A performance for 15 high-school students and the daily newspaper printed on the day of performance. The theme of the performance is the “warrior” identity of the student. With gestures of popular everyday activities, the student set themselves into the context of daily political news and events, economy, culture, breaking news, sports... They use the headlines from the day’s newspapers.

"The newspaper printed on the day of the performance demands special performer's dynamics, which counts on the element of unpredictable and reacts quickly. The result are performing personae(s), with their qualities and deficiencies, including juicy dialects and stage fright that sometimes ties the tongues and causes lapses... The effect is spontaneous and mostly witty, but when one observes those warriors, which are inside still "unstable images", how they hurry towards the ramp and scream the titles, and when in the end one sees them each in his "warriors" costume in which he steps into the world, the title gets its melancholic color - because by the logic of this world everything that follows are the ideas and ideals that this young people impersonate; each day one more will be sacrificed. Operation of creative tandem Via Negativa succeeds in proving that theatre principles VN work also outside its own system.« (Primož Jesenko. Delo Ljubljana, marec 2004)


  • Credits
  • Concept and directed by: Bojan Jablanovec
  • Performed by residents of the Tabor dorm Ljubljana (in the year 2004): Metka Drčar, Barbara Divjak, Miha Grgurič, Maja Jurjevič, Jure Klavora, Peter Lahajnar, Urška Ličef, Jaka Matišič, Matej Obreza, Miha Obreza, Anja Pleberšek, Dominik Prelc, Urška Ravnik, Anja Rupnik in Sašo Sotlar
  • Assisted by: Nana Milčinski
  • Students’ mentor: Marta Šuštar
  • Producer: Špela Trošt
  • Produced by: Via Negativa, Dijaški dom Tabor Ljubljana

First performance: 3 March 2004, Slovensko Mladinsko Theatre Ljubljana