The Future

Premiere 2. 2. 2024, Ljubljana City Theatre

Running time 1 hour 35 minutes, no intermission.

Post-performance discussion with the artists.

Director Žiga Divjak

Script authors Žiga Divjak, Gregor Zorc

Dramaturg and assistant director Gregor Zorc

Set designer Igor Vasiljev

Costume designer Tina Pavlović

Composer Blaž Gracar

Language consultant Barbara Rogelj

Lighting designer Borut Bučinel

Cast

Bernarda Oman, Lara Wolf as guest, Lotos Vincenc Šparovec, Gregor Gruden, Iztok Drabik Jug as guest,  Gregor Zorc as guest, Milena Vasić, Jana Bjelica, Marija Pikić, Milan Kolak, Stefan Starčević, Milan Zarić

Human waste, visible and invisible, travels through vast atmospheric layers and wide ocean currents. It spreads far and wide, all the way to the navel of the ocean, to an isolated atoll two thousand kilometres from the nearest civilisation. It accumulates in the body of a devoted albatross, which spends hundreds and hundreds of kilometres gathering food for its young, just to end up in the belly of the young albatross.

Millions and millions of years of flight over the turbulent surface of the sea, countless albatrosses that have cared and toiled to ensure the continuation of their species, come into contact with human ingenuity, a substance less than 100 years old – plastics.

Chemicals, plastics, living beings and their families, commitments, relation­ships are all brought together in a complex web of interactions. The Future is a performance hidden in this complex web of interactions.