Play / Physical theatre / Object theatre / Musical
Directed by Matjaž Pograjc
Produced by Bunker Productions and the New Theatre Institute of Latvia
Opening night: May 25 2006

One of Betontanc's three best performances. 
Rok Vevar, Delo

Dark in contents and black in form, the performance has incredibly emotional (live!) music and admiringly healthy irony towards their own story. 
Dita Eglite, Delfi

... The show has many striking attributes, including the singing of Boris Benko, a Leonard Cohen-Bruce Springsteen-style performer who delivers throughout the show.
StarTribune

Benko's voice is eerie and plaintive in the manner of David Byrne ... (The music) is haunting, melodic and quite beautiful.
Scotty Zacher, Chicago Theater Blog

(Silence) sound a bit like glam-era David Bowie was singing over the soundtracks of Gabriel Yared.
Max Sparber, MinnPost

Show Your Face!, a multimedia performance created by Slovene and Latvian artists from the Betontanc and Umka companies, utilises the techniques of physical and object theatre. The play's protagonist, Little Branko (a masterly animated babygro), is a small, unimportant person – a man without a face – travelling through the 20th century. On his way, Branko meets various people – people who were, like him, unable to change the world because they were either too courageous or not brave enough.

Silence wrote the score in collaboration with Uģis Vītiņš, a prominent Latvian musician. The music, performed live during the show by Hladnik (upright piano), Benko (voice, toy synthesizers, xylophone, and percussion), and Vītiņš (saxophone and percussion), combines various genres: pop, cabaret, musical ...

In 2007, Show Your Face! was awarded for collective artistic achievement at the central Slovene theatre festival, the 42nd Borštnik Meeting. The jury wrote: In Show Your Face!, a play about the contemporary everyman without identity, standpoint and face, Betontanc, Umka.lv and Silence use their diverse and suggestive artistic skills to create a touching and vulnerable tale about life in a world without utopia and hope. The central figure, a kind of postmodern Woyzeck, fleeing a world he is unable to intervene in from his existential position, attracts dramaturgic connotations – as well as the desires of the audience – due to the virtuosic animation, acting, choreography, and music of the aforementioned collectives. The sinergy between the performances and the audience turns the play into genuine theatre magic.

01 Talkshow
02 Hypnotic
03 The Bus
04 The Chase
05 The Party
06 The Priest
07 The Death of Rosa Luxemburg
08 Torture Chamber
09 The Birth
10 Sign!
11 In Your Face
12 Silkskin
13 Ascension