Beton Ltd.: PHENOMENAL REALITY: PART 1

* The performance is not suitable for the audience under the age of 18.

August 23 – pre-premiere in the frame of Mladi levi festival (sold out)
September 3 – premiere
September 4 – reprise followed by the Audience Council discussion
September 5 – reprise, with an option of audio description (the audio description starts already at 5.30 p.m. with the introduction of the set and actors)

It is becoming increasingly difficult to understand the situation and context of our own lives through grand narratives. We sense changes more keenly than we can explain them, and something is steadily shifting, sliding for the worse, without us being able to pinpoint the exact moment it crossed the threshold. We know it all, yet nothing changes.
The new performance by the collective Beton Ltd. borrows its title from the philosophical concept of phenomenal reality, which refers to the world as we perceive and experience it. The world of phenomena. The world right before our eyes. This is the world that the performance builds on. Not what is supposedly hidden behind it, but what happens on its surface every day. The experience of living in a social and emotional landscape where aggression, vulgarity, indifference, and the disintegration of shared space no longer appear as exceptions but as the atmosphere itself.
Beton Ltd. does not look for a theatrical language in representation or explanation. It develops a performative situation in which meaning is established through relationships, rhythms, bodies, images, and shared presence. It is interested in the space between recognition and incomprehension, between laughter and discomfort, between fascination and resistance.

Concept and direction: Beton Ltd. v odstopu
Performers: Primož Bezjak, Branko Jordan, Katarina Stegnar, Maja Kunaver, Čarna Lampret, Peter Podgoršek
Set design: Matej Stupica
Costume design: Olja Grubić
Music and sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Lighting design: Beton Ltd. v odstopu, Matej Stupica, Andrej Petrovčič
Visuals: Toni Soprano Meneglejte
Technical director: Andrej Petrovčič
Executive producers: Maja Vižin, Ajda Koloini
Public relations: Tamara Bračič Vidmar
Produced by: Bunker, Ljubljana
Supported by: Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije, Mestna občina Ljubljana, Greenstage, Evropska unija – program Ustvarjalna Evropa
Thanks to: Športno društvo Tabor, Naravoslovnotehniška fakulteta UL, Slavica Janošević, Slovensko mladinsko gledališče, Strip Core, Miha Zupan, Jernej Černalogar, Martin Lovšin
Photo: Toni Soprano

Audience Council is a series of public discussions where audience members come together to talk about the performance they have just watched. Audience Council will be moderated by dramaturg Maša Radi Buh.

Ticket booking and information: info@bunker.si or +386 51 269 906.