Full MoonDream Musical, length 45 min

With magical song and dance, the performance unfolds the paradox about dreams: every night, when we fall asleep, we actually wake up in a dream. Dreams are a peculiar state of wakefulness—a place of play which is not subject to the logics and laws of the daylight vigilance. In Full Moon, the family and the spectators “wake up” in a different reality, in a space that is different than the one they have entered in order to “fall asleep”.

The new text from Nebojša Pop-Tasić, with music from Polona Janežič, mostly takes the form of amusing songs. Employing music, singing, dancing and colourful set and costume designs, the performers create an entertaining display of the playful logic behind dreams, and transform an ordinary bedroom into a vivid space of dream miracles produced by the playful Moon. 

Every object can come to life in our dreams, for we are the ones who enable that. Our creative perception and attitude towards those objects breathe life into them. Thus, dreams are simultaneously a playful analysis, commentary and the poetry of life. Dreams are the space of the human spirit, which is, paradoxically, much broader in comparison with the space that we are able to perceive when we are awake. We could say that dreams are a fairy-tale world living within us.

Premiere: 7 September 2023, Šentjakob Stage LGL

Part of Creative Europe's project Sense (of) Sharing.

Nebojša Pop-Tasić is a versatile artist: dramatist, dramaturge, screenwriter, director, actor, poet, musician and much more. He has worked with Ljubljana Puppet Theatre as writer and dramaturge on several occasions. His fresh take on Anton Ingolič’s classic work Secret Society PGC has been a great success for a few years now.

Sebastjan Starič is a dancer, choreographer, and director. He has directed and created solo choreographies for over twenty-five performances in Slovenia and Austria. His style and expression are based primarily on so-called physical theatre. He started his theatre career fostered by Ksenija Hribar, when he joined her dance group which later became Dance Theatre Ljubljana. In the nineties, he started collaborating with the Ana Monro Theatre as an actor. He was also a member of the Fourclour dance group and worked for a long time side-by-side with choreographer Branko Potočan. He has also collaborated with video cineasts Ema Kugler and Marko Kovačič. Since then he has worked as choreographer, dancer, and actor in various dance and drama performances in professional theatres, as well as in non-governmental productions and groups, and in numerous films. He received many awards for his work. He has worked with the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre before, but never as director.