Rapture

Première: 26 October 2023, Ljubljana City Theatre

Running time 2 hours 30 minutes. One intermission.

Director Jan Krmelj

Translator Vesna Hauschild
Dramaturg Petra Pogorevc
Set designer Lin Japelj
Costume designer Brina Vidic
Composers Val Fürst, Pavel Panon
Video designer Dorian Šilec Petek
Language consultant Martin Vrtačnik
Assistant director Lučka Neža Peterlin
Lighting designer Boštjan Kos
Sound designer Sašo Dragaš

Cast
Ajda Smrekar
Diana Kolenc, as guest
Jernej Gašperin
Boris Kerč

The author of the text writes in the introductory note that the production must not be marketed under her name and the actual title. This intervention is only an introduction to the processes of playing with reality in a tense and suggestive crime drama, through which we are guided by Rrose Sélavy, alter ego of Marcel Duchamp, the founder of conceptual art. The protagonists of the story are two environmental activists who were found shot dead in their apartment in December 2021. They met in November 2011 on a blind date organised by a newspaper on the basis of an algorithm. The production interweaves alleged documentary evidence with fictional scenes from the lives of the deceased couple: a shocking reconstruction of a double murder or murder-suicide. The question of whether Noah and Celeste were real was answered when the play was staged: it is indisputable that they could very well have been.