John Webster & Simona Semenič
Ivan Talijančić
MALFI

May 17 at 1.00 pm
Venue: Slovensko mladinsko gledališče (spodnja dvorana)
Duration: 90 minutes

Simona Semenič has taken the nearly four-hundred year old text by John Webster and transformed and reworked it. Ivan Talijančić has staged a contemporary vision of the Duchess of Malfi who, because of love, marries someone from a lower class, a choice that eventually leads her to violence and tragedy.

Ivan Talijančič is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked for the last decade mostly in New York. Along with Erica Latta and Dion Doulis, he founded the WaxFactory which is an open art structure with a fixed core and rotating contributors. It works with various collaborators in Europe and the United States. In Slovenia, WaxFactory has performed Cleansed, She Said, Delirium 27.

Simona Semenič is a director, dramaturge, and actress. Since last year, she has been director of Glej Theatre in Ljubljana, where she also runs the program PreGlej and is involved with the staged readings of texts of less established Slovenian playwrights. Her last performance I, victim is a monodrama in which she herself acts. She is the author of a number of important dramatic texts: Solo brez talona, Socks, Loving Willy, 24hours, More ...

Director: Ivan Talijančić
Performers: Maruša Geymayer Oblak, Damjana Černe, Daša Doberšek, Janja Majzelj, Draga Potočnjak, Neda R. Bric, Marinka Štern, Vesna Vončina
Text adaptation: Simona Semenič, Ivan Talijančić
Dramaturgy: Simona Semenič
Production: Slovensko mladinsko gledališče

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