Daedalus
storytelling-musical performance

Based on the story Ikar by Aleš Šteger (from: Bogovi se nam smejijo, Beletrina, 2021)

Text and narration by Aleš Šteger
Music by Jure Tori
Directed by Jernej Lorenci

Production: Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana

Premiere: January 12th 2025

A performance for fathers and sons.

A story about the search for inner freedom. A story of liberation from the past and personal traumas. A story about becoming human again, about accepting the most difficult thing in oneself, the death of a loved one.

In the Greek myth, Daedalus, the builder of the labyrinth on Knossos, invents wings with which he and his son Icarus escape from Crete. Because Icarus flies too close to the sun, he dies. What happens to the father who has lost his son? How is the father to free himself from the trauma of his loss? This point is the starting point of the play. It takes place today, in the modern world, on a Mediterranean island on the migrant route from the Mediterranean to Europe.

A performance that touches with the power of the narrative, the power of the music, intimate and resonant.