WITHOUT
Janja Vidmar – Simona Hamer, Eva Nina Lampič
2010 Golden Stick Award for best drama text for children and youth.
Premiere Performance
Directed by: Eva Nina Lampič
Dramaturgy: Simona Hamer
Set design: Danijel Modrej
Costume design: Gordana Bobojević
Music: JAMirko (Mirko Vičentič Polič)
Songs: Jose, Murat & Jose (Now I know)
Proof read by: Tatjana Stanič
Light design: Srečo Brezovar
PERFORMERS:
Simi: Jan Bučar
Lejla: Ana Hribar
Mrki: Jure Lajovic
Simi’s mother: Nina Ivanič
Simi’s step father: Iztok Valič
Prof. Leskovšek: Nina Skrbinšek
Premiere: 5th October 2011, Stage Under the Stars
Stage manager and sound master: Emil Koprivc
Lights: Mirsad Vrević
Prop masters and stage technicians: Darko Nedeljković, Tomo Hvastja
Set and props made by: Iztok Bobić, Zoran Srdić
Wardrobe, hair and make-up: Emina Kaliman
CRIME
If ya wanna fly up high, dough is your fare, set to go and don’t ask where. Any time, any where, just be ready, they don’t care You need your smarts, and business wise, just don’t be bad. They use the bad, they never pay. No crime, no hawkin’ - I’d be gone by now, would not be milking this cash cow. Crime does pay and crime’s da game, so, yo, my fried, why don’t ya play?
(Emir Rešić)
Simi hates school, and hopelessly yearns for Lejla, the most beautiful girl in the world, to whom he dedicates most of his rap songs; he fights with his mother who’s seeing a new guy, he visits his father in jail, smokes weed and messes with petty theft and hawking technical toys. This rapidly grows out of its seemingly innocent bounds, and becomes more than Simi can handle… Will he end up in juvenile detention hall? While meandering from the right to the wrong side of the law, Simi redefines his attitude towards his father, his mother, his step father, and the world.
‘Without’ is a criminally intense, romantically dreamy and honestly alive performance about the search for the right path in chaotic present.
“Janja Vidmar’s teenage play Without is a text about problems, which portrays conflict relations in a family of the central character young delinquent Simi. The dramatic tension is created by the opposition of negative image of the world the young live in and Simi’s love and his poetic creativity, which is appears to be an optional exit from the personal and family crisis. The most distinctive feature of the text is language coloured by slang, a link to modern music and problems of teenagers; in this sense the text is a stylistic and thematic novelty in modern Slovene drama.”
(Excerpt from expert jury’s description)
Appropriate age: For teenagers aged twelve and older
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