Production company / Theatre: Četveroruka / Four-handed 

Original title of the performance: Zvuči kao papar 

Title of the performance in English: Sounds Like Pepper 

Country of origin: Croatia

Duration (minutes): 80

Playwright / Author / Director: Marina Petković Liker 

Full cast list: Alma Ferović-Fazlić, Fabijan Komljenović, Filip Lugarić, Silvia Marchig, Urša Raukar, Lovro Rimac, Dijana Vidušin, Agota Vitkay-Kucsera

Full artistic/creative team: Dramaturg: Maja Sviben; Set designer: Ana Paulić; Costume designer: Ana Paulić; Lighting designer: Saša Fistrić; Any additional key collaborators: Choreographer: Silvia Marchig; Any additional key collaborators: Sound design: Branko Puceković and Luka Gamulin; Any additional key collaborators: Vocal coaches / collaborators for the preparation of vocal sections: Alma Ferović-Fazlić and Agota Vitkay-Kucsera; Any additional key collaborators: Makeup artist: Iva Lea Dežmar 

• Short synopsis: The world we live in is filled with sounds, but also with silences that imperceptibly shape our experience of existence. The performance Sounds Like Pepper explores these unspoken moments, the sonic echoes that arise between body and space, between the individual and the collective. It is not a narrative in the classical sense, but a complex vocal landscape in which the voice is not used merely as a means of communication, but as a tool for listening, reflection, and shared being. Through the interplay of sound and silence, the performers explore the physicality of the voice, its ability to reveal what words cannot contain. The voice becomes an extension of inner impulses, a guide through layered emotions and sensations that transcend the individual and enter the collective, into a shared psyche of experience. Sounds Like Pepper explores intuition and premonition, voices that are inaudible yet present, voices that carry the weight of past experiences and anticipate the future. In this process, the performers move through a double game: collectively observing distance and proximity, while simultaneously performing intimate, fragile stories that resonate within the space. In a post-apocalyptic landscape, where the world as it was once known has irreversibly disappeared, the survivors confront the irony of a new reality. Some remain trapped in the ruins of the past, while others attempt to find meaning in meaninglessness, adapting to rules no one has set. In this darkly humorous play of the absurd, extreme emotions collide with the inevitability of new life: fear turns into hysteria, hope into delusion, and indifference into a strange mask of survival. And yet, somewhere between danger, premonition, and realisation, a thought emerges: what if this is exactly how it is meant to be?