Tomi Janežič is a Slovenian theatre director, pedagogue and researcher known for his innovative approach to theatre-making, combining traditional and contemporary acting techniques. His work is characterised by an exploration of acting, psychodramatic methods and the relationship between performers and audiences, with theatre understood as a living process and a space for intense communication. Since his first professional production, Equus, in 1996, he has directed a series of acclaimed productions, including The Seagull, King Lear and Seven Questions about Happiness, for which he received the Prešeren Fund Award. His work has been presented at major international festivals, including Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Bitef and Wiener Festwochen. As a pedagogue and professor at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT), he passes on his artistic and research-based methodology to new generations of theatre makers.
A collaboration between Mala Kline, a distinctive voice of the younger generation of European dance makers, and Tomi Janežič, a Slovenian theatre director renowned for his interpretations of the methods of Stanislavski and Grotowski, Romeo and Public explores theatre and its essential relationship between performer and spectator. Created as a site-specific project for a limited audience, the work offers an individual journey through a labyrinth of non-interactive and interactive scenes. Romeo and Public is a performance about theatre itself: about its beginnings and endings, about the performer and the spectator, and about their encounter. It explores both the possibility and the impossibility of this meeting—the very space in which theatre comes into being.