Devised theatre project
1973
Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica and GO! 2025 – European Capital of Culture, Nova Gorica
Crew
Director and Dramaturg: Tomi Janežič
Set Designer: Branko Hojnik
Costume Designer: Marina Sremac
Composer: Samo Kutin
Video by: Carlo Zoratti
Assistants to Director: Tjaša Črnigoj, Mojca Madon
Assistants to Set Designer: Katarina Prislan, Lara Reichmann
Assistant to Costume Designer: Slavica Janošević
Language Consultant: Anja Pišot
Light Designers: Tomi Janežič, Branko Hojnik
Sound Designer: Gašper Torkar
Cameraman: Stefano Giacomuzzi
Sound for Video: Renato Rinaldi
Sign Language Consultant: Tina Strel
The production uses original music by Mulčer (Samo Kutin, Andrej Fon and Szymon Gasiorek) and compositions Samo Kutin co-authored with Enja Grabrijan. Other musicians who collaborated with Samo Kutin on the score for Dodecalogy 1972–1983 are Jure Boršič, Kaja Draksler, Jošt Drašler, Vid Drašler, Andrej Fon, Szymon Gasiorek, Iztok Koren, Ana Kravanja, Dejan Lapanja, Eduardo Raon and Tea Vidmar. The production also uses the music from Tomaž Pengov’s album Odpotovanja and other music from 1973.
Cast
Tamara Avguštin
Ana Facchini
Arna Hadžialjević
Patrizia Jurinčič Finžgar
Anuša Kodelja
Helena Peršuh
Matija Rupel
Marjuta Slamič
Žiga Udir
About the performance
1973: the year in which Yugoslavia becomes the FIBA EuroBasket champion, Fellini makes Amarcord, Pink Floyd release The Dark Side of the Moon, and Tomaž Pengov his unforgettable album, recorded in his lavatory. Josipa Lisac sings Dnevnik jedne ljubavi, the American Psychiatric Association declassifies homosexuality as a mental disorder in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American intervention in the Vietnam war ends, the first call on a mobile phone is made in New York and a day later, the World Trade Center opens. On 11 September Pinochet, supported by the United States, topples the democratically elected Chilean government and takes power. One of the longest total solar eclipses of the 2nd millennium is visible over equatorial Africa. The cable car to Sveta Gora stops operating, the Mushroom Pickers’ Club in Nova Gorica is established and the Athletic Club Nova Gorica celebrates its first decade. Nova Gorica hosts the sports meet of the wood industry workers from the entire Socialist Republic of Slovenia. On 11 September 1973, the family that the production talks about experienced events that would change their entire future. The year 1973 is a portal into one family’s intergenerational stories that span across the 20th century and lead up to today.
The production is a part of the Dodecology 1972–1983. The creative team received the Tantadruj Award for Best Overall Performance (2025).
/…/ a boundless network of intertwined external references, leaps between periods and generations /…/
Petra Tanko, Radio Slovenia
/…/ a contemporary stage conglomerate of diverse principles and strategies /…/
Jaka Smerkolj Simoneti, Sigledal
Tomi Janežič takes us to other times, but without romanticizing them. /…/. At the end of the performance, he seems like a magician who skillfully maneuvers between everything described, while we, the audience, are children who fall into the fairy tale with all our attention.
Taja Lesjak Šilak, MMC RTV Slovenia
In Slovenian, Italian and English with Italian, English and Slovenian subtitles.
4 hours and 30 minutes with 2 intervals.
Video
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