The Future

Première: 2 February 2024, Ljubljana City Theatre

Running time 1 hour and 35 minutes. No intermission.

Director Žiga Divjak
 

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.