Bojan Jablanovec
NOT LIKE ME

May 15 at 8.30 pm
Venue: Gledališče Glej
Duration: 60 minutes

Not Like Me is from a performance cycle about the seven mortal sins, and depicts what is apparently a special mortal sin since Via Negativa has dealt it in two distinct productions: once in the piece Four Deaths, and a second time in Not Like Me. This is a performance about a performance that destroys itself. The work theatricalises envy as the quality that triumphs in relationships between performers within the performance that we are watching. A knife game is the last action in the piece, bringing the narrative to the point when all that remains relevant is blood. It is precisely this blood that has challenged the public and critics to search for subtext, finding everything from national conflict to dramas from antiquity in the production.

Bojan Jablanovec is a theatre director. In 2002, he began the cycle Via Negativa which is a form of collective creation and education, as he also organises workshops. Via Negativa is a cycle of performances each of which has as its starting point one of the human qualities that from the Christian perspective are conceived of as mortal sins. The performances function as a collage, the actors’ artistic contributions being pieces in a puzzle. As director, Jablanovec conceptually links them. This year, the cycle will be concluded with the performance Via Nova which will gather together all of the performers and material from previous performances.

Text: Boris Kadin, Bojan Jablanovec
Concept and direction: Bojan Jablanovec
Text and scenes conceived and devised by performers: Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi, Iva Burčul, Špela Trošt
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Via Negativa, Zalet Zadar, Festival Zadar Snova

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