St. Peter’s Passion or The Long Way Home

Crew

Authors of the concept and performance text: Peter Alojz Marn and Ula Talija Pollak

Cast: Peter Alojz Marn

Dramaturg: Ula Talija Pollak

Set designer: Živa Brglez

Costume designer: Nina Gorišek

Sound designer: David Nik Lipovac

Lighting designer: Domen Lušin, Veronika Hana Grubič

Language consultant: Martin Vrtačnik

Mentors:

for stage acting

Associate professor Branko Jordan

Associate professor Katarina Stegnar

for theatre production

Associate professor Mija Špiler

About the event

In his novel, Daddy Issues, Dino Pešut writes: "Those who try and fail return home. I failed." St Peter’s Passion or The Long Way Home explores the position of the everyman in the interspace between their home environment that they’re leaving behind and the town, or the cultural milieu they’re entering. Through that, it explores the reasons and the consequences of this decision. 

We’re interested in what home is – is it a physical or a mental space? How to deal with the feeling of guilt when we leave the primary cell, even though this is the only sensible way to continue existing? Who has the right to talk about underprivilege and negligence? Who is oppressed by the oppressed? Who has the right to change their social class? Is it easier to bridge the material space between the gaps or to gain cultural capital? Can a person ever return home? 

The production has been created using the principles of devised theatre through which the creative team drew on their own experiences, supplementing them with autofiction and books by Édouard Louis, Dijana Matković, Annie Ernaux and Didier Eribon. This principle allowed them to sharpen the story and the material and, at the same time, provided the creators with some distance in their relationship to the material and, through autofiction anonymity, immunity to bring to the stage the stories they might otherwise not stage.

Prešeren Theatre Kranj and UL AGRFT 

A production for the second cycle master’s degree in Stage Acting.

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