Why We Got Divorced

Première 16. 1. 2025, Mestno gledališče ljubljansko

Running time is 2 hours and 15 minutes.

English surtitles

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. Through the text and the staging, Katarina Morano and Žiga Divjak expose and explore the most intimate map of a partnership between two contemporary people with sensitive precision.