Glej,
The Conference of the Birds

Based on Jean-Claude Carrière / Nina Rajić Kranjac

»One day, birds will gather.«

Awards

At the Sarajevo MESS festival, the performance won the "Jurislav Korenić" award for best young director and the "Rejhan Demirdžić" for best actor for the collective acting of the whole cast.

Premiere

28. November 2015 /Glej

Gallery

About the show

The conference of the birds is the final production of Glej’s 2015 resident Nina Rajić Kranjac as well as her MA work within the frame of the Theatre and Radio Directing program at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, University of Ljubljana. In 1979 the text of the poet, hagiographer and theoretical sufist Farid ud Din Attar was transformed into a play by Jean-Claude Carrière and Peter Brooks, with which the story of the Simorgh, the sufist teacher, and the travel of the birds reached the masses.

The performance directed by Nina Rajić Kranjac with six actors and actresses is intended for a public of 40, who together with the actors set off on a journey in which they discover the text through the settings that the performance and the ambience stir in them, as well as a journey through oneself. The performance is comprised of three parts (conference, desert, seven valleys), and the directors personal touch brings a breath of fresh air to the play.

Credits

Directed by: Nina Rajić Kranjac
Performers: Benjamin Krnetić, Petja Labović, Blaž Dolenc, Nejc Cijan Garlatti, Sara Dirnbek, Nataša Keser
Translation: Danica Geršak
Costume design: Ljubica Čehovin – Suna
Set design: Aleksander Vujović
Sponsor and set design advisor: Farzad Koushki
Music selection: Lea Čehovin
Light design: Martin Lovšin

Mentors
Directing: associate professor Tomislav Janežič, MA
Acting: assistant professor Matjaž Tribušon
Dramaturgy: assistant professor Blaž Lukan, PhD
Costume design: full professor Janja Korun
Set design: associate professor Jasna Vastl, MA

Photographs: Sunčan Stone
Executive producer: Barbara Poček
Production: Gledališče Glej
Co-production: Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, University of Ljubljana

Special thanks: Slavica Janošević, Gašper Tesner (both SMG), Iztok Vardnjal, Lane Sokolovski, Marjana Johnson (all SNG Drama Ljubljana), Jože Logar, Angelina Karimović (both MGL), Marjanca Rački, Sanja Nešković Peršin (both SNG Opera and ballet Ljubljana), Andrej Vrhovnik, Gallery Farzad.

Glej, The Conference of the Birds