Nejc Gazvoda
Silent Breath
A year after their father`s unexpected death, an estranged family reunites to see the yolungest daughter off as she leaves to study in Ljubljana.
The youngest, whom the family calls Kiddo, has got two siblings, both more than ten years her senior, and a mother who does not understand her (or any of her kids). The whole family has been affected by the loss of the father more than they are willing to admit. Petra, who lives with her boyfriend Janez in Ljubljana, is going thorugh a sad phase. Her brother Marjan, the eldest of the siblings, still lives at home and seems to have given up on life.
As the play opens, Kiddo retells the family story froma perspective in which the people around her are no longer what they used to be, some of them are not even present anymore. Silent Breath is a one-act play about a family whose little tragedies are the tragedies of us all, a play that is reluctant to judge what we are, bur merely observes the parts in which we are the most human.
Silent Breath, 2018
Drama
World premiere
Performance length is 1 hour and 50 minutes and has no pause.
Creators
Director
Nejc Gazvoda
Dramaturg
Eva Mahkovic
Set designer
Darjan Mihajlović Cerar
Costume designer
Andrej Vrhovnik
Composer
Laren Polič Zdravič
Language consultant
Maja Cerar
Lighting designer
Boštjan Kos
Actors
Kiddo
Lara Wolf k. g.
In Silent Breath the author does not only dissect a typical Slovenian family, but explores feelings of being lost and lacking any prospects, as well the burning ambition of the generation Y, and other most up-to-date features of Slovenian everyday reality.
In his new play, commissioned by the Ljubljana City Theatre, Nejc Gazvoda (1985) continues to explore family pathologies he elaborated in his earlier play Changing of the Guard and a theatre crime series Crow Gate. With Silent Breath, the multi-awarded author, screenwriter, film and theatre director, hailed as one of the most distinguished voices of his generation, will present himself for the first time in a double role on the Main Stage. In Silent Breath he does not only dissect a typical Slovenian family, but explores feelings of being lost and lacking any prospects, as well the burning ambition of the generation Y, and other most up-to-date features
of Slovenian everyday reality.
Silent Breath is a one-act play about a family whose little tragedies are the tragedies of us all.
Awards
2019
54th Maribor Theatre Festival
Nejc Gazvoda – Borštnik award for Dramatic Text (Original Play)
for original play The Silent Breath staged and produced by the Ljubljana City Theatre
Jure Henigman - Dnevnik award
for the role of Marjan (and for the role of Michonnin de la Briva in H. de Balzac's Mercadet and for the role of Orgon in Molière's Tartuffe)
49th Week of Slovenian Drama
Nejc Gazvoda- The Slavko Grum award for Best play
Mirjam Korbar - "Duša Počkaj" award for acting
by Slovenian Association of Dramatic Artists (ZDUS) for the role of Katarina in Silent Breath and for the role of Sofía Cuevas in the performance in A. Tabares's Peak of the Iceberg.