The First Word Is Mama – Part 4: Ksenija

About the event

Tjaša Mislej’s text, nominated for the 2024 Slavko Grum Award, covers the topics of motherhood, parenthood, family and family relationships from different angles. The playwright presents them in a contemporary realistic style, which leaves no room for anything beyond the bare reality, the everyday. But she chooses her themes and her dialogues carefully so that different layers emerge through them and continuously uncover how deeply rooted social paradigms are. The modern drama structure is an omnibus of five women’s family stories. The Radio Slovenia – Fiction Program Editorial Office will record each individual story and broadcast the series under the title The First Word is Mama.

At the Week of Slovenian Drama, we will present an enhanced reading performance of the fourth story (Ksenija), which opens the questions of teenage pregnancy, trauma transfer, the projections of one’s own ambitions onto the children and the consequences of too high expectations of them.

After the performance, dramaturg Vilma Štritof will talk to playwright Tjaša Mislej, director Špela Kravogel and family psychotherapist Dr. Katarina Možina.

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