So To Speak: Antigone + On Rumours

Gregor Moder: ANTIGONE
Performers: Gregor Moder and 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.

Mladen Dolar: ON RUMOURS
Performers: Mladen Dolar and Blaž Šef

Two years ago, during the pandemic, one of the most influential European philosophers Mladen Dolar took the stage and performed a theatre essay titled Virus. He playfully tackled the most well-worn-out 'viral' theme of our time. Through historical, linguistic and literary wormholes he shed light on the then situation from hitherto unimagined perspectives. In addition, musical, theatrical and lexical references were imaginatively illuminated by the actor Blaž Šef. Dolar and Šef return to stage with an essay on rumours, gossip and related matters.

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So To Speak – A Cycle of Theatre Essays
Curator: Boštjan Narat
Advisor: Jernej Potočan
Co-production: The New Post Office (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Ljubljana) and Moment Maribor