MandićCircus (dressed)
Bojan Jablanovec • Marko Mandić
Intrigue in the difference
(Eva Kraševec)
“MandićCircus (dressed) already underlines the most obvious difference with its complement in the title, and at the same time, immediately after the premiere of MandićCircus on the big stage of the Ljubljana Drama (06/05/2022), it establishes a field of intrigue, speculating on the difference itself and the reasons for the change. Aware of the context and conditions of performance, MandićCirkus presents a rethinking of performance strategies, the power of interpretation and a test of the acting madness of Marko Mandić to reinvent himself as a medium, actor and author of all the ninety-one roles he has played on stage, while also (re)inventing the role of the absolute actor, testing the limits of his own psycho-physique. If MandićCircus is a nonchalant gesture of subjectivised history, in which the actor “unreservedly confronts the actor and the performer, the artist and the impostor, the exhibitionist and the voyeur, the divine and the banal, the pathology of ambition and the misery of success”, MandićCircus (dressed) presents the same gesture, but with the power of a peculiar comic, even farcical persiflage, and with the surprising production of new meanings, it cuts into the very critique of the production of ideological fiction with a new intensity.” Eva Kraševec: Spectacle – this is my dignity
Photo: Peter Uhan
Photo: Peter Uhan
Photo: Peter Uhan
Photo: Peter Uhan
Photo: Peter Uhan
Photo: Peter Uhan
Photo: Peter Uhan
MandićCircus (dressed)
2022 • Derivative of the performance MandićCircus for the stage of the Mala drama SNG Drama Ljubljana
Solo performance • 115 min
Conceived and devised by — Bojan Jablanovec, Marko Mandić
Performer — Marko Mandić
Direction — Bojan Jablanovec
Set design — Matej Stupica
Music — Samo Kutin
Sound design — Eduardo Raon
Video — Matej Stupica, Stella Ivšek, Jure Lavrin
Light design — Bojan Jablanovec, Mojca Sarjaš
Stage workers — Robi Laznik, David Potočnik, Viktor Čuk, Marko Kržič, Tomislav Samardžija, Aleš Anžič
Prompter — Gaja Pöschl
Producer — Špela Trošt
Production — SNG Drama Ljubljana, Via Negativa
