TRIGGER 2026 - REGISTRATIONS OPEN
Glej Theatre invities estival curators, programmers, performing arts professionals, artists, and connoisseurs of brave art to join TRIGGER, a celebration of Slovenian performing arts co-organized by nine Slovenian performing arts organizations. This marks the 7th edition of TRIGGER, and we are excited to collaborate with Asociacija and EAIPA network for this edition. The festivities will unfold from March 18th to 21st, commencing in Maribor on the 18th, where participants will immerse themselves in the vibrant independent scene of Slovenia's second-largest city. Subsequently, they will transition to Ljubljana to continue the showcase program.
In addition to the TRIGGER showcase, you are invited to participate in thought-provoking panels and discussions. These sessions co-hosted by EAIPA and Asociacija will explore the connections between culture and health and career transitions for artists.
Registrations are open until February 10th
PROGRAMME:
Under control by Luka Piletič is a darkly comic solo about discipline, exhaustion, and the quiet panic of holding everything together.
With To our delight, Olja Grubić explores food, identity, and society through a sugar-coated cycle of building, breaking, and rebuilding. Moving from the intimate to the social and political, the performance asks whether we can imagine a world that is a pleasure for all—not just for some.
IS JOY II by Aljoša Lovrić Krapež is a rare gesture of grounded optimism, inviting performers, objects, and audiences into a shared ripple of joy that builds a collective, participatory counter-passivity in uncertain times.
Now I can get the fuck out of here, now I can go by Primož Čučnik, Nataša Živković, and Tomaž Grom is an award-winning music-performance that gently dissolves the concert format into an intimate, hybrid experience where poetry, voice, sound, and presence resonate as one.
Mothers by the Igralke Collective and Rajna Racz is not a performance about motherhood, but about deciding on motherhood—unfolding as a living museum of voices, experiences, and choices that reflect the layered realities of motherhood today.
Sukeban by Varja Hrvatin is an interactive performance that turns the stage into a game, confronting sexism and digital culture while imagining a world of rebellious heroines and collective play.
Dance in Stone by Leja Jurišić is an object-theatre performance that brings bodies and stone into a shared poetic space, asking whether stone can think, feel, and move, and revealing imagination and agency within seemingly inert matter.
The Art of Living: The Act of Killing by Barbara Kukovec, Katarina Stegnar, and Urška Brodar is a radical return to the countryside, where art becomes a collective feminist act confronting femicide, structural violence, and the decolonisation of women.
Jadran Resort by Natalija Vujošević, Tara Langford, and Neja Tomšič is a novel-in-landscape and communal experience that moves through a touristified Adriatic setting, blending fiction and reality to examine history, desire, and our complicity in global systems.
The full programme will be announced at the end of January.
