Time for a special announcement: GLEJ, SHOW OFF
With the TRIGGER showcase going biennial (thus we are preparing for 2026 edition and will announce the dates in August), Glej has decided to fill this gap year by hosting our partners at our very own showdown and offering a top-quality weekend getaway in Ljubljana and Gorica. This Year Gorica is hosting the European capital of Culture GO!2025 under the slogan Borderless.
We are hereby announcing the full programme of the second edition Glej, SHOW OFF: a three-day get together for international partners and friends to talk and think while staging Glej’s latest productions.
Join us in Ljubljana and Gorica from Friday September 12th to Sunday September 14th, and enjoy a selection of Glej’s performances in the company of producers, programmers and friends.
We will be happy to welcome you and offer:
- accommodation with breakfast for up to three nights,
- local transfers*,
- access to all performances.
Registrations are open until August 13th 2025.
*We have a limited budget for supporting travel expenses. If there is a need for this contribution, please tick that option in the application form.
Programme
12. September / 5 pm / 90 min
location: Rafut park, Kostanjeviška cesta 18, Nova Gorica (Goriška)
Neja Tomšič / Untangling a garden III
Untangling a Garden III is a storytelling guided tour through Rafut Park, home to over 1100 trees and one of Slovenia’s earliest exotic gardens. Narrated by a team of artists and accompanied by vocal group Ardeo, the event explores the rich symbolism, myths, and hidden histories rooted in the park's trees.
13. September / 6 pm / 30 min
location: Glej Theatre, Gregorčičeva 3, Ljubljana
Ana Čavić / A thread without end (acts I. and IV.)
A thread without end, is Čavić’s ever evolving and potentially never-ending performance storytelling cycle in which a mythopoetic creation story about two archetypal characters, a woman and an anthropomorphic fox, unravels across four discrete performances to date (Act I-IV), like a thread without an end.
13. September / 8 pm / 60 min
location: Old City Power plant, Slomškova ulica 18, Ljubljana
Počemučka Collective: 150 BPM
150 BPM is a musical-theatrical lecture that uses the theme of skin—our boundary, canvas, and sensory organ—to explore how the body responds to today's overstimulated, hyper-visual world. Through rhythm, sweat, and touch, it shifts focus from answers to embodied experience, inviting us to question where the body ends and community begins. At 150 beats per minute, it becomes a visceral celebration of movement and a search for a shared, porous pulse.
14. September / 6 pm / 50 min
location: Glej Theatre, Gregorčičeva 3, Ljubljana
Natalija Vujošević, Tara Langford, Neja Tomšič: Jadran Resort
Jadran Resort is a walk-in novel set on a shifting Mediterranean coastline, where cruise ships, crypto-millionaires, and imagined characters drift through landscapes shaped by investment, tourism, and vanishing histories. Blending fiction and reality, it explores how fear, memory, and desire flow through transformed territories like contemporary Montenegro. In this evolving seascape, the work reflects on our complicity in global systems and the elusive spaces where personal and collective stories collide.
Contact us
If you need any additional information, write to us at info@glej.si.
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Full programme
MAY 5TH // 20:00
SOUTHWIND / documentary performance / Maxime Berthou, Davis Freeman, Mark Požlep / in English with Slovene subtitles
A cinematographical essay in which Maxime Berthou and Mark Požlep take us along on the two-month journey along the Mississippi river they took in 2019. We witness the people they meet and the brutal nature of everyday life and the consequences of neoliberal extractivism in the towns along the mythical waterway.
MAY 6TH // 17:00 and 20:00
OPIUM CLIPPERS / object theatre and storytelling / Neja Tomšič / in English
A tea ceremony with original hand painted ceramics through which we are guided by the stories of the five Opium Clippers and history of the opium and tea trade in the 2nd half of the 18th and 19th centuries in China and its effects on the contemporary world.
MAY 7TH // 20:00
SOAP OPERA / devised performance / based on F. M. Dostoevsky's The Idiot / Marko Čeh / in Slovene with English subtitles
Enter the chaotic subconscious of Dostoevsky’s characters, through the visually enchanting soap wall technology (made by the interdisciplinary collective Stran22), turning the story into a mesmerising psychological study.
MAY 8TH // 20:00
DRACULA AND THE GIRL AND THE GLOOMY FOREST / an epic solo horror musical / Bence Mezei / in English with English subtitles
An energetic solo performance of an epic size, magnifying the ordinary, the everyday ups and downs, in which it was created. A poetic and at the same time ridiculous narrative about the romantic but often horrifying landscape stretching before the individual at work.