Simona Semenič’s first solo theatre piece, I,Victim. premiered in 2007 at the 13th City of Women Festival. The autobiographical text and performance that was both directed and performed by Simona dealt with her close encounters with dark forces of different kinds. She shared her experience with epilepsy and the health system, with genital herpes and the health system and a bunch of other things and the health system. The performance the second time is a sequel to her first solo: where the first solo ends, the second begins. Quite literally. “Let me smoke” is the last line of the performance I, Victim., and also the first line of the second time. Simona recounts her recent years, during which she had to cope with the aggravation of her epilepsy and – what else? – the health system. Simona intends to perform the third and final part of her trilogy on Tuesday, October 12th 2021 in Klub Gromka in the context of the 27th edition of the City of Women Festival. You are kindly invited then, too! – Simona Semenič
Simona Semenič is a dramatist and author of theatre performances. Her texts have won her two national Grum Awards and her dramas have received numerous awards and accolades both in Slovenia and abroad, where her texts are regularly staged. She performed and directed her own productions (I, Victim.; Do Me One More Time; 43 Happy Ends; Kapelj and Semenič Under Construction; Semenič and Bulc For Sale) and the performances of PreGlej group (9 Easy Pieces, This Is Me and What Are You). Her first collaboration with the City of Women goes back to 2005, when she worked as dramaturg of the A.C.T. Metelkova project and directed an adaptation of the performance piece Endless Medication in 2006.
Opening date: 12 October 2014
Running time: 60 minutes without intermission
In Romanian, Hungarian and English
Photo: Nada Zgank
Original title: drugič