ALEX

Life ends at thirteen. Adam Dragun devoted more than two years of his life to working on the performance ALEX. It began inconspicuously: in August 2023, he received a message from someone he had never corresponded with before. He was an acquaintance, an employee of a prestigious Slovak theatre institution, who was really struggling – he had lost faith in the meaning of his work and life. He asked Adam to help him create a solo performance that would restore that meaning. For Dragun it was an opportunity he had been waiting for since he was thirteen – a chance to not only create a performance but also his own dream career as a great theatre director. From that moment on, a process began in which the boundaries between art and amateur psychoanalysis began to dangerously blur.

Performers must bare their souls, delving into their childhood dreams and deepest fears. Dragun films, archives, and obsessively analyses the entire process. The result is a production created from recordings, reconstructions, screen recordings, and live performance. ALEX is a work in between a documentary and performance, a record of the creative process and a radical reflection on the meaning of theatre today. The props include DIY offices, children’s rooms, as well as the theatre stage that must be defended against the demands of fascists.