing organization.