1973

Transgenerational documentary fiction 1973: the year in which Yugoslavia becomes the FIBA EuroBasket champion, Fellini makes Amarcord, Pink Floyd release The Dark Side of the Moon, and Tomaž Pengov his unforgettable album, recorded in his lavatory. Josipa Lisac sings Dnevnik jedne ljubavi, the American Psychiatric Association declassifies homosexuality as a mental disorder in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American intervention in the Vietnam war ends, the first call on a mobile phone is made in New York and a day later, the World Trade Center opens. On 11 September Pinochet, supported by the United States, topples the democratically elected Chilean government and takes power. One of the longest total solar eclipses of the 2nd millennium is visible over equatorial Africa. The cable car to Sveta Gora stops operating, the Mushroom Pickers’ Club in Nova Gorica is established and the Athletic Club Nova Gorica celebrates its first decade. Nova Gorica hosts the sports meet of the wood industry workers from the entire Socialist Republic of Slovenia. On 11 September 1973, the family that the production talks about experienced events that would change their entire future. The year 1973 is a portal into one family’s intergenerational stories that span across the 20th century and lead up to today. The project 1973 is a trans-generational documentary fiction, based on the creators’ personal stories. It is a story from the 1970s that grows out from thetower blocks of the era, a story connected to many local and global events that link Nova Gorica to different world cities. The production is a part of the theatre dodecology 1972–1983 (a part of the Destin(y)ation/A touch of Destiny project). It is a year-long theatre omnibus of twelve theatre projects directed by Tomi Janežič that are created in Nova Gorica, Ljubljana, Timişoara, Ivano-Frankivsk, Novi Sad and under the auspices of the Krušče Creative centre. The dodecology of drama miniatures was w