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Presnyakov Brothers

Playing a Victim

Theatre of the absurd, as performed by the police

Presnyakov Brothers

Playing a Victim

Izobražaja žertvu

First Slovene production

PREMIERE

24. april 2008

Valya, a rather lazy student, inclined to avoid any effort in life, has found an unusual way to make a living: he plays the victim in police crime-scene reenactments. A special police unit is there to reconstruct recent crimes – in the authentic environment, with the help of actual suspects. And Valya is always the victim, used by the criminal to demonstrate why and how he killed …
The absurdity of the situation – the criminal is identified, caught and prosecuted, and the investigators reconstruct the crime simply in order to satisfy the rigid bureaucratic regulations – is intensified when we learn about the senseless, mostly petty and banal reasons and motives for the crimes …

24. 4. 2008, 20.30. SNG Nova Gorica.

25. 4. 2008, 20.30. SNG Nova Gorica.

10. 5. 2008, 20.30. SNG Nova Gorica.

11. 5. 2008, 19.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

15. 5. 2008, 20.30. SNG Nova Gorica.

28. 5. 2008, 20.30–20.30. SNG Nova Gorica.

31. 5. 2008, 20.30. SNG Nova Gorica.

14. 6. 2008, 20.30. SNG Nova Gorica.

19. 6. 2008, 21.00. Dani satire Zagreb, Croatia. - CANCELLED

12. 9. 2008, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

5. 3. 2021, 12.00. splet.