Literary Evening: Urša Majcen at Goga Bookshop
Goga Publishing House invites you to a literary evening with poet, playwright and screenwriter Urša Majcen, author of the collection of plays Exercises with a Fish, recently published by Goga Publishing House. The event will take place on Thursday, 21 May 2026, at 8:00 p.m. at the Goga Bookshop and Café in Novo mesto.
Exercises with a Fish is a selection of four dramatic works written between 2020 and 2024. The play The Drama Does Not Exist is a parodic theatrical documentary that, with sharpness and humour, addresses the real-life decay of the Ljubljana Drama Theatre building and its internal politics. Exercise with a Fish, which essentially remains an exercise in style, explores the position of a young woman in art and in the world through shifts between dramatic genres and humour. Children of Light addresses apathy as a consequence of the sense of entrapment experienced by younger generations, who in a declining world are neither able nor willing to truly act. In Orpheus and Eurydice, the author most fully connects with the poetic tradition and delves into the exploration of the word itself, its power and its relationship to the most intimate.
The literary evening will be moderated by Liu Zakrajšek.
The event is part of the bookshop’s cultural programme, co-financed by the Slovenian Book Agency.
The event will be held in Slovenian.
