Director
Vesna Hauschild
Inventory
A bitter comedy on everything we are prepared to suffer in order to obtain or retain a job
First production
Opening night
13 November 2015
Small Stage
Duration:
90 minutes
Vesna Hauschild belongs to the youngest generation of Slovenian playwrights and in her play Inventory, she develops themes that are especially keenly felt by her peers. The play portrays a world where the screwed-up economy and unwise political decisions have led to a lack of employment for well-educated, talented, and diligent young people and closed the door to young people in general. The author is interested in what happens with a person in corporations in a situation of insecure employment and almost enslaving conditions, either at the lowest level of the hierarchy in search of a job, or one ranking slightly higher but still merely a link in a much longer chain, whose top-dog always remains invisible and is considered to have almighty, almost god-like power.
Inventory is a series of short, dynamic scenes, written in a lively modern language. Although the problems are serious, the play preserves a light basic tone, related to the television series genre. The author received the Young Playwright Award for this work at the 2013 Week of Slovenian Drama in Kranj.