ATS Ljubljana - Nada Zgank

All The Sex I’ve Ever Had

Join our expert panel of local elders and learn about the experiences of a generation. In our youth-obsessed culture, All the Sex I’ve Ever Had re-establishes a community of wise elders to whom we can turn for advice gleaned from their vast wealth of life expertise. Taking the audience on a journey from birth to present day, these elders have a lot to teach us, a lot to share, and that aging can yield a way of being in the world that is open, generous and fearless.

Hands-down one of the best nights of my life.

Brodie Paparella, Broadwayworld.com (2016)

This beautifully simple concept is another masterstroke by Canadian theatre makers Mammalian Diving Reflex […] This is no more kiss and tell; with sensitive handling, these intimate experiences are laced together to reveal a broader social history, exploring the ways in which our older generations adapted to, rebelled against, and provoked the changing tolerances of our evolving societies.

Maxim Boon, The Music (2017)

It’s just joyous. I don’t know what else to say without breaking my pledge. It’s also painful. But beautiful painful. Life in all it’s brutal, tragic, uplifting and wonderful glory.

Kyle Walmsley, ArtsHub (2016)

As a standard-bearer of socially engaged art, it is a masterpiece.

Mao Nakamoto, Note Magazine (2021)

I’ve certainly never had any experience quite like it and can’t imagine I ever will again. I cannot recommend it enough.

McKenzie Fitz, Unpublished Zine (2022)

All the Sex I’ve Ever Had shows the fullness of life and manages to place human existence, which loves and suffers above all in the present, in the proportionality of a lived life. And so it is thanks to the five that life finally seems relative, amazing and comforting in sum. You go – I go – with hope from the evening.

Katharina Nill, Kultur Züri (2022)
The silhouettes of 6 seniors are dimly lit against a blue stage.

Presentation History

2023
December
Theater Neumarkt; Zürich, Switzerland
April
The Ringling; Sarasota, United States of America
February
Mois Multi; Quebec City, Canada
Sydney WorldPride and Darlinghurst Theatre Company; Sydney, Australia
2022
December
Theater Neumarkt; Zürich, Switzerland
October
Seoul Performing Arts Festival; Seoul, South Korea
September
Freedom Festival; Hull, England
March
MCA Chicago; Chicago, United States of America
2021
December
Elephant's Laugh; Gwangmyeoung, South Korea
September
Schauspielhaus Bochum; Bochum, Germany
April
True Colors Festival; Tokyo, Japan
March
Kyoto Experiment; Kyoto, Japan
2020
October
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm; Frankfurt, Germany
2019
December
Vooruit; Ghent, Belgium
July
National Performing Arts Centre; Taipei, Taiwan
April
This Time Tomorrow by Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center; Cincinnati, United States of America
2018
November
Baltic Circle Festival; Helsinki, Finland
October
HOTA (Home of the Arts); Gold Coast, Australia
August
Mladi Levi Festival; Ljubljana, Slovenia
April
Fusebox Festival; Austin, United States of America
2017
September
Melbourne Festival; Melbourne, Australia
July
Colchester Arts Centre; Colchester, England
June
Wiener Festwochen; Vienna, Austria
May
Wiener Festwochen; Vienna, Austria
2016
December
Kampnagel; Hamburg, Germany
January
Sydney Festival; Sydney, Australia
2014
September
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Time-Based Arts Festival; Portland, United States of America
June
Luminato Festival; Toronto, Canada
2013
November
MOTUS, Alfred Ve Dvore Theatre; Prague, Czech Republic
September
FringeArts Festival; Philadelphia, United States of America
May
Behaviour Festival/The Arches; Glasgow, Scotland
2012
May
Singapore Arts Festival; Singapore, Singapore
Auawirleben Festival/Schlachthaus Bern; Bern, Switzerland
April
Pazz International Performing Arts Festival & Oldenbugisches Staatstheater; Oldenburg, Germany
2011
March
Oldenbugisches Staatstheater; Oldenburg, Germany
2010
May
Pazz International Performing Arts Festival & Oldenbugisches Staatstheater; Oldenburg, Germany
February
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery; Toronto, Canada

Original Tour Credits

The Original Touring Production of  All The Sex I’ve Ever Had at Pazz Festival, Oldenburg in 2010 was:
Conceived and Directed by Darren O’Donnell
Produced by Eva Verity
Curated by Thomas Kraus
with Production Assistance by Konstantin Bock, Stephanie Comilang, Eva Verity & Jenna Winter