SNG Maribor Eva Mahkovic

TOXIC

Based on the idea and dramatisation by Nataša Matjašec Rošker

Studio YDT Monday, 25. november 20:30
  • (S)700 RSD
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Duration 1h no interval

Spicy Hot Pop Mess production for women and men who do not shy away from landing in a woman’s brain

All day today I’ve been humming Taylor Swift’s song Anti-Hero: »Itʼs me, hi, Iʼm the problem, itʼs me.«

I walked into a shop and rather than picking up a volume of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Different Women, Convenience Store Woman, The Women I Think of at Night, Female Icons, The Age of Innocence …. I picked up TOXIC.

TOXIC (2023) is the latest auto-fiction novel by the author and playwright Eva Mahkovic. Shortly after its publication it became one of the greatest best-sellers published by Beletrina publishing house.

In her article entitled »Why did you have to say so many things about yourself?«, published in the Razmišljanja column in the Saturday supplement of the Delo, Vesna Milek wrote about TOXIC: »Her style is both kafkian and that of pop-culture. In fact, the two of us have very little in common, except our passion for literature, theatre and the Tudors. Why do I then find so much that reminds me of me in her book? This is because she delved so deeply inside herself and because she said so much about all of us.«

Since 8th March, 2024 TOXIC has been available in its theatrical edition.

The script was written by Eva Mahkovic and adapted for the stage by Nataša Matjašec Rošker. The production adopts the format used by Eva in the chapter of the novel called VERTIGO and the idea of staging »Hot Mess« ups and downs, contemplations.

I’ve allowed the world to change me into THAT. I’ve a stomach-ache. I fear relationships. I fear nearness. I fear that people will abandon me, that I am not enough, that I am naive, a fool who still believes in the idea of PERFECTION.

I think you’d better say something about the environment.

In the past, future probably seemed much brighter, but I have neither the mental nor emotional wherewithal to deal with things that are so much bigger than me, even though today would be an ideal day for some sort of natural disaster to take place, something that is only to be expected in a world undergoing an ecological crisis.

MIU MIU GLITTER PANTYS

XX once said that she’d have had much more sex with men if she hadn’t worried about the morals of it and what people would say.

 

Warning: The production contains scenes with flashing lights and loud music.

Cast:

Multimedia

Photo: Peter Giodani
Photo: Peter Giodani
Photo: Peter Giodani
Photo: Peter Giodani
Photo: Peter Giodani

Dates

Monday
25 november
25
Monday november
CANCEL

SNG Maribor

20:30 | Studio YDT
Eva Mahkovic

TOXIC

Based on the idea and dramatisation by Nataša Matjašec Rošker

Cast:
  • Nataša Matjašec Rošker,
  • Liza Marijina
  • (S)700RSD