Ralf Westhoff
Neighbours
Anne, Johannes and Eddi used to share a flat when they were students, but later in life they went their separate ways. In their old age, they reconnect and decide to live together again. All three are single and miss company, and as pensioners they are tight on money, so sharing the costs will be a good idea for them. They move into their new flat, playfully reminiscing about their turbulent youth, drinking, smoking, having lively discussions and late-night music. But their joy does not last long. In the flat below there live three serious students, who are in the middle of their exam period and have a hard time with elderly party-goers. Not only do they expect the new tenants to provide them with necessary peace, they also insist that they stick to the house rules and take on certain duties. The newcomers, however, do not give a damn about it. Both camps stubbornly insist on their own way of doing things and get involved in an intergenerational conflict, which is wittily turned upside down and defies stereotypical expectations. In this world gone wrong, there are numerous comic complications which, alongside the sparkling dialogue, entertain on the one hand and reveal many bitter truths of today‘s world, on the other. The elderly are upholding the ideals they stood for as members of the student revolutionary movement in the late 1960s, while the younger ones are the individualists of modern society, who are constantly stressed out and who put all their efforts into studying and succeeding, but no longer know how to socialise in a relaxed way. Obviously, the two sides will have to converge at some point ...
Wir sind die Neuen, 2016, odrska adaptacija filma Wir sind die Neuen (2014), 2016
Comedy
Slovenian premiere
Premiere: 6. October 2023
Performance length is 1 hour and 20 minutes and has no pause.
Creators
Translator
Anja Naglič
Director and composer
Tijana Zinajić
Dramaturg
Alenka Klabus Vesel
Set designer
Darjan Mihajlović Cerar
Costume designer
Matic Hrovat
Language consultant
Martin Vrtačnik
Lighting designer
Boštjan Kos
Sound designer
Tomaž Božič
Actors
Anne
Nataša Tič Ralijan
Johannes
Jožef Ropoša
Eddi
Tomo Tomšič
Katharina
Veronika Železnik k. g.
Barbara
Lena Hribar Škrlec
Kaja Petrovič AGRFT
Thorsten
Nejc Jezernik k. g.
Ralf Westhoff (1969) is an award-winning German film director, screenwriter and producer. Neighbours was his first acclaimed film comedy (2014), which won the Grand Prix at the 32nd Filmfest in Munich. Two years later, a charming theatre adaptation was written.
Tijana Zinajić is an established theatre and film director who successfully tackles various genres. At Ljubljana City Theatre, she has staged with great subtlety the poignant plays For Our Young Ladies by Dragica Potočnjak, Further Than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris and That Face by Polly Stenham. Tijana Zinajić is undoubtedly an exceptional master of comedy. For her direction of Jure Karas' Realists, performed by SNT Nova Gorica, she received the Noble Director Award at the 2019 Days of Comedy Festival in Celje. At Ljubljana City Theatre, we have not forgotten Daniel Glattauer's hit The Miracle Exercise, which entertained many viewers on the local Small Stage and all over Slovenia for several years, and in March 2023, Jelena Kajgo's comedy Rollercoaster, also directed by her, premiered at the Ljubljana City Theatre.