Physical-visual performance inspired by a banal story about increasing aversion among people, which suggests that this is one way in which extremism is born. Based on the real-life story of a woman in a small town in southern Slovakia, who terrorised her neighbours by playing the same aria Di Quella Pira sang by Placido Domingo from six in the morning to ten at night in an endless loop – for 15 years.
Written, directed and performed by Sláva Daubnerová Stage and costume design: Sláva Daubnerová Choreography: Renata Ptačin Music and sound design: Matej Gyárfáš Voiceover: Ján Gallovič, Petra Vajdová, Sláva Daubnerová Light design: Slavomír Šmálik Lights: Jan Ptačin Sound: Boris Adamčík Production: P.A.T.platform for contemporary theatre Premiere: December 18, 2015, Sľuk
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava SelfGoverning Region, Literary Fund
Awards: Nominations in categories The Best Production and The Best Direction of the season 2016 in Dosky Awards, Nomination for Tatra Banka Foundation Prize for Art 2016 in category Theatre, Student’s Jury Award at the New drama 2016 festival
Selected festivals: Raising the Velvet Curtain festival London 2019, Nová dráma/ New drama, Bratislava 2016, International festival Divadelná Nitra 2016, International festival Divadlo Plzeň 2016, Touches and Connections festival Martin 2016, Akcent 2019- International festival of documentary theatre Prague, Multi-Genre festival Mobilis Liptovský Mikuláš 2019, Industra Brno 2019, Moving Station Plzeň 2019, Creative Days For You festival Divadlo Štúdio tanca Banská Bystrica 2016, Pro-téza – festival of author’s theatre Bratislava 2016, Festival Vlnoplocha – Czechoslovak festival of progressive theatre Banská Štiavnica 2016
"Sláva Daubnerová (1980), Slovak performer, director and author, carries out an intensive documentary research within the scope of selected themes, which she subjects to her own, authorial interpretation. In her physical expression, she usually achieves aesthetically unique intermedia projects. An example of this is the highly appreciated Solo lamentoso (2015), which was particularly well received by the theatre and critic community. In it, Daubnerová gives an account of “singing house” case in Štúrovo, which has been given a broad mass media coverage. It was a story of a woman, who was a nuisance to her neighbourhood: for fourteen years, every single day, she would pester her neighbours by putting on reproduced music, an aria sung by Plácido Domingo. In this case, too, the author, director and performer Sláva Daubnerová got hold of an almost unbelievable-sounding theme, all via the documentary approach – her own targeted research of a real case. Through this case emerged a noteworthy theme with a wider reach: the human right against society in defence of their freedom/independence… By combining music, movement, accompanying words of the protagonist, excerpts of authentic television shots, Sláva Daubnerová expresses man’s solitude." Miroslav Ballay
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