Theatre

“Matilda is a woman; at least, she usually looks like one. She is not an artist; however, she does find inspiration in ordinary things, like bananas and monkeys, swimming pools and milk, spandex and leotards, disco dancing, her breasts, and[]

For years, the City of Women Festival and Emanat have successfully collaborated in the organisation of various workshops, and one of more notable has to do with the genre of burlesque and cabaret. The first such workshop in 2011 was conducted[]

For years, the City of Women Festival and Emanat have successfully collaborated in the organisation of various workshops, and one of more notable has to do with the genre of burlesque and cabaret. The first such workshop in 2011 was conducted[]

Simona Semenič’s first solo theatre piece entitled I, Victim. premiered in the context of the 13th City of Women Festival in 2007. The autobiographical text and performance that Simona directed and performed herself dealt with her[]

Upon a special jubilee and utterly festive anniversary of the City of Women, this year’s celebration is also joined by Image Snatchers, which will seduce the audience with their bittersweet vignettes of distortion, mocking, travesty and[]

Štefka Drolc and Iva Zupančič; two brilliant Slovene theatre and film actresses, meet in a forest of memories where they talk about their lives. They go back to their childhood, their youth, to the source of their creative efforts. They go[]

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“Man is only an experiment, opposed by time, inevitability, fate and a stupid, constantly growing stronger prerogative of numbers. Humanity will kill man.” (Marguerite Yourcenar) []

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The actress enacts her own death as a deeply intimate and extremely theatrical sensation all at the same time. Drop Dead is a play in which we all must act-out our role: the performer becomes a corpse, the viewer becomes an undertaker, the[]

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In the framework of the Via Negativa projects (Starting Point: Anger [Izhodiščna točka: Jeza], More [Še], Would Would Not [Bi ne bi], Viva Verdi, Four Deaths [4 smrti]), Barbara Kukovec manifests the qualities of a[]

“Nobody is born as an artist. You can just die as an artist.” []

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Screech Orchestra is music, song, and dance. []

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Accompanied by one musician, Hasija Borić tackles the slippery terrain with great skill, a terrain over which more ink than blood has been shed, and still we don't know enough – the Bosnian killings, the political collapse and all[]

The Girl from Nowhere, a solo work by live artist/theatre maker Marisa Carnesky, explores women and displacement, otherness, ethnicity, cultural belonging, sexual identity, and memory, in relation to East European immigrant and refugee women’s[]

‘Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.’ (Leviticus 19: 27–28) []

‘Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.’ (Leviticus 19: 27–28) []

Transsexualism is usually viewed in two very distinct matters: a) as a highly intellectual issue of ''gender sublimation'' that quotes the cults of Cybele or the Greek myths, completely ignoring everyday reality b) as a very[]