Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre


The Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre was founded on 13 October 1983 in Ljubljana by Eda Čufer, Dragan Živadinov and Miran Mohar, three Slovenian students.
The founders also wrote a manifesto, setting this theatre group a time frame of operation—four years—and described its stages from formation to self-destruction. The name refers to Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum, a Roman Republican politician who passed a decree in 151 BC ordering the destruction of the first Roman theatre.
The Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre constituted—along with Laibach and IRWIN groups—one of the three pillars of the Neue Slowenische Kunst retrograde movement. Within the retrogarde movement, theatre research engaged in the relation between religion, art and state. It focused on rituals and the function of spectacle in theatre and in the function of spectacle the state.
The retrogarde production of events, as it was announced in the manifesto, incorporated an external manifestative part and an internal creative part. The external part consisted of The Appearance, The Resurrection and The Self-Destruction ; the internal part consisted of three stages of transformation: The Illegality, The Exorcism and The Retro-Classic.
In 1987, the Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre performed self-destruction.

External actions of the Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre