Training in Disagreement

About the event

In the collection of interviews Urjenja v nestrinjanju (Exercises in Dissent, MGL Library, 2025), Jaka Smerkolj Simoneti and Tery Žeželj spoke with artists who have begun co-creating the field of directing in Slovenia in the last decade or so. In the book, numerous directors – Živa Bizovičar, Marko Čeh, Tjaša Črnigoj, Žiga Divjak, Tin Grabnar, Varja Hrvatin, Maruša Kink, Jan Krmelj, Lea Kukovičič, Mojca Madon, Luka Marcen, Maša Pelko, the Počemučka Collective, Nina Rajić Kranjac, Nina Ramšak Marković, Bor Ravbar, Dorian Šilec Petek, Neja Tomšič, Juš Zidar and Aljoša Živadinov Zupančič – reveal the creative tendencies, production conditions and contexts that decisively determine contemporary Slovenian theatre production. Each of them has their own way of entering the role of a director, which, given the growing trend of devised theatre practices that stand alongside the established principles of drama theatre, is no longer understood as the function of the ultimate author of the production. Žeželj and Simoneti, together with their interlocutors, ponder how to think about directing today, how to define its scope of activity at the intersection of different fields, and how to understand the role of the person who takes over this, now already porous, function. Edited by Petra Pogorevc, the book includes an introductory essay written by theatre theorist Zala Dobovšek.

Participants: Petra Pogorevc, PhD, Associate professor Zala Dobovšek, PhD, Tery Žeželj and Jaka Smerkolj Simoneti with guests

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