At this year's Amphitheatre Symposium, organized by the Slovenian Theatre Institute, the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana and the Amfiteater magazine in cooperation with the International Festival of Contemporary Arts City of Women and the Department of Slovenian Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, we will talk about the roles of playwright, performer, producer, educator, writer, dramaturg and director Simona Semenič.
Free entry!
Program of the symposium
9.45 Registration
10.00 Opening of the symposium
10.05 Artist's position, performance and physicality
Mateja Pezdirc Bartol: Zofka Kveder and Simona Semenič: Slovenian playwrights then and now
Kristina Hagström-Ståhl: Swedish reception of 5fantkov.si
Ljudmil Dimitrov: They're all dead anyway! Bulgarian reception 5.fantkov.si Simone Semenič
Maja Murnik: Bodies of Simone Semenič
11.30-11.45 Break
11.45 Textuality, voice, performativity
Eva Kučera Šmon and Eva Smrekar: Word and Voice: The Performative Code of Simona Semenič's Drama
Eva Pori and Tomaž Toporišič: Simona Semenič's Speech Plots as a Performative Exposing of Language
Ivana Zajc: Simona Semenič's works: "Do Me Again", "I Am a Victim" and "The Second Time Between Monodrama and Performance"
Mia Hočevar: The Motif of Victim in Simona Semenič's Dramas: Typology of Victims
13.15 Discussion and closing remarks
MODERATED BY: Maja Šorli
The symposium was held in cooperation with UL AGRFT within the framework of the research program Theater and inter-art research (P6-0376), which is co-financed by the Public Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia from the state budget.
