Opening night:
18th April 2009
Translator Milan Jesih
Director Tomi Janežič
Set and light designer Tomi Janežič
Costume designer Leo Kulaš
Composer Tomaž Grom
Video Gregor Božič
Assistant set designer Samo
Language consultant Barbara Korun
Choreographer Tanja Skok
Cast:
Janez Škof - Molière, prominent playwright and actor
Nataša Barbara Gračner - Madeleine Béjart
Maša Derganc - Armande Béjart de Molière
Alja Kapun k.g. - Mariette Rival, A woman in disguise
Ivo Ban - La Grange, Marquis de Charron, archbishop of Paris
Saša Tabaković - Zacharie Moirron
Rok Vihar - Du Croisy, actor, Honest cobbler, king's jester, Brother Faithful
Bojan Emeršič - Bouton, Molière's henchman, King Louis XIV
Matija Rozman - Marquis d’Orsigny, swordsman
Jurij Zrnec - Marquis de Lessac, charlatan on harpsichord, Father Bartholomew, vagrant prophet, Prompter / Actor, Brother Mighty
Russian playwright Mihail Bulgakov’s 1929 work A Cabal of Hypocrites explores an artist’s struggles with governmental control and censorship through the semi-biographical story of the French comedist Molière. Molière has just produced the play Tartuffe, much to displeasure of Church officials, who conspire to discredit the author for what they deem as heretical thought. Bulgakov's play itself was seen by the Stalin-led Soviet government as a dangerous criticism, and was similarly censored, banned after only seven performances.