Miha Nemec, Nejc Valenti
The Blue Monkey Hotel
Crew
DIRECTOR MIHA NEMEC
DRAMATURG NEJC VALENTI
COSTUME DESIGNER BJANKA ADŽIĆ URSULOV
STAGE DESIGNER PETRA VEBER
COMPOSER TEO COLLORI
LANGUAGE CONSULTANT ARKO
CHOREOGRAPHER LEJA JURIŠIĆ
LIGHTING DESIGNER PETRA VEBER
RÉPÉTITEUR ALEKSANDRA ČERMELJ
RING DESIGNER MARTINA LONČAR
Cast
IGNACIJ BORŠTNIK GREGOR BAKOVIĆ
ZOFIJA BORŠTNIK MAJA SEVER
Mrs.Češarek VERONIKA DROLC
FRAN GOVEKAR ALOJZ SVETE
ETBIN KRISTAN ROK VIHAR
CARA NEGRI MIRANDA TRNJANIN
IVAN ŠTEFE BORIS MIHALJ
IVAN TAVČAR ZVONE HRIBAR
About the performance
PREMIÈRE
19 SEPTEMBER 2014 AT PTUJ CITY THEATRE,
10 OCTOBER 2014 AT SNG DRAMA LJUBLJANA (SMALL STAGE)
THE PERFORMANCE IS 2 HOURS AND 15 MINUTES LONG AND HAS ONE INTERVAL.
"I said Cankar should be in charge of the Drama Theatre!"
The creative pair Miha Nemec and Nejc Valenti has proven that Slovenian cultural history is theatrically interesting material in two previous performances that we have also seen at the Week of Slovenian Drama – Life®anti and The Brigands, the latter also won the Šeligo Award. They don’t put history on the stage for
academic and historic reasons, but because the dilemmas and dramas of the past reflect our own. So it seems that Slovenians replay many stories from the past, in more or less tragicomical variations.
The Blue Monkey Hotel looks into the time of the prolonged and painful birth of the Slovenian professional theatre. In the centre of this growth was certainly Ignacij Borštnik, who with his theatre work strove to make Slovenian theatre step on its toes and peek over the fence of its home garden. But he was so alone in his endeavour that he packed his bags and went across the border and found such a cultural space in
Zagreb, where they gave him a completely different reception. But when the home-grown Thalia started gasping for air, they sent for him, to breathe a new life into her. The theatre hero bravely took the challenge and waded into the same mud he’d once managed to leave behind. In the stage version we will thus once more meet the upright men from the heroic times of the nation’s awakening, but as one can expect from the authors of Life®anti, they won’t be quite as we know them from textbooks.
"Perhaps today, as Nemec and Valenti say, the only attitude to (our) history in possible under acoat of irony and sarcasm, or else we’d find ourselves on the verge of pathos and teariness?"
(Ivo Svetina, Pogledi)
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