Anja Hilling

Black Beast Sorrow

Photo: Barbara Čeferin

Ljubljana City Theatre / Mestno gledališče ljubljansko

Original Title Schwarzes Tier Traurigkeit

Première 17. 02. 2013 Main Stage, Ljubljana City Theatre

Running time 2 hours and 35 minutes with one interval.

Translator Jaša Drnovšek
Director Ivica Buljan
Dramaturg Petra Pogorevc
Stage Designers Numen and Ivana Radenović
Costume Designer Ana Savić Gecan
Composer and répétiteur Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
Language Consultant Martin Vrtačnik
Lighting Designer Andrej Koležnik
Assistant Dramaturg (student) Anja Krušnik Cirnski
Assistant Costume Designer Sara Smrajc Žnidarčič
Physical Coach Ivan Bizjak
Translator of the excerpt from Homer’s Hymn to Dionysus Jera Ivanc

Cast
Paul Sebastian Cavazza
Miranda Tina Potočnik
Jennifer Jana Zupančič
Oscar Jure Henigman
Martin Lotos Vincenc Šparovec
Flynn Domen Valič
Narrator, Her Jette Ostan Vejrup
Him Milan Štefe

Hot summer night in the woods. Beeches, oaks, pine trees, lindens, a willow here and there … A minivan. Beer cans, cola, water, wine, a glass of Cognac, ketchup, mayonnaise, cheese, plastic bags with veggies, bread, sausages, cutlets, plates, cutlery, a bag of coal, portable barbecue. Spices. A guitar. And more. And more. The nature all around is very beautiful. A splendid summer night in a marvellous forest. Something occurs that will change everything. An Event.
It is the Event that holds the central place in the three-act play by the young German playwright Anja Hilling. The author thrusts her fairly well-off characters from a contemporary environment into a calamity – a fire ignited by their own awkwardness. In her text Hilling wanted to test the catastrophe in relation to the minuteness of human life. Her writing bears traits of the new brutalism in contemporary dramatic literature, a tendency that goes one step beyond.