Rrose Sélavy
Rapture
The author of the text states in the introductory note: the production must not be marketed under her name and actual title.
This witty and lucid intervention is only an introduction to the author's procedure of playing with reality; it is an invitation to the rupture that is fundamental to theatre: truth and fiction interact in a constant play with our expectations.
This intervention is not occurring by chance: the story we are telling cost both protagonists their lives; even if we
see their death as a conspiracy theory, it is hypothetically possible that the information about their lives and work has been deleted from the web – a process often used by companies and countries. Data about our lives is worth more than oil - and it also drives more digital machines and their profits than the motor vehicles do.
Rupture, 2022
Psihološki triler
Prva slovenska uprizoritev
Premiere: 26. October 2023
Performance length is 2 hours and 30 minutes and has 1 pause.
Creators
Translator
Vesna Hauschild
Director
Jan Krmelj
Dramaturg
Petra Pogorevc
Set designer
Lin Japelj
Video designer
Dorian Šilec Petek
Costume designer
Brina Vidic
Composers
Val Fürst and Pavel Panon Raščan
Language consultant
Martin Vrtačnik
Lighting designer
Boštjan Kos
Sound designer
Sašo Dragaš
Assistant to director
Lučka Neža Peterlin
Adaptation by creators of the performance.
Actors
Lucy Kirkwood
Ajda Smrekar
Celeste
Diana Kolenc k. g.
Noah
Jernej Gašperin
Stage manager
Boris Kerč
Rrose Sélavy is the alter ego of Marcel Duchamp, the founder of conceptual art. The choice of this reference stems from the fascinating association between his insights into the fact that reality is an interplay of contexts and illusions, which we choose to believe in and attribute meaning to, and the processes of the text that generate a kind of performative deepfake. Perhaps, it is in this very act of processing that theatre truly mirrors reality: it is an interplay of our expectations and beliefs, of the taken-for-granted, which the theatrical event inverts. To look at reality as ready-made is a procedure that is crucial to understanding documentary principles – at the same time it is an act of emancipation, since it allows for a radical look at the ideology of the present. Reality is always in the making: it is defined by the choices we make, the way we live and the position in which we are placed.
