Ivan Cankar
The King of Betajnova
Crew
DIRECTOR EDUARD MILER
DRAMATURG, ADAPTATION AND SONGS ŽANINA MIRČEVSKA
STAGE DESIGNER BRANKO HOJNIK
COSTUME DESIGNER JELENA PROKOVIĆ
COMPOSER BOŠTJAN GOMBAČ
RÉPÉTITEUR JOŽE ŠALEJ
CHOREOGRAPHER IVAN PETERNELJ
LANGUAGE CONSULTANT TATJANA STANIČ
LIGHTING DESIGNER PASCAL MÉRAT
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANTS KATJA MAGISTER IN TEA BAŠIĆ ASSISTANT DRAMATURG (STUDENT) TJAŠA MISLEJ
ASSISTANT LANGUAGE CONSULTANT (STUDENT) KRISTINA MIHELJ MUSICAL NOTATION MARKO BRDNIK
Cast
JOŽEF KANTOR, LOCAL MAGNATE JERNEJ ŠUGMAN
HANA, KANTOR'S WIFE ZVEZDANA MLAKAR
FRANCKA, KANTOR'S DAUGHTER NINA IVANIŠIN
NINA, KANTOR'S RELATIVE TINA VRBNJAK
KRNEC, A FORMER SHOPKEEPER AND LANDLORD MARKO OKORN
MAKS, KRNEC'S SON VLADIMIR VLAŠKALIĆ/MARKO MANDIĆ
THE PARISH PRIEST ALEŠ VALIČ
FRANC BERNOT, LANDOWNER ALJAŽ JOVANOVIĆ
JUDGE VALTER DRAGAN
WOMAN JUDGE BARBARA ŽEFRAN
THE ASSESSOR OF THE JUDGE KRISTIJAN OSTANEK
LUŽARICA MAJA KONČAR
KOPRIVEC NEJC ROPRET
KANTOR'S HOUSEKEEPER MATIJA STIPANIČ
About the performance
PREMIÈRE
6 FEBRUARY 2014 AT THE SNG DRAMA LJUBLJANA,
28 FEBRUARY 2014 AT THE DRAMA SNG MARIBOR
THE PERFORMANCE IS 1 HOUR AND 40 MINUTES LONG AND HAS NO INTERVAL.
"And you will give the crown from your head, the sceptre from your hand!"
The story of ruthless will for political and economic power is, it seems, permanently present in the Slovenian history. This is why Slovenian theatre continues to return to this play by Cankar, and many a performance has shown our changing attitude to power. Eduard Miler and ŽaninaMirčevska have, in recent seasons, prepared several fresh takes of classical texts; the concept of this version of The King of Betajnova thus brings a new, perhaps even slightly unexpected perspective of
ladder-climbing without any morals. Jožef Kantor becomes what he is primarily because everyone, including the victims, complies with the system in which one can climb over all the others.
"No, Cankar wasn’t a prophet. But he was a bloody good clinician … If the artist rose from the grave and saw St Florian’s Valley of today, he’d see that everything is as it’s always been."
(Andraž Gombač, Primorske novice)
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