SCREENAGERS Vol. 2 - An interactive DIY musical for the digital age

SCREENAGERS Vol. 2 is an interactive DIY musical for the digital age, combining concert, lecture, performance, and personal narrative. Barbara Matijević takes the audience on a journey through online experiences, exploring what happens to our imaginations, emotions, and relationships when the digital world becomes our living environment. The mobile phone is an integral part of the show: the audience uses it to actively participate, contribute to the creation of content on the big screen, and join in a collective digital game.

SCREENAGERS Vol. 2 An interactive DIY musical for the digital age October 19 at 7:00 PM SNG Nova Gorica, main stage

CELL PHONE USE DURING THE SHOW IS MANDATORY! SCREENAGERS Vol. 2 sits at the intersection of concert, lecture, performance, and personal storytelling—a sort of sung TED Talk, a DIY musical for the digital age.

Barbara Matijević takes the audience on a lyrical, playful, and ironic journey through the world of online experiences and the sensations generated by a life in constant contact with digital content.

What happens to our imaginations, our emotions, and our relationships when the Internet is no longer a place we occasionally visit, but the environment we live in?

The audience also enters the show with their cell phones, which this time are not a distraction, but a theatrical tool.

Through their phones, viewers actively participate, contribute to the creation of content that appears on the big screen and even find themselves together inside a video game.

Drawing on online research, Google queries, digital images, and audience responses, Barbara Matijević creates songs about pain, joy, longing, and those indefinite feelings that are sometimes hard even to name.

On stage, the digital world takes shape through QR codes, chatbots, green screens, music, videos, and a collaborative play with the audience. SCREENAGERS Vol. 2 neither condemns nor celebrates the internet.

With a touch of humor and no moralizing, he asks the question of what happens to our psyche and collective imagination in a world traversed by an endless stream of online content—and why, despite it all, we keep scrolling.

The play has been performed at theaters and festivals in Croatia, Serbia, Portugal, Germany, France, Romania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, and Montenegro. The play is in English. Recommended age: 14+.

Duration: approximately 75 minutes

Entrance: €5 / free for organised school groups

Concept, direction and text: Giuseppe Chico and Barbara Matijević On stage: Barbara Matijević Music: Nenad Kovačić

Technical direction and sound: Viktor Krasnić

Lighting design: Marino Frankola Lighting / technician: Saša Fistrić

Animation: Martina Livović and Giuseppe Chico Video: Giuseppe Chico

Digital application design and development: Pierre-Erick Lefebvre

Programming: Dubravka Špoljarić Executive production, distribution and PR: Silvija Stipanov

Administration: Lucas Pascaud

Production: OMNIBUS artistic organization • Premier Stratagème Co-production: Théâtre de Choisy-le-Roi, scène conventionnée art et création pour la diversité linguistique

Partner: Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb

• Ganz New Culture of Change

• Zagreb Dance Center

• Centar KNAP – Teatar KNAP With the support of: DRAC Île-de-France

• Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia

• City of Zagreb • European mobility programme i-Portunus Houses The event is part of the Creative City Gotropolis, organised by KD Teater na konfini in collaboration with SNG Nova Gorica.