Why We Got Divorced

Première 16. 1. 2025, Mestno gledališče ljubljansko

Running time 2 hours 15 minutes, no intermission.

Surtitles: English

Post-performance discussion with the artists.

Director Žiga Divjak

Dramaturg Katarina Morano

Set designer Igor Vasiljev

Costume designer Tina Pavlović

Composer Blaž Gracar

Language consultant Maja Cerar

Assistant dramaturg (student)  Nejka Jevšek

Lighting designer Borut Bučinel

Sound designer Sašo Dragaš

Cast Jana Zupančič, Matej Puc

If a long-standing relationship between two people was cut across and observed as a kind of matter, one could probably see concentric circles, much like the ones one sees when a tree is cut down – layers that have been piled on top of each other or next to each other over the years would show. These were years and years and years of feelings, events, hopes, expectations, plans, surprises, lightness, heaviness, pressures, changes, stagnations, ups, downs, quarrels and reconciliations.

In Why We Got Divorced, a husband and wife take us through their “tree rings” – each from his or her own perspective, leading us through key and incidental points in the history of their cohabitation in order to make sense of what happened to them. In the production of Katarina Morano’s and Žiga Divjak’s latest text Why We Got Divorced, they expose and explore with sensitive precision the most intimate map of a partnership between two contemporary people.