Autobiography performance by Grega Zorc
A vase, a candle, sunglasses, a trumpet. Those are things Grega needs for the story about the death of his parents and about how similar are dilemmas on which gravestone to put on his parents’ grave and on how to make a performance. “My sisters had been thinking about what mum’s and dad’s grave should be like for five years. For five years they were uncompromising: our memory will be modest – but not shy, intimate – but not sentimental, sincere – but not pathetic. Grega has similar ambitions and problems with his performance. His story goes back to year 2002, when he re-enacted the funeral of his parents (Starting point: Anger) for the first time…
Conceived and written by Grega Zorc in Bojan Jablanovec
Performer: Grega Zorc
Direction: Bojan Jablanovec
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Via Negativa, 2009, with the support by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana
Premiere: 6 October 2009, The Old Power Station Ljubljana
Duration: 35 min