Play
Directed by Matjaž Berger
Produced by Anton Podbevšek Teater, Božidar Jakac Art Museum, and Cankarjev dom
Opening night: May 31 2022
More info: antonpodbevsekteater.si

I told the interrogator that I had decided to die within these walls… He was starting to believe me. I told him I felt more free in prison than standing in the middle of New York.
— Vitomil Zupan

In 2022, director Matjaž Berger staged Levitan, Vitomil Zupan's remarkable account of his incarceration in post-war Yugoslavia.

Zupan was imprisoned in 1948, after drunkenly phoning one of the heads of the Yugoslav government and telling him that he'd heard on a Swiss radio station that Tito had abdicated and left the country. Zupan isn’t one to wallow in self-pity. He regards the experience as 'the school of prison'. With matchless wit, he records the events that transpire in prison... and finds erotic pleasure in writing. During his 6-year internment, Zupan wrote 25 poetry collections — about 60,000 verses —, which were sneaked out of prison with incredible ingenuity.

The play marks the fourth collaboration between Matjaž Berger and Silence. The duet wrote and recorded twelve instrumental tracks for the play.