Tjaša Črnigoj: Sex Education II: The Fight
The fifth and final part of the series of lecture-performances describes the struggle for reproductive rights in Yugoslavia, which touched upon sexual rights only indirectly, but paved the way for today’s right to speak of sexual pleasure. The struggle goes back to the time during and after the Second World War, when an epidemic of (unprofessional) abortions claimed the lives of many women. At the time, abortion was illegal and punishable by imprisonment, while the concept of marital rape did not exist in legal terms. The biographies of Vida Tomšič, a partisan and later an important Yugoslav politician, and Dr Franc Novak-Luka, a partisan, notable gynaecologist and Vida Tomšič’s second husband, outline the development of a policy, which was progressive for the time: the development of the idea of family planning as a human right and of the right to sex education, which goes beyond the biologist conception of sexuality and places humane relations between the sexes at the centre of the issue. At a time when society is being re-traditionalised and policies once again challenge the right to safe abortion and contraception, a woman’s right to her body cannot be taken for granted but needs to be fought for over and over again.
Tickets: 14€ / 12€
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Written and directed by Tjaša Črnigoj
Author and performer: Vanda Velagić
Author: Sendi Sotlar
Performer: Lina Akif
Writer, set and costume designer: Tijana Todorović
Author and set designer: Lene Lekše
Expert collaborator: dr. Maja Vehar, Živa Novak
Vida Tomšič’s voice: Draga Potočnjak
Franc Novak’s voice: Matej Recer
Grandmother’s voice: Nina Skrbinšek
Narrator’s voice: Sara Horžen
Language consultant: Mateja Dermelj
Editing and sound editing: Jure Vlahovič, Silvo Zupančič
Photographer: Nada Žgank
Video editing and camera: Hana Vodeb
Lighting designers: Tjaša Črnigoj, Igor Remeta, Manca Vukelič, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše, Demijan Pintarič
Technical director: Igor Remeta
Post-production producer: Nastja Kotnik Minik
Public relations: Urska Comino (Maska), Helena Grahek (Mladinsko)
Graphic designer: Mina Fina – grupa Ee
Production: Nova pošta (Maska Ljubljana and Slovensko mladinsko gledališče)
Co-production: City of Women
Partnership: Igralke Collective
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