The play “Everything is money” (“$v€ j€ u novcu”)

As part of the “Sve-jedno 20” program celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Shadow Casters, we present the performance lecture and enrichment workshop “Money Talks”: in Zabok on May 15 at 8 PM, and in Pula on May 25 at 8 PM at the Social Center Rojc.

“The man without money is a picture of death,” says an ancient Latin proverb, and based on this idea, in 1994, the sect known as the Followers of Banks was founded in Zagreb, which during the 1990s visited many Croatian banks to express their faith. Two thousand and something years after that proverb and two and a half decades after the founding of the aforementioned sect, we haven’t moved far from these basic ideas about money. It is still our dearest and scariest thing. People in culture, especially ‘theatricals,’ are victims of inadequate education in this area. That is why a theater performance-lecture-workshop “Everything is money”  has been made for all of them.

This is an educational and entertaining theater “lecture” and “workshop” on enrichment that Shadow Casters produced in a coproduction with the Italian art organization Mamarogi from Trieste and in cooperation with the Permanent Slovenian Theatre in Trieste. The premiere was at the 2018 Lunatico Festival in Trieste, and it was later performed several times in Udine, Codroip, and Trieste as well as theaters and festivals in Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Zadar, Podgorica (Montenegro), Skopje, and Bitola (Macedonia). In 2021 it will be played in Pula and Zabok, Split, Kutina, and Požega.

The play “Everything is money” deals with the relationships of social and material values ​​on the one hand and money as a means of communication and exchange on the other, all from the perspective of personal narratives of actors, real financial flows of money, the ongoing financial crisis of this time, and the ambivalent role of money in the overall social exchange. The bank-financial “revolution” in the world market gave the concept to the project, which in real-time monitors parallel financial operations, investments, and their consequences on the environment, on the lives of individuals, on states, state systems and their segments, on the economy, and the economy. The field of research of the project is currently countries like Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, and others. During the project research, testimonies are continuously collected about personal experiences with money, about money from investments, acquisitions, enrichments, inheritances, impoverishments, bad financial luck to renunciation of material and financial or general bašmebrigizm. The cities of Trieste, Zagreb, Kopar, and Bitola are scenes of this research (collection of testimonies), conversations with experts (bankers, lawyers, philosophers, programmers, cryptologists, hackers, educators), work with children and young people in schools, special exhibitions, participant-theater performances, and the scene of a documentary film in the making.

Thanks to the support of the Gokul association from Zabok and the Union of associations Rojca from Pula, a theater performance / lecture / participatory expert workshop “Everything is money” will take place:

• On Saturday, May 15 at 8 p.m. in the Green Hall on Trg Dragutina Domjanića 6 in Zabok. Entrance to the show is free.
• On Tuesday, May 25 at 8 p.m. in the courtyard of the Daily Stay DC Rojca at ul. Ljudevita Gaja 3 in Pula. Entrance to the show is free.

The number of visitors in Pula is limited to 50, and for arrival, prior registration is required via the email address info.surojc@gmail.com. The event will be broadcast live on the Facebook page and on Radio Rojc.

On stage will be Boris Bakal, while other performers, for security reasons, will attend online.

The play is in Italian, Slovenian, Croatian, and English.

More about the performance:

Gokul-Zabok-Green Hall

Rojc-Pula-Courtyard of the Daily Stay

Described as the most complete artistic experience and the best play in Pula in 2021 – Glas Istre

Director and artistic director of the project: Boris Bakal – intermedia artist, writer, director, and performer (HR) Co-authors, dramaturges, and performers: Adriano Girardi – actor and performer (IT), Manuel Buttus – actor and performer (IT), Daša Grgić – choreographer and dancer (IT/SLO), Elena Husu – actress and director (IT/SLO)

Support for 2021 guest performances: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb – Office for Culture

Project support: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb – Office for Culture, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region

Support for Shadow Casters: National Foundation for Civil Society Development, Kultura nova Foundation, Creative Europe: MEDIA Subprogram