Solo

Première 20. avgust 2021, The New Post Office
Running time 3 hours 30 minutes. No intermission.

Creators and performers Nina Rajić Kranjac, Nataša Keser, Benjamin Krnetić, Marko Mandić
Set designer Urša Vidic
Composer Branko Rožman
Musicians Petra Božič, Branko Rožman
Selector of music Nina Rajić Kranjac
Artistic advisor Minca Lorenci
Technicians Martin Lovšin, Igor Remeta with team
Producer Tina Dobnik

Special thanks to
Goran Injac, Janez Janša, Tibor Hrs Pandur, Matej Recer, Blaž Šef, Nataša Živković, Bara Kolenc, Tibor Miheliču Syed, Dušan Kohek, Jaka Smerkolj Simoneti

And to all who appear in the videos
Nataša Živković, Bara Kolenc, Olja Grubić, Urša Vidic, Daniel Petković, Marko Brdnik, Dorian Šilec Petek, Gaja Teppey, Jože Udovč, Aoris Pasek Wallrugrey

Solo is a project where the director and actors meet in improvisation. It is an attempt to create an event from given cues, drawing on the question of what it means to be alone. Why theatre, what are its uses, how to change your thinking about it through these meetings? This is also the director’s attempt to put herself into the spotlight and study herself. To make herself both the subject of the problem and its catalyst. The event, created anew in each performance, may result from the perpetual need to search for meaning. The production interrogates, responds, creates, intervenes and establishes a space for dialogue, meetings and confrontations, thus taking artistic risks and trying to go beyond standardisation, which increasingly masters and shapes the "methodology" of the arts. By articulating the essential truths of the subject in theatre, even if they are entirely individual, the project either expands or breaks down predictable frameworks of representation and experience of art while striving to achieve significant shifts in the responsiveness of the audience and society alike.

The project is a part of the production programme of The New Post Office, led by Maska Ljubljana and Mladinsko Theatre, which focuses on giving meaning to artistic activities in a social context and understanding art and its presence in a wider social circumstance.