At the center of the story are two friends heading to Babin Kuk to stop a wedding—because what is an invitation to others is an alarm for them. When love delivers its final blow and reason takes a holiday, they get into a car and set off on a hellish journey from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, in the high heat, with the music blasting and emotions that won’t fit even in the trunk. Babin Kuk Is Burning is a playful and completely offbeat musical comedy about two women driven mad by love, heat, and life, who—amid an emotional boiling point—decide that they will start fighting for happiness, even if it means going to the last drop of blood.
Direction and video: Gonzalo Quintana / Performers: Ivana Sinovčić and Lea Jevtić / Dramaturg: Tim Kožar / Costume design: Franciska Glavaš / Text: Belén Amada, Micaela Fariña, Gonzalo Quintana / Adaptation and translation: Zvonimir Dobrović / Executive producer: Petra Vigan / Assistant director: Max Foretić-Kožul / Lighting design: Ivan Sabljak / Producer-mentors: Morana Foretić, Kristina Orešković Juras / Music associate: Lukrecija Aragon / Photographer: Sanjin Kaštelan / Set design collaborator: Maja Kos / Visual design: Bruno Isaković / Production: KNAP Theatre / Co-production: Domino Association
Gonzalo Quintana is an Argentine playwright, director, writer, audiovisual producer, producer and actor. Since the age of thirteen he has been dedicated to creating fiction in film and theatre. As the leader and producer of his own projects, his work is based on connecting different disciplines. His genre films have been presented at some of the most important festivals in the world: Sitges, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, the USA, Korea, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and others. In the field of performing arts he has written and directed his own and collective projects.
With the documentary work La consagración de nadie, created together with Micaela Fariña, the duo internationally presented their work and participated in artistic residencies in Italy (Primavera dei Teatri) and Croatia (Sounded Bodies). His latest work, Infinite Archive #1 UNSTOPPABLE, created in collaboration with Croatian artists, reconstructs real stories from the LGBTQI+ community on stage. It premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and represents the first queer documentary work in the country. The project explores the multilayered nature of the identity of six queer artists through a combination of performance and exhibition.
Quintana also participated in an artistic residency in Naples, where he researched a documentary installation project about the football legend Diego Armando Maradona and his relationship with the city that considers him a deity. He currently lives in Zagreb, where he continues working on his artistic projects All my bodies and Simultaneous fierce in collaboration with Domino.
