Focus CROSSING BORDERS

International Competition. 11 new plays

SLOVENIA

Tatjana Azman
Muse in the bottle

Direction: Emmanouel Kontos

Saturday 24 September 2022 at 21:00
Theatre Aliki, Pedion Areos Park

Excerpt

She sits on the riverbank in silence and holds the last bread in her lap.

She feeds ducks that have gone South.

Sometime in mid-Summer already – it was too early though –

And they have not yet returned.

How sorry she is.

And how very lonesome.

Ducks remind her of her children; she left them behind, all except one; she feeds ducks with patience as if they were her kids, and cries.

Summary

A woman, accompanied by her child, crosses the South Sea on a boat. After weeks of walking, hiding, experiencing hunger, rain and fear, they reach the last border. While attempting to cross the narrow stream after heavy rain, the little girl who has wrapped her arms around her mother’s neck, cannot hold on and drowns.

CV

A Slovenian dramaturge and theatrologist, Tatjana Ažman, graduated from the Ljubljana Academy for Theater, Radio, and Television. Since 1995 she works in-house at the Slovenian National Theatre Opera and ballet Ljubljana, and in 2015, she became an acclaimed dramaturge. Since 1988 she has worked with numerous Slovenian and international theatre and opera directors, choreographers, composers, and conductors, across all generations. Her collaborations include more than forty stagings of opera, ballet, drama theatre, and contemporary dance – some of them receiving prizes in theatre festivals. For more than twenty years, Tatjana Ažman, has been active in the International Theatre Institute, as a leader of the Slovenian Centre ITI and a member of the Executive Council. She has also served as an artistic board vice president for the Maribor Theatre Festival in Slovenia, and as Institution Board member for Cankarjev dom Ljubljana; she is also a president of the Artistic Board of Mladinsko Theatre, in Ljubljana. In 2011, as recognition of her artistic contributions, she was accorded the Ivy Wreath Award by the Association of Dramatic Artists of Slovenia.

Credits

Directing – Translation: Eugenia Arsenis

Assistant Director: George Mantzoukis

Music: Dimitris Karousos – Anna Karageorgiadou

Performers: Eugenia Arsenis, Rami Alexios Ampou-Chantitzi, Elizabeta Mardedaj, Evangelos Pitsos, Natalie Valsami, Nikiforos Kostavasilis

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