IN THE SOLITUDE OF THE COTTON FIELDS
Theatre mladinsko, Ljubljana - Slovenia
 
    Friday, October 9 - 10pm   YOUTH CULTURAL CENTRE
 
Directed by:  Nik Upper
 
Cast 
Male sex- Female sex Olga Grad (Dealer)    Alenka Tetickovic (Client) 
Perfomer: Niko Gorsic 

Dramaturgy:            Ivica Buljan 
Scenography:          Marko Japelj 
Costumes:              Svetlana Visintin/Leo Kulis 
Choreography:        Barbara Plocko / Sanja Neskovik 
Music:                    Yma Sumac, Xenia, Res Nullius,  Charlie Chaplin 
Mask:                     Alan Hranitelj, Joze Kunej, Miljenko Sekulic 
Photography:           Dejan Habitch 
Puppet’s animation: Robert Waltl 

The sky is black, the earth is blue. 
(Jurij Gagarin) 
I am convinced the man is the solitary being.  
(Gabriel G. Marquez)   

 
In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields deals with the life of the people who live in shadows, on the edge, in the night. Their conscience and their expression, their sexuality and gentleness go outside of the rational currents of official culture. The desperation of everyday life, the thirstiness and the hate in the violence and hurting, the racism are the subjects of Koltes’ writing. The heroes know about the impossibility of love, the exchange and the solitude which flow through them and are slowly killing them. Their will to live is great eventhough they are judged, their passion is very strong and there is a disagreement in the lucidity of the despair. Koltes’ heroes are not ashamed of the cries that painfully tear them apart in the endless solitude. They recognize the announced death staring into the sex and the impossible. Koltes’ theatre is a theatre of dealing, exchanging. It is about drugs, guns, sex, identity of sexes. Nick Upper’s performance insists on the deal being a wheel of civilization’s progress and its self-destruction