Become a Street Lamp (Srečko Kosovel)

Photo: Foto atelje Pavšič Zavadlav

Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica

Première: 8 & 9 January 2014, Slovene national theatre Nova Gorica, Small stage
Running time 1 hour. No interval.

A concert of poetry

Director Andrej Jus
Dramaturg Nejc Valenti
Composer Branko Rožman
Language consultant Srečko Fišer
Stage designer Danijel Modrej
Costume designer Belinda Radulović
Choreographer Bojana Mišić
Lighting designer Samo Oblokar
Sound designer Matej Čelik

Cast
Ana Facchini
Kristijan Guček
Miha Nemec
Žiga Saksida as guest
Marjuta Slamič
Vladimir Hmeljak

The concert of the poetry of Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926) was conceived on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the poet’s birth. It singles out his thought, which fits the present moment with its expression of the need to change the existing social order.
The central figure of the event is a man who wants to change the world but along the road has to confront questions on his own essence and sense of life. In its own peculiar way the performance addresses mainly young people, the carriers of the future. In the theatrical sense, it inclines to Constructivism, whose aesthetics Kosovel equalled with ethics. He calls for the renewal of man, for a man as "personalised ethos”. The theatrically complex interlacing of musical and visual selections of socially engaged texts is completed by an interpolation of (essayistic) prose excerpts, providing a more sober tone of engagement to the revolutionary tone of the theatrical scream for humanity.