Vedrana Klepica: Things that burn easily

This performance by author Vedrana Klepica is equally interested in ecological reality in which, as a society, we happen to exist, that is, the reality of global warming, fires, and other catastrophes that are more and more present in our lives, and the most rudimentary mechanism of human survival in the face of any crisis. The play attempts to understand mechanisms of oppression and fear that birth violence and alienation in such situations and methods of organization in a dysfunctional and selfish society, which appear as a result of individuals previously affected by such experiences.

"Things That Burn Easily" narrates a story of a piece of modest land, far from some larger civilisation or city, where people who were affected by a big natural (and/or perhaps human-caused) catastrophe live in relatively modest conditions. Some of them believe that they have been wronged by irreparable and epic injustice and that a system that will take responsibility and compensate for some of the consequences of the injustice should exist. If nothing else, the community members should share a space of comfort. Others, again, do not believe such things. Their skepticism has modeled for them a very strict picture of the world in which every other individual is a potential threat, and the only reliable certainty comes from social and societal isolation, retreat from complex social structures, and autonomous construction of their own systems of survival and belief. Two such principles, one being alienated and the other inter-connected, thoroughly undo each other. When a big new threat appears on the horizon, the tragedy of it will escalate into an unbearable misunderstanding of these two principles.

Things that burn easily, 2024.81 photos