Katarina Morano, Žiga Divjak
Seven Days
People and animals are alike in many ways. Our common characteristic is, for instance, the basic fear – fear of death.During the evolution, both were endowed with inborn survival instincts striving to keep us alive. However, humans, in contrast to animals, are the only beings aware of death’s inevitability, the only beings aware that they will have to die. We are separated from death only by time, and limited time. However, for most of us, it is impossible to predict how much time. This bestows priceless value on the time given to us.
Seven Days, 2019
Drama
World premiere
Performance length is 2 hours and 30 minutes and has 1 pause.
Creators
Director
Žiga Divjak
Dramaturg
Katarina Morano
Set designer
Barbara Kapelj
Costume designer
Tina Pavlović
Composer
Blaž Gracar
Video designer
Domen Martinčič
Language consultant
Martin Vrtačnik
Lighting designer
Boštjan Kos
Student assistant director
Žiga Hren
Actors
Silva Čušin/Jette Ostan Vejrup
Matej Puc
Mojca Funkl
Ajda Smrekar
Lotos Vincenc Šparovec
Iztok Drabik Jug k. g.
The basis of the author’s project Seven Days is the feeling that the constant rush to try and ensure ourselves a better or calmer future ever so often makes us lose our grip on the individual day. This is to be a performance tackling the life of ordinary people, who in line with their best abilities try to survive week by week, hoping it won’t extend to year by year. It is to be a performance on the ordinary human, who despite the fact that the world he belongs to is heading for a certain disaster, must cultivate his »garden« that has not been thriving for a long time as it used to (if it ever thrived), or is thriving only to the extent that the ordinary man persists in hope or even without it. He strives to survive so badly that he almost forgets that perhaps he is not even living.
Seven Days is an omnibus of fates we are sharing streets with, as well as blocks of flats, office desks, cashier lines in shopping malls, wardrobes at swimming pools, toilets in our favorite bar, it is an omnibus of fates with which we line up at tables in popular restaurants, fates we share our fate with.
Director Žiga Divjak, only 27 years old, has been awarded Best Director at Maribor Theatre Festival 2017 for his first staging in an institutional theatre (The Man Who Watched the World, Mladinsko Theatre), while in 2018, at the same festival the performance 6 under his direction (co-produced by Maska Ljubljana and Mladinsko Theatre) was awarded Borštnik Grand Prix.
This is Žiga Divjak’s first directing in Ljubljana City Theatre. Together with dramaturg Katarina Morano, his regular collaborator, they
have envisioned a performance »on the seven moments slowly filling the bottle to the brim« …
The basis of the author’s project Seven Days is the feeling that the constant rush to try and ensure ourselves a better or calmer future ever so often makes us lose our grip on the individual day.
In the performance we used a short part and arrangement of the song Your Morning by Vlado Kreslin.
Special thanks to Jaro Zorc (voice on the phone), Gregor Zorc, Maja Križnik, Goran Lukić, Counceling Office for Workers, Živa Divjak and Maja Ava Žiberna.
Nagrade
2021
Maribor Theatre Festival
Matej Puc - Borštnik Award for acting
Blaž Gracar - Borštnik Award for Music
2020
Jette Ostan Vejrup - Sever Award
for her role of Clytemnestra in Zinnie Harris's This Restless House (MGL) and Frau Imelda in Theresie Walser's I'm Like You, I Love Apples (MGL) and for her roles in Scientific cabaret After motifs of Y. N. Harari’s texts 2020 (MGL, SNG Dramo Ljubljana and CD).
Matej Puc - Dnevnik Award