Glej Theatre has been a milestone of the Slovenian fringe scene.
Founded in 1970, the first among experimental theatres that were
emerging in the seventies, Glej launched a wholly new
generation of authors, directors and actors as well as an aesthetics
that put Slovenia on the theatrical map through successful
participation in several international festivals. Glej lived
through the nineties with young and more radical groups of artists who
are further developing the non-verbal, physical performing art
expression.
Su and Sid, as most of the director’s performances, is also a dance
performance. This time the usual combination of dancing and acting is
supplemented by events shown on three television
screens, which the actors move around on the stage by means of special
stands. The original score (composed by MC Brane especially for this
performance) is occasionally interrupted by Sinatra, Sex Pistols and
dialogues from tapes for fast learning of foreign languages. In this
way the author separates what is happening into two levels: reality and
fiction. Here and there these two levels interleave and extend over one
another.
The topic and motives of the performance are taken from the everyday world. The central
character, a guy named Sid, is defined by his relationship with three
women: his wife, his mistress and his girlfriend. The full world,
almost too full, sometimes drives him into the realm of fantasies, but
sometimes even into a suicidal state. In that state he expresses his
fury and rage by tormenting and torturing himself and by listening to
Sex Pistols. |