Nataša Matjašec Rošker: THE FOREST ENDS HERE

The Maribor Drama actress Nataša Matjašec Rošker, together with her colleagues, actors Branko Jordan and Davor Herga, have created a poetic, subtle project THE FOREST ENDS HERE in which historic events intermeddle with imaginative stories form life. The performance was awarded First prize at the Golden Lion Festival in Umag and has enthused audience. It's an experimental play which combines physical and drama theatre.

THE FOREST ENDS HERE portrays distortion of family relationships; idealistic dreams of love take realistic shape, while erotic daydreaming turns into a nightmare. It's a multilayered fragmented story based on the motives of the German playwright Falko Richter. With a specific immediacy, the three actors bring before the audience an intimate perception of theatre and life spaces caught up in visual-performing-music-plastic-literary and language-speech score, as well as explore fundamental categories of the contemporary theatre.

"The characters in the play are so damn alone, so cramped and hopeless that the enchanted forest would shrink for them to get to the other side. It's irrelevant whether I stay or go, kiss him or not, it's all the same. I don't know where I am and what to start here; the world has fallen apart, but I know that I have to go to the bank machine; I simply need to get out of here, elsewhere, among other ruins."
Petra Vidali: RAZDEJANI, Večer