1975

Does our life experience disappear after death, or, on the contrary, continues to exist in our descendants?

The play «1975» by Slovenian director Tomi Janežić is a documentary fiction of several generations of a family from Ivano-Frankivsk, based on real stories from the lives of the actors and the director. The events of 1975 are the door to a labyrinth in which the fates of members of one family intertwine throughout the 20th century, unexpectedly connecting the regions of Ukrainian Ivano-Frankivsk, Slovenian Nova Gorica and Italian Gorizia, which were once part of Austria-Hungary. Since the First World War and decades later, the life paths of representatives of this family continued to lead to another end of the former empire.

Each of us is a carrier of fragments of the history of our ancestors. We are threads of an endless family web, woven from ups and downs, great achievements and vile crimes, extremely banal and incomprehensibly unique.

And this play - a fictional and at the same time undeniably true myth, passed down from generation to generation of a large family, so similar to the lineage of each of us.

«1975» is part of the theatrical dodecalogy, a cycle of twelve performances spanning the period from 1972 to 1983, as part of the Destin(y)ation project, which involves theatres from several countries and was created specifically for the “European Capital of Culture GO25!” programme, as this title will be awarded to Toma Janežić’s hometown, Nova Gorica/Gorizia (Slovenia/Italy) in 2025.

The place where we spent our childhood and its connection with other places on our journey form the basis of this dodecalogy, which addresses, among other things, the themes of intergenerationality, borders, socio-political and ideological change and war.