BETON LTD.: GREAT EXPECTATIONS|GROSSE ERWARTUNGEN
Beton Ltd. are a collective of authors: Katarina Stegnar, Primož Bezjak and Branko Jordan. Great Expectations|Große Erwartungen, a festival premiere, is their sixth performance. They say they always begin a performance from ground zero, but for a performance to emerge from nothing, personal grips are almost always of key importance for them. They do not enter narrations and dilemmas through individual stories alone, but also through personal ones. »We can only legitimately speak about ourselves.« After ecology, transitional/growing‑up loss of illusions, the impotency of resistance, generational angst, they are now dealing with the topic of great expectations and future. And what are expectations if not projections of present desires? »The desires of a European, white, heterosexual, urban, cosmopolitan, overrepresented generation. But we must not forget: Katarina, Primož, Branko … we were all children once. Slovene children. Some still are.«
- Concept and direction: Beton Ltd.
- Performing: Katarina Stegnar, Primož Bezjak, Branko Jordan
- Music: U$IŁ (Maksim Špelko, Janez Weiss), Jure Vlahovič
- Set and lighting design: toni soprano + Sonda 57
- Sound design: Jure Vlahovič
- Visual materials: toni soprano
- Dramaturgical collaborator: Urška Brodar
- Technical director: Andrej Petrovčič
- Executive producer: Maja Vižin
- Public relations: Tamara Bračič Vidmar
- Translation: Tibor Hrs Pandur
- Artistic residency: Santarcangelo Festival
- Produced by: Bunker, Ljubljana
Made possible by: Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, City Municipality of Ljubljana, European Union — Culture programme, Create to Connect
Thanks to: Španski borci
The performance is in Slovene with English surtitles.
