On 27th of May 2024, at 8pm the performance "Jackpot" will take place on the stage of Mini teater, with which the internationally acclaimed Croatian playwright, director and screenwriter Ivor Martinić will be visiting us.
The performance "Jackpot" was co-produced by the artistic organisation T25 and KunstTeatar from Zagreb, based on the text and directed by the internationally renowned Croatian theatre artist Ivor Martinić. The cast includes Sanja Milardović, Iva Jerković Oreški, Silvio Vovk and Ksenija Marinković (on the video-projection), and the creative team also includes the videographer Magdalena Ptiček, the sound recordist Sunčica Ana Veldić, assistant to the tone recordist Dominik Čović, light designer Igor Markić - Nikolac, producers Ivor Martinić and Romana Brajša, production assistants Hana Zrnčić Dim and Dina Tudor, photographers Karla Jurić and Ivor Martinić, and designer Verlauf.
The performance "Jackpot" is a generational story about friendship, love, relationships and compromises. Sanja and lovers Goran and Sara are long-time friends who entered their late thirties together. They belong to a generation that is already a little tired of life and exhausted by the daily struggle for a better existence, a generation that plans its future rationally, without many of the illusions of adolescence. But when Goran circles the right numbers on the lotto ticket and he and Sara hit the big jackpot, his relationship with Sanja changes irrevocably. Calculations become unwavering, desires high and expectations disappointed.
As their friendship falls apart, "Jackpot" asks whether we can really rejoice in the success of our friends, no matter how accidental? Do we really believe in the power of friendship? Do we only choose friends who are easier to be unhappy around? Can we even choose our friends? And does true friendship even exist?
"Jackpot" is also a continuation of a work by playwright Ivor Martinić, based on his own initiative, in collaboration with all those involved in the process. Ivor Martinić self-ironically questions his position as a playwright who puts a text originally written for film into the theatre, and reflects on the specificities and differences between film and theatre. While on a contextual level he writes a story about a friendship, on a formal level he tries to detect what constitutes the relationship between the action in time, between the action and the cut, and the mechanism that surrounds this time.
