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Jean-Luc Lagarce

It’s Only the End of the World

Original title: Juste la fin du monde

First Slovenian production
In coproduction with Mini Theatre Ljubljana and Cie Philippe Calvario
In cooperation with CulturesFrance and Institute français Charles Nodier Ljubljana

Director

Philippe Calvario

Opening night

26 September 2008
Small Stage

Duration:

150 minutes

Creators

Creative team

CO-PRODUCERS

Mini Theatre Ljubljana and Cie Philippe Calvario

Drama Igralec: Mini Theatre Ljubljana and Cie Philippe Calvario | odpri ustvarjalca

TRANSLATOR

Suzana Koncut

Drama Igralec: Suzana Koncut | odpri ustvarjalca

DRAMATURG

Diana Koloini

Drama Igralec: Diana Koloini | odpri ustvarjalca

SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER

Karin Serres

Drama Igralec: Karin Serres | odpri ustvarjalca

COMPOSER

Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar

Drama Igralec: Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar | odpri ustvarjalca

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Anne Gayan

Drama Igralec: Anne Gayan | odpri ustvarjalca

LANGUAGE CONSULTANT

Barbara Korun

Drama Igralec: Barbara Korun | odpri ustvarjalca

INTERPRETER AT REHEARSALS

Jasmina Žgank

Drama Igralec: Jasmina Žgank | odpri ustvarjalca

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Fréderic Michel

Drama Igralec: Fréderic Michel | odpri ustvarjalca

The performance It’s Only the End of the World is the first presentation of the work of Jean-Luc Lagarce (1957-1995) in Slovenia.

When Jean-Luc Lagarce passed away (he died of AIDS) on September 30th 1995 he was well-known as a director, but not as an author. His fame has steadily grown since his death and today Jean-Luc Lagarce is considered a classic contemporary author. If he did not achieve fame during his lifetime, perhaps it is because the theatrical language of his plays was too unconventional and innovative. Today he is one of the favourite playwrights of drama classes, an author who is worshipped by amateur theatre groups and increasingly appreciated by top directors, all generations combined. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. It has also inspired conferences, university theses and a multitude of publications.

It’s Only the End of the World regards a long-estranged young man who returns home for dinner one Sunday to inform his family of his illness and impending death. The play combines uniquely poetic and humorous language with a strangely disjointed dramatic structure. Funny, probing, touching, and more than anything deeply gentle toward the imperfections of the family he was about to leave behind, Lagarce rewrote The World several times in the last five years of his life (final version in 1990, enlarged into Distant Land in the very last days of his life).

more about the author
http://www.lagarce.net/?lng=en

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