Via Negativa: ON THE RIGHT TRACK

Photo:  Marcandrea

A cabaret of absurd.
Two back-up singers find themselves alone on an empty stage. No solo singer, no band. Both seem pretty lost, though in fact they are not as helpless as they look. They have a program. They have an opportunity to come to the fore. To take over the game. And … they carry out their supporting job professionally from beginning to end, although on the stage there is nobody to be accompanied. They are “backing up” the emptiness. This is the absurd situation we are currently living in. Our political system is just the empty shell of “democratic society”, which keeps up the appearances of some phantom opportunities, possibilities, freedom… Although we would still like to believe that there exists some hidden backstage in which decisions take place; there is no backstage anymore. Politics as an art of decision-making no longer exists. There is only the spectacle of a void.

Concived and devised by: Grega Zorc, Vito Weis, Bojan Jablanovec
Performers: Grega Zorc, Vito Weis
Concept, direction and text: Bojan Jablanovec
Styling: Mateja Benedetti
Stage and light design: Igor Remeta
Sound design: Tomaž Grom
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Via Negativa
Supported by: Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, Mestna občina Ljubljana