Selection results of the call for actors and actresses for MALE/FEMALE|FEMALE/MALE by Boris Bakal

We received over 150 applications for the selection of three male actors / performers and three female actors / performers for the project MALE / FEMALE | FEMALE / MALE by Boris Bakal / Bacači Sjenki (HR), which will be presented in the forthcoming festival edition, in collaboration with TrentoSpettacoli and Spazio Elementare and with the support of the Caritro Foundation.
Here are the names of the selected actors/actresses:

Finadri Lara
Taglioni Sofia
Cro Susanna

Zacchigna Maurizio
Fucich Michele
Ottoboni Paolo

The creative workshop will take place between the 30th of June and 11th of July 2017 between Vallarsa and Pergine Valsugana (TN), while the final performances will be presented on July 12 and 13, 2017 within the 42nd edition of Pergine Spettacolo Aperto in Pergine Valsugana.

MALE/FEMALE
Conceived as a theatrical and scenic study on (dis)continuity, the project Male-Female/Female-Male aims at reaching a definitive emancipation from the common places related to gender issues. Playing on the alleged, irreducible diversity between men and women (“two species, two different worlds”), Bacači Sjenki [Shadow Casters] decide to disconnect the female from the male, usually considered in close relationship, and to explore them separately. Two twin interactive performances are devised, without a script, but articulated around spontaneous dramaturgical elements. The scenic space, shared together by actors and spectators, allows a multifaceted dialogue to take place, a mutual opening made of conversations, songs, dances, laughter and tears, as well as a series of questions devised in progression. An exploration of our personal ideas and prejudices that aims at transforming our perception.
Founded by director and actor Boris Bakal in 2001, Bacači Sjenki is an award-winning international art platform based in Zagreb, which produces multimedia shows and cultural memory projects, urban performances, installations, workshops and exhibitions. Their numerous interdisciplinary productions are part of the debate about the nature and the contradictions of globalization, addressing the current transition processes, their reflection on the intimate dimension, and the systematic diffusion of amnesia and discontinuity that they generate.