Thewomen's tasks: hemming, knotting, knitting, weaving

THE WOMEN'S TASKS: HEMMING, KNOTTING, KNITTING, WEAVING
By Barbara Kapelj

PREMIERE AND RERUNS

LJUBLJANA, MODERNA GALERIJA, 07. 12. 2000
LJUBLJANA, CLUB K4, 31. 01. 2001

ABOUT …

Bits of women's dailiness. Bits from books, music, film and television. Bits of history and memory. Historical memory. Bits of life, here and now. Fundamental and unimportant bits. But so much more universal. These are the women's tasks. This theatre does not want to be an wnswer, it is no longer a mirror., but rather a state of things. Our binding is the life itself. The weaving machine through which we have drawn our threads and put it into operation …

We hammed, knotted, knitted and wove stories. We composed, arranged and sewed them., and then tear them apart again. We swam into countless roles which we have been playing every day, here and now. We wove the women's tasks. Our work is but one attempt at the mistification of the figure of woman, redefintion of icons and verification of the state of things. Just what we women have been always been doing. Just like our icons, Svetlana, Laurie, Suzanne; just like Pipilotti, Gertrude, Marguerite … Just like all of us. This is what we wanted to tell with this production. And if succeeded at least a bit, the intended has been woven.

CAST & CREW

Directing and set design: Barbara Kapelj
Weavers: Damjana Černe, Bara Kolenc, Romana Šalehar Assistant director: Branka Maček
Set designer’s assistant: Ana Kapelj in Aleša Korpić
Dramaturgy: Amelia Kraigher
Music: Bojana Šaljić
Video: Tanja Vujinović
Costume design: Urša Draž
Philosophy: Sabina Autor
Set producer: Jože Zajc
Production and public relations: Nataša Zavolovšek for Maska Productions
Premiere: 07.12.2000, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana

Texts: Laurie Anderson, Simone de Beauvoir, Slavenka Drakulić, Marguerite Duras, Jenny Holtzer, Dorian Leader, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Naomi Wolf, Virginia Woolf.

BIOS

Barbara Kapelj, freelance artist, director and architect, set up and costume designer was born on 30th of September in Kranj, Slovenia. In 1994 she admitted Faculty for architecture where she achieved Bachelor of Science in February 2002. She won a Sever’s Prize for theatre in 1993 and has directed some very unique performing arts productions in the last decade. At the moment she’s working on new concept of theatre play “The Triumph of Active Tenderness” in Experimental Theatre Glej in Ljubljana.

NOTE

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