Accessibility
Search
Close this search box.

Vladimir Stojsavljević

Love and Sovereignity

Original title: Ljubav i država

Director

Dragan Živadinov

Opening night

24 September 2011
Main Stage

Duration:

175 minutes inc. interval

Creators

Creative team

TRANSLATORS

Dražen Dragojević, Dragan Živadinov, Tatjana Stanič

Drama Igralec: Dražen Dragojević, Dragan Živadinov, Tatjana Stanič | odpri ustvarjalca

DRAMATURG

Darja Dominkuš

Drama Igralec: Darja Dominkuš | odpri ustvarjalca

SET DESIGNERS

Dunja Zupančič, Miha Turšič

Drama Igralec: Dunja Zupančič, Miha Turšič | odpri ustvarjalca

COSTUME DESIGNER

Dunja Zupančič

Drama Igralec: Dunja Zupančič | odpri ustvarjalca

AUTHORS OF DIGITAL CONSTRUCTIONS

Dunja Zupančič, Miha Turšič

Drama Igralec: Dunja Zupančič, Miha Turšič | odpri ustvarjalca

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Milan Podlogar

Drama Igralec: Milan Podlogar | odpri ustvarjalca

LANGUAGE CONSULTANT

Tatjana Stanič

Drama Igralec: Tatjana Stanič | odpri ustvarjalca

MUSIC BY

Dario Seraval, Dragana Jovanović

Drama Igralec: Dario Seraval, Dragana Jovanović | odpri ustvarjalca

CHOREOGRAPHERS

Marko Mlačnik, Mateja Rebolj

Drama Igralec: Marko Mlačnik, Mateja Rebolj | odpri ustvarjalca

CO-DIRECTOR

Anja Bajda

Drama Igralec: Anja Bajda | odpri ustvarjalca

Cast

Lotos Vincenc Šparovec

Will Shakespeare

Matjaž Tribušon

Dick Burbadge

Klemen Slakonja

Iack Ion Rice

Igor SamoborDrama Igralec: Igor Samobor | odpri igralca

William Nicholas Slye

Tom Ban

Alex Cooke

Janez ŠkofDrama Igralec: Janez Škof | odpri igralca

William Kempte

Jurij ZrnecDrama Igralec: Jurij Zrnec | odpri igralca/Aleš Valič

William Bell

Saša PavčekDrama Igralec: Saša Pavček | odpri igralca

Mistress Rice

Barbara CerarDrama Igralec: Barbara Cerar | odpri igralca

Eleanor Bull

Veronika DrolcDrama Igralec: Veronika Drolc | odpri igralca

Mary Flaming

Bojan EmeršičDrama Igralec: Bojan Emeršič | odpri igralca

Harry Wriothesley

Alya

Titania

Andrej Fon, Dario Seraval/Dragan Živadinov

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.

Close