BUMM, KRACH, PENG

Monday, July 9
Summer stage, 9:30 p.m.

BUMM, KRACH, PENG 
Zavod Federacija Ljubljana (Slovenia) 
Werk89, Wienna (Austria) 
Cankarjev dom (Slovenia)
Duration: 50 min. | Age: 5+ 

Concept and text: Nana Milčinski, Peter Kus 
Directed by: Peter Kus
Music: Peter Kus 
Dramaturgy: Nana Milčinski 
Choreography: Andreja Podrzavnik Rauch 
Set design: Dan Adlešič 
Costume design: Katarina Müller 
Light design: Borut Bučinel 
Graphic design: Nejc Prah 
Cast: Urška Cvetko, Krištof Hrastnik, Michael Pöllmann

Bumm, Krach, Peng presents a character, an unusual boy, who doesn’t use words to speak. Instead, he communicates with sounds and music. If each thing has its own sound, then by playing them he can describe the world and express himself. But when the boy discovers his new language and presents it to his parents, the doctors, his teacher, and his school mates, he is confronted by repression. They all see his creativity, imagination, and uniqueness as a disturbance that must be corrected. In a world where everything is subjected to rules and social conventions, there is no room for a noise-making child. He has to learn human language and conform to the majority. The boy is growing up, discovering his differences, and looking for ways of how to retain his individuality in a world full of limitations and prohibitions. The actors and musicians ask themselves: what would happen to each one of them if he or she were to become a noise making child? They present the story by playing and animating a multitude of different instruments and sound-makers, created out of everyday objects. They are developing a genre of sound theatre where sound becomes equal to all of the theatre’s other elements.

Peter Kus