The Game
Maska Ljubljana and Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Ljubljana
Crew
Director: Žiga Divjak
Dramaturgical collaborator: Katarina Morano
Research assistant: Maja Ava Žiberna
Set designer: Igor Vasiljev
Costume designer: Tina Pavlović
Composer, sound and video designer: Blaž Gracar
Language consultant: Mateja Dermelj
Lighting designer, stage and props manager: Igor Remeta
Assistant directors: Ana Lorger and Nika Prusnik Kardum
Translation of the recording: Barbara Skubic
Producer and stage manager: Tina Dobnik
Cast
Primož Bezjak
Sara Dirnbek
Maruša Oblak
Matej Puc
Vito Weis
On the recording: Hamza Aziz, Zaher Amini, Khalid Ali, Behnaz Aliesfahanipour
About the performance
The text of the performance is based on the testimonies from the Border Violence Monitoring Network Database.
People who have walked across half of the world to escape wars, persecution, violence and crushing poverty, call the last stretch of their route, the stretch that takes them from Bosnia and Herzegovina to a safe destination in the European Union, the game.
The game has no rules, laws don’t apply, the powers of the police is limitless, the violence increasingly brutal, the dangers increasingly more dangerous, the possibilities smaller and smaller, and the destination further and further … Many try several times, even twenty or thirty times; it’s a numbers game.
For many, the game is fatal. Available records show that around twenty people have thus far lost their lives on our borders.
The Game, a devised theatre project, studies the role and responsibility of Slovenia and its border policy for lives and fates of the people on the run.
*The text is summarized from the webpage of the performance.
"One after another the stories accumulate […]; meanwhile these narratives are becoming more and more horrifying […] – and frightful. But this is not a performance that wants to please – in fact, this rigidity slowly reveals the system’s complete indifference to the legal and ethical principles, which is steadily spreading to our own doorsteps. " (Gregor Butala, Dnevnik, 17 June 2020)
Première: 10. 6. 2020
The production is 1 hour and 45 minutes long and has no interval.