Mladi levi | Beton Ltd.: PHENOMENAL REALITY: PART 1 – SOLD OUT

prepremiere of performance

* The performance is not suitable for audience under 18.

You can see the performance also on September 3, 4 and 5!

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.

100 minut
English translation of the performance is available.

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
The performance features excerpts from Henry Purcell’s What Power Art Thou from the opera King Arthur, performed by countertenor Gérard Lesne.
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