The Plumber
Zagreb, Croatia
16 Oct '09
The Plumber is a chamber ballet based on Boris Vian's motifs, a black-humor French writer, poet, composer, singer, chansonnier, jazz critic, engineer, translator, inventor; in general – there are few fields of art or science Vian was not interested in, and which he did not deal with. Inspired by his collection of novels – “The Ants”, we came up with a new story; libretto on which score will be based, on which then The Plumber will be based.
As every ballet, The Plumber is also a gauge where the roads of music material meet, performed by five instruments, five musicians and one laptop, with a libretto played out by two female performers, two male performers and one bridge. Plumber’s characters move within a grey area between play and dance, best described by the term movement.
The Plumber is a shocking story about places and times that were never caught by war, so those times and places had to catch the war themselves. It is the story about neighborly relations and the history of harassing; about the soldiers on Cognac, whores in delirium, students up to their knees in water and girls in a minefield.
This ballet is a story about normal people turned into monsters, or at least weirdoes, through Vian’s perception. Major, Garamuche and Noemi are probably mediocrities becoming distorted caricatures only in the perception of Vian’s character – a student – on his final year of tombstone masonry.
The Plumber is a black ballet. It could not be white because its score and libretto are black, and the humor depends on the colors of flags under which it is being performed.
Background Information
The Student Centre is a multifunctional space in the heart of Zagreb, centre of students with different orientations, areas of interest and activities. Besides the student population, the SC also gathers together cultural workers, artists, and visual arts, music, performing arts and film lovers. With its music, visual arts, theatre, film and radio program, the Culture of Change creates a number of interesting projects, workshops, concerts and festivals which visitors can enjoy on daily basis. Aiming to actively and systematically incorporate students into the creation of programs within the Student Centre, The Culture of Change features a NON STOP COMPETITION throughout the whole year, to which students, student organizations, organizations promoting urban culture and youth culture can apply with interesting, educative, multidiscipline, multimedia and progressive projects. All the accepted programs will get a free space for the realization of the program, technical help and the organizational help provided by the Culture of Change staff. This way The Festival of Experience, festival of Indian culture Way to India, etc, have all taken place in the premises of the Student Centre. At the end of the theatre season (May, June) there is a competition for theatre, dance and performance projects involving bigger financial support, but the proposers can nevertheless contact us throughout the whole year. This way, in cooperation of proposers and the Culture of Change, the programs such as Zagreb Film Festival, Zagreb Dox, Festival of the New Circus, international comic festival “Crtani romani šou”, etc, have been realized. The Culture of Change is, and will try to be in the future, open for all interesting initiatives and conceptions of programs, especially of the younger authors and students.
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- Theatre & TD, Semicircular Hall
- Choreographer
- Natalija Manojlovic
- Address
- Zagreb
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