BADco. invites you to the premiere and reprise performances of our new project, rePUBLIC IN THE ORCHESTRA PIT!

Premiere: 20.10.2019 at Croatian National Theater "Ivan pl. Zajc".
Reprise performances: 28.10. and 31.10.2019 at CNT "Ivan pl. Zajc"
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That artists have tried to change the world is not news. Nor that they tried to save it. But what if neither change nor prospects of salvation are certain, when the threatening catastrophe bestows only way out - to do the impossible? Today, when philosophers claim that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, when utopia has become a derogatory word, and the certainty of catastrophe disarms our imagination, we decide to exercise and practice the impossible.
This production offers the viewers a unique perspective on the theater space by positioning itself into the orchestra pit - the bowels of the theater machine, but also in the place whose future depends directly on the coming climate change and sea level rise.
The production rePUBLIC IN THE ORCHESTRA PIT finalizes a year-long project started in Chicago, continued in Zagreb, and premiered as a whole in the Croatian National Theater "Ivan pl. Zajc" in Rijeka in collaboration with Italian and Croatian Drama and the theater collective BADco. In this three-part production we return to historical attempts at artistic intervention into reality, from the modernist republics led by writers Ernst Toller and Gabriele D'Annunzio, through the trans-lingual and visual interventions in public space (Paolo Scheggi, Vito Acconci), to tarantist attempts at performing impossible choreographies (Goat Island) or impossible music compositions (John Cage).

Director: Goran Sergej Pristaš
Dramaturgs: Nataša Antulov / Tomislav Medak 
Choreographer: Nikolina Pristaš
Choreographic collaborator: Zrinka Užbinec
Set designer: Igor Eškinja
Costume designer: Arhiv BADco. - Silvio Vujičić
Installation and integral reconstruction: Oplà stick: the Passion according to Paolo Scheggi
Music: John Cage, Etudes Boreales
Translation: Marta Schwaiger
Video: Marin Lukanović
Video and film materials used: Goat Island, The Sea And Poison; Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, An Andalusian Dog
Performers: Ivna Bruck / Ana Kreitmeyer / Marta Krešić / Aleksandra Stojaković Olenjuk / Petar Kovačić
Stage manager: Sandra Čarapina
Producer of BADco.: Lovro Japundžić

Co-production: Italian Drama and Croatian Drama of CNT "Ivan pl. Zajc", BADco., Chicago Cultural Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb

The production is inspired by the works of Edvard Munch, Ernst Toller, Gabriele D' Annunzio, John Cage, Vito Acconci, Paolo Scheggi, Goat Island, Karen Brodine and the native women of the western Amazon.

Special thanks to Cosima and Franca Scheggi for granting the rights to the reconstruction of Paolo Scheggi's Oplà stick: the Passion according to Paolo Scheggi.

Thank you: Lin Hixson, Karen Christopher, Matthew Goulish, Mark Jeffery, Bryan Saner, Nicholas Lowe, Sarah Skaggs, John Rich, Jasna Jakšić, Drugo more.

The production of rePUBLIC IN THE ORCHESTRA PIT was supported by Zagreb City Council for Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.
The work of BADco. is supported by the Foundation Kultura nova.
The production was prepared in Culture Center Novi Zagreb and Chicago Cultural Center.