SoToSpeak: Antigone + Noli me tangere + Knitting Reveries

Gregor Moder: ANTIGONE
Performers: Gregor Moder, Katarina Stegnar

‘How can reading Antigone help us navigate through the problems of the modern world? We need to be very clear on that – it cannot help us at all.’ The introductory emphasis of the philosopher Gregor Moder’s essay, which the author performs together with Katarina Stegnar, seems to question the point of what they are doing. But philosophy likes to dig in places where digging seems pointless, even more, it is there where it usually digs out the most valuable knowledge. In the never-ending task of understanding the moment, we will use Sophocles, Hegel, a cube and a shovel to help us. Without the latter, digging cannot even be attempted.

Draga Potočnjak: NOLI ME TANGERE
Performers: Draga Potočnjak, Klemen Kovačič

Can we tell the difference between the artist and the art? And if yes – how do we do it? In the theatre essay Noli me tangere by the author and actor Draga Potočnjak, her co-performer Klemen Kovačič is half-seriously faced with this task, but actually only so that he, together with Draga, can face something more essential – why do we only ask these questions when the artist is burdened with the baggage of problematic political or personal points of view and inappropriate or even criminal acts? Handke, Riefenstahl, Rupnik? These stories often embarrass us so we tackle them with our gloves on, but Draga and Klemen take them off in their essay and without mercy delve deep into the subject matter.

Bojana Kunst: KNITTING REVERIES
Performers: Bojana Kunst, Damjana Černe

'Everything is entangled, which is why you have to be very careful when you start knitting. Count the stitches carefully and make sure they don’t escape from the needle. Once you’ve knitted something, it will be easier, but if you’re not careful, it will fall apart, knot up and you’ll have to count again.' That’s what Gran used to say to little Bojana. So many years later, they are talking again – this time on a theater stage and at the intersection between feminism, politics, ethics and ecology, in a mix of memory and reflection. Care is not only an intimate commitment; it is also a political question. In her theatre essay, Bojana Kunst, along with her co-performer Damjana Černe, reflects on it and weaves it with caution, depth and care.

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SoToSpeak – a cycle of theatre essays

Essayists: Mija Kramar, Dr Bojana Kunst, Dr Gregor Moder, Draga Potočnjak, Marko Radmilovič

Curator: Boštjan Narat

Adviser: Jernej Potočan

Co-production: The New Post Office (Mladisnko Theatre and Maska Ljubljana) and Moment Maribor