ANA MONRO THEATRE
Performances by the Ana Monro Theatre, the most influential alternative theatre of the eighties and beginning of nineties in Slovenia.
Marko Kovačič was a founding member of the Ana Monro Theatre (1981-1991), co-author of performances, as well as actor, performer, graphic and stage designer. The list of indoor and street performances include 1492 or Has a Pre-War Stripper Still Anything to Show Today, Red Beam, Inspector Swake, Cirkus Kansky and San Remo and the works in paper (posters, leaflets, tickets, booklets, graffiti) were presented at the exhibition King Mathias and the Successors of Winetou (Information & Dokumentary Centre for Design, Ljubljana, 1990).


Thirst, U-matic, Marko A. Kovačič & Gledališče Ane Monro, Ljubljana, 1993, 14'
The video was made in the genuine ambience of a half-destroyed apartment of 'Miss Salender', and it is a kind of visual document of the Ana Monro Theatre (AMT) style. The work is composed of various gags by AMT 's eccentric actors whose bizarre figures are set against the dull, but also very 'cruel', ruined walls. The same 'cruelty' radiates from the normal city environment, which in the beginning of the video forms the background for a female 'video creature'. There are no artificial sceneries in this video, but the human figures featuring.