Beton Ltd.: I SAY WHAT I AM TOLD TO SAY

The perfomance I Say What I Am Told To Say is tackling the interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s work in an original way. Beckett, intimate in presenting his own stream of thoughts and yielding himself to the events from the outside world, is a starting point for the authors and performers: Primož Bezjak, Daša Doberšek, Branko Jordan and Katarina Stegnar, united in the collective Beton Ltd.

Decades after the utterance “You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” the spiral of talking and talking nonsense advanced to unimagined dimensions. The lost faith in ideas and ideologies dismantled every possibility of believing in the word and in new future existing after the future. The performance is developing from point zero, which is the performing process of a group of artists, which is and isn’t, not because it shan’t be, but for it to become. “I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. I have only to go on, as if there was something to be done, something begun, somewhere to go.” The basic premise is completely Beckettian: from a dialogue to a monologue, from a monologue to solitude.
The last scene of the real face of individualisation no longer takes place where you can see me, nor does it take place where you can’t see me and neither does it take place over there, far away. For there is no one there, far away; I am alone. As if a reason always existed, because of which we must go on, and a place, where we can go.

Branko Jordan, one of the members of the Beton Ltd. collective received a Stane Sever Award 2012 for special acting achievements. Sever Award is Slovenian Award in the field of theater, awarded by the Stane Sever Fund, established in memory of the legendary Slovenian theater and film actor. Prizes are awarded since 1970. Congratulations to Branko Jordan!

Authors and performers: Primož Bezjak, Daša Doberšek, Branko Jordan, Katarina Stegnar
Translation of Samuel Beckett’s texts: Aleš Berger
Dramaturgy: Andreja Kopač
Music: Dead Tongues
Costume design: Mateja Benedetti
Sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Set and lighting design: Son:DA
Editing: Barbara Rogelj
Wardrobe: Nataša Recer
Printed materials design: Gašper Brezovar
Bunker producer: Maja Vižin
APT producer: Jasna Dokl Osolnik
Co-production: Anton Podbevšek Teater and Bunker, Ljubljana
Supported by: Novo mesto City Municipality, Krka, d. d., Novo mesto, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport, Ljubljana City Municipality