Dedal (Daedalus)

Based on the novella Ikar by Aleš Šteger
(from: Bogovi se nam smejijo, Beletrina, 2021)
Text and storytelling: Aleš Šteger
Original music: Jure Tori
Directed by: Jernej Lorenci

A show for fathers and sons.

A story about the search for inner freedom.
A story of freeing oneself from the past and personal trauma.
A story about becoming human again, about embracing the hardest thing, 
the death of a loved one.

In Greek mythology, Daedalus, the builder of the labyrinth at Knossos, fashioned the wings with which he and his son Icarus escaped from Crete. Icarus flew too close to the sun and plummeted to his death.

What happens to the father who’s lost a son? How is the father to extricate himself from the trauma of his loss? This is the starting point of the show.

The story takes place today, in our modern world, on a Mediterranean island on the migrant route leading from the Mediterranean to Europe.

Intimate and overwhelming, the show captivates with its powerful narrative and poignant music.

For the past twenty-five years theatre director Jernej Lorenci has enjoyed a successful career directing in Slovenian and international theatres. He has won many important national and international awards for his directing. In 2006, he was appointed as an assistant professor of radio and theatre directing at AGRFT.

Author of over sixty books translated into more than twenty languages and winner of numerous international awards, Aleš Šteger is one of the most internationally recognised Slovenian writers.

Jure Tori is an accordionist and composer. With his idiosyncratic style of music-making, Tori virtually uses sound to draw stories that are open to visualisation. He has formed several groups, including Tori Tango, Tori Trio, Orlek, Flora & Paris and Satori.
Šteger and Tori have been performing together for a number of years, interpreting Šteger's poetry. Two years ago, their performance My War Accordion was produced by Cankarjev dom.