Co-production with Zavod Delak
Opening night:
24th September 2011
Translation Dražen Dragojević
Tatjana Stanič
Dragan Živadinov
Director Dragan Živadinov
Dramaturg Darja Dominkuš
Set design Dunja Zupančič
Miha Turšič
Costume designer Dunja Zupančič
Miha Turšič
Dunja Zupančič
Light designer Milan Podlogar
Language consultant Tatjana Stanič
Music Dario Seraval
Dragana Jovanović
Choreographers Marko Mlačnik
Mateja Rebolj
Anja Bajda
Cast:
Lotos Vincenc Šparovec k.g. - Will Shakespeare, poet
Matjaž Tribušon - Dick Burbadge, actor and owner of the theatre
Klemen Slakonja - Iack Ion Rice, boy who plays women's parts
Igor Samobor - William Nicholas Slye, actor of Puritan believes
Tom Ban k.g. - Alex Cooke, coward
Janez Škof - William Kempte, dancer
Jurij Zrnec/ Aleš Valič k.g. - William Bell, seaman, who betrayed the sea and became an actor
Saša Pavček - Mistress Rice, clairvoyant dressmaker and Iack's mother
Barbara Cerar - Eleanor Bull, soft hearted ale-house keeper
Veronika Drolc - Mary Flaming, supreme magistrate's wife
Bojan Emeršič - Harry Wriothesley, Earl of Sauthampton, Hal, horse thief
Alya k.g. - Titania
Andrej Fon k.g., Dario Seraval k.g. - Musicians
Vladimir Stojsavljević (1950), a renowned Croatian playwright and director, wrote Three Elizabethan Tragedies at the beginning of the 1980s. The play's main protagonists are the three great dramatists Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
The central part of the trilogy Love and Sovereignty features Richard Burbage's actors group's involvement in the Earl of Essex’s rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I. Inspired by the real event, Stojsavljević focuses on the dangerous proximity of politics and art and the abuse of theatre for political goals.
After the coup d'état in which the Puritans play a double role fails, it turns out that the theatre is much more vulnerable and under threat than the state. The state has many means to maintain its mechanisms, even though its real image will be preserved in the future only through great artistic works which will outlive their times. In the play William Shakespeare transforms from a horse keeper and a promising playwright into the Queen's most important contemporary. After all, it was the Queen and the poet who most intensively marked Elizabethan England.
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Love and Sovereignty