Skrivno življenje dreves v uprizoritvah Žige Divjaka

slovenian

2026

volume 14, issue 1

contemporary Slovenian drama   devised theatre   documentary theatre   environmental themes   tree theme

Slovenski gledališki inštitut (SLOGI)
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

Žiga Divjak is a director who has, in recent years, been intensively engaged in productions that put environmental themes front and centre. His productions are examples of socially engaged documentary theatre that portray various aspects of climate change through the simultaneity of theatrical strategies. The productions do not offer solutions but rather inform the spectator about and raise awareness of environmental and humanitarian crises and open the theatre as a space of public reflection in which audiences are faced with the contradictions of the modern world. This paper closely analyses three works, namely, Vročina ( Fever, Mladinsko Theatre, 2021), Krize ( Crises, Mladinsko Theatre, 2022) and Kako je padlo drevo ( How a Tree Fell, SNT Drama Ljubljana, 2022), connected by the shared theme of the tree and the latest scientific findings about the secret life of trees and the cooperation among beings that form part of every ecosystem.

31.08.2026