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Jan Krmelj

The Lives of Others

Original title: Življenje drugih
After the Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck`s film
World premiere of stage adaptation

Director

Jan Krmelj

Opening night

31 January 2020
Small Stage

Duration:

110 minutes

Creators

Creative team

DRAMATURG

Diana Koloini

Drama Igralec: Diana Koloini | odpri ustvarjalca

COMPOSER

Silence (Boris Benko, Primož Hladnik)

Drama Igralec: Silence (Boris Benko, Primož Hladnik) | odpri ustvarjalca

SET DESIGNER

Jan Krmelj

Drama Igralec: Jan Krmelj | odpri ustvarjalca

COSTUME DESIGNER

Špela Ema Veble

Drama Igralec: Špela Ema Veble | odpri ustvarjalca

LIGHTING DESIGNERS

Jan Krmelj, Vlado Glavan

Drama Igralec: Jan Krmelj, Vlado Glavan | odpri ustvarjalca

LANGUAGE CONSULTANT

Kristina Anželj

Drama Igralec: Kristina Anželj | odpri ustvarjalca

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Nika Prusnik Kardum

Drama Igralec: Nika Prusnik Kardum | odpri ustvarjalca

ASSISTANT SET DESIGNER

Mila Peršin

Drama Igralec: Mila Peršin | odpri ustvarjalca

Cast

Janez ŠkofDrama Igralec: Janez Škof | odpri igralca

Gerd H. Wiesler

Uroš FürstDrama Igralec: Uroš Fürst | odpri igralca

Georg Dreyman

Saša MihelčičDrama Igralec: Saša Mihelčič | odpri igralca

Christa-Maria Sieland

1984, East Berlin. A secret service agent supervises uninterruptedly a playwright and his partner, an actress. His eavesdropping and witnessing of all the dimensions of love in their lives transforms his view of the world – and his own role in it.
What is it that attracts us so strongly to the lives of others? Is it, perhaps, to do with our own search of what we are – or maybe what we are not? This is a basic nuclear reaction of theatre. Empathy has enormous power. Perhaps history exists only so that we can change the present through it. Perhaps we can observe our future in the lives of others.
The future enters us in order to transform us long before it happens. Today is not the year 1984 and we are not in East Berlin. We are not part of any apparent totalitarianism. The society of surveillance remains though, but we can no longer embody it in one single apparatchik, one culprit and one name. Perhaps, this is why any change is more difficult to achieve: the perpetrator of repression in a democratic society is the capitalist machine, invisible and faceless. Perhaps it was easier when we could attribute a face to evil. Perhaps it was easier when we knew what we should not say. When everything seems to be possible, there is no possibility left to us, no alternative.

Lenin refused to listen to Beethoven’s Appassionata because every time he listened to it, he felt an irresistible urge to caress people’s heads and speak gentle words, but he felt that he had to strike their heads without mercy. Love and art can change politics precisely therein where it actually begins: in an individual.

It is imperative to listen to what can change us.
It is imperative to listen to what we are not.

Jan Krmelj

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