Director
Matjaž Zupančič
The Hallway
First production
Co-producer B-51 Cultural Society (Ex Ponto)
Opening night
24 September 2004
Small Stage
Duration:
100 minutes
Matjaž Zupančič’s play The Corridor (2002) depicts the background of one of the television programmes belonging to the socalled reality TV. Seven young people take part in the show where the cameras shoot them night and day while viewers vote for their favourite person. This is a drop-out game: anyone who cannot last or breaks the rules or is not favoured by viewers must leave the show. The last one who remains, is the winner and is richly rewarded. Zupančič’s paly, naturally, does not show what television viewers see but rather what is going on in the corridor, the only room without cameras and microphones. There the competitors can relax and be sincere, at least they think so. Since life in front of cameras is anything but simple and the audience’s expectations grow rapidly, the corridor is becoming the place of increasingly tensed scenes, fights and various fits. The competitors gradually begin to lose their nerves and the game becomes crueller nad pitiless…
Matjaž Zupančič (1959) is a director and writer, as well as a professor of directing at the Academy for theatre, radio, film and television in Ljubljana.35th Festival of Slovene Drama in Kranj
Creators
Cast
Awards
2006
Veljko Maričić Award at the 13th International Small Scene Theatre Festival Rijeka for the best costume design (also) for this production
2005
Rudi Šeliga Award for best production on 35th Festival of Slovene Drama, Kranj
2004
Best spectators’ rating on EX PONTO International Festival
2003
Grum’s Award 2003 for best play
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Festivali
2006
13th International Small Scene Theatre Festival Rijeka
2005
35th Festival of Slovene Drama in Kranj
Sterijevo pozorje Novi Sad
ICA in London 10-15 october 2005 Presentation of Slovenian Culture in United Kingdom
Maribor Theatre Festival
2004
EX PONTO International Festival, Ljubljana
Guest performance in Klagenfurt, Austria
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