Maja Haderlap
The Angel of Oblivion
Crew
DIRECTOR IGOR PISON
TRANSLATOR ŠTEFAN VEVAR
ADAPTATION IGOR PISON
DRAMATURG EVA KRAŠEVEC
STAGE DESIGNER PETRA VEBER
COSTUME DESIGNER BELINDA RADULOVIĆ
COMPOSER LAREN POLIČ ZDRAVIČ
LANGUAGE CONSULTANT TATJANA STANIČ
LIGHTING DESIGNERS PETRA VEBER, IGOR PISON
Cast
SHE BARBARA CERAR
GRANDMOTHER, MOTHER SAŠA PAVČEK
FATHER JANEZ ŠKOF
About the performance
Original title: Engel des Vergessens
PREMIÈRE 14 MARCH 2014
THE PERFORMANCE IS 1 HOUR AND 40 MINUTES LONG AND HAS NO INTERVAL.
"You know, if you're afraid in the woods, you should sing partisan songs."
MajaHaderlap’s novel was extraordinarily well received, because in it she told a story – literary inventively, poetically and subtly – that remained on the edge of the social memory, particularly in Austria. The fate of the minority community of Carinthian Slovenians is told through an autobiographical family chronicle, which spans from World War II until today. All the great powers and ideas that have fatefully influenced the situation of the community and its individuals are a part of
it;among those bearing the greatest weight are the traumas
of World War II and the time after it. Through lyrical personal confession it retells memories: personal, family, collective, told and concealed. The stage adaptation managed to add to the novel a new dimension and to the inner world an outer image through excellent and thoughtful acting interpretations.
"When the performance The Angel of Oblivionin the direction and adaptation of Igor Pison ends in its soft reconciliation, the spectator, under the influence of such a first-class theatre experience, has difficulties to comprehend what ‘hit’ him or her most. Was it the precisely worked-out adaptation of the novel; or was it the seemingly muted and ideologically unbiased directing thatwas the reason the story is played out in all its sensory and politically-chargedemotion?
Or was it due to the gusts of biographic reality that sprout again through fiction as live probable images?
Undoubtedly because of all of the above, but the crown goes to the excellent cast, which carries a contagious spark of total enjoyment in acting."
(Zala Dobovšek, Delo)
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