Now, Suddenly, I Was a Creature of Vice

Première 25. 4. 2025, Ljubljana (Osmo/za)

Running time 1 hour and 35 minutes, no intermission.

Author of concept, text, director, and conduction of interviews Lučka Neža Peterlin

Co-author of the Text Besarta Zimeri

Co-authors Lea Aymard, Ajda Pirtovšek

Co-authors and assistant dramaturges Lana Krmelj, Manca Tea Devetak

Sound design Tschimy Aliage Obenga

Voices Lina Akif, Diana Kolenc, Klara Kuk, Mila Peršin, Darja Reichman, Angela Steiner, Miranda Trnjanin

Photography Asiana Jurca Avci

Graphic designer Angela Steiner

PR assistant Urška Comino

Production Nastja Minik Kotnik

Technical direction and lighting designer Igor Remeta

Cast Lea Aymard, Ajda Pirtovšek

Partner Zavod Delak

Financial support City of Ljubljana, Ministry of Culture Republic of Slovenia

Special thanks to all the anonymous contributors who shared their experiences.

Now, Suddenly, I Was a Creature of Vice is a documentary performance based on conversations with women with experience of sex work in Slovenia. The performance approaches sex work as a legitimate form of labour, while exposing the ways in which social systems of stigma, control, and moral judgement mark individuals over time, regardless of their actual choices or circumstances. The collected stories do not form a single narrative but instead unfold as a series of fragments, contradictions, and positions that resist simplification. Through a nonconformist multimedia form that moves between confession, testimony, and theatrical construction, the performance raises questions of who speaks, who listens, and under what conditions speech becomes possible. Rather than explaining or judging, the work establishes a space of audibility in which the unequal valuation of bodies, labour, and voices within existing power relations becomes visible.

Content warning: the performance includes topics of sexual violence and abuse, human trafficking, physical and psychological violence, drug use, addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, self-harm and suicidal ideation.