Yellow Moon

Opening night September 2020, Dance and Theatre Centre SVŠGUGL
Running time approximately 105 minutes. No intermission. 

A discussion with the creative team after the performance.

Director Primož Ekart
Translator Tina Mahkota
Dramaturg and mentor Ana Duša
Set designer Damir Leventič
Costume designer Vasilija Fišer
Composers Silence, Koala Voice
Choreographer Rosana Hribar
Lighting designer Andrej Hajdinjak
Language consultant Maja Cerar
Stage manager and sound designer Aca Ilić
Lighting technician Srečo Brezovar
Stage technician Stanko Božanić

Featured topics: family, identity, relation(ship)s, coming of age, life goals, violence, distress, escapism, trust, truth 

Cast
Rok Kunaver, Jan Bučar, Alenka Tetičkovič, Neža Dvorščak a. g., Ronja Matijevec a. g., Tibor Anželj a. g., Maks Mihajlović a. g. 

Yellow Moon, the Ballad of Leila and Lee is a love story of two teenagers who find each other at the moment when one of them sees his life take a fateful turn. Lee is seventeen; he lives with his mother and her boyfriend, and with a memory of his father who left when Lee was five. He left behind a hat with a patch with a stag on it and a postcard of a castle in the Scottish Highlands. This is where Lee escapes in his moments of greatest need. On the road, Leila unexpectedly joins him – the quiet Leila, a Muslim who doesn’t speak. A girl from a well-off family wants the world to notice her. She wants people to notice her, listen to her and be interested in her. Leila and Lee find each other, but dark clouds of the past that is hard to escape gather above them.
Despite the difficult topics it tackles, the story is a mixture of a tragedy, social comedy and romantic teenage melodrama – some sort of contemporary teenage story of Bonnie and Clyde. The narrative of the text shifts between the dramatic and the epic, from dialogues to internal monologues and from stage directions to prose descriptions of the events. Such a text is an excellent starting point for a performance open to using different and very atypical theatre devices. 
The cast of the production includes young adults and professional actors. The purpose of the LGL Theatre Lab is also training young adults as thespians, as people who will know how and dare to articulate their own thoughts about very different theatre phenomena. With its laboratory, the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre actively involves young adults in theatre and wider cultural and social space and offers adults a possibility of an in-depth insight into the thinking of young generations, thus opening space for dialogue at this intersection.

The production was created as a part of the European project ConnectUp.