Approaching the real: The directorial approach of Jernej Lorenci in staging the Crazy Locomotive by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and The Wedding by Rudi Šeligo

“Approaching the Real” utilises the author’s dramaturgical involvement in both to reflect on the creative process behind Jernej Lorenci’s productions of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s The Crazy Locomotive and Rudi Šeligo’s The Wedding at SNG Drama Ljubljana, both characteristic of the director’s work. By revealing methods and concepts behind the staging of the plays, we can gain an insight into the director’s thinking, that is, the “reflective processing” of the creative team. These are productions in which we can talk about approaching the authentic or, better said, the so-called “real”, and which arose as collective creations of a homogenised authorial and acting team.