Director
50th Maribor Theatre Festival
Original title of the novel Das Schloß
Original title of the adaptation Dvorac
First production
Director
14 February 2015
Main Stage
Duration:
Innkeeper
Branko Jordan
Schwarzer, an under-castellan's son
Teacher
Girl at Lasemann’s
Lasemann, a tanner
Katja Levstik
Mrs Lasemann
Coachman
Branko Jordan
Galater
Nik Škrlec
Artur
Rok Kravanja
Jeremias
Branko Jordan
Voice from the Receiver
Pepi, a chambermaid/barmaid
Pepi’s Friend
Barnabas, a messenger
Amalia, Barnabas’ sister
Olga, Barnabas’ sister
Katja Levstik
Barnabas’ Mother
Barnabas’ Father
Innkeeper 2
Frieda
Landlady
Branko Jordan
Village Council Chairman
Katja Levstik
Mizzi, the chairman’s secretary
Branko Jordan
Momus, Klamm’s village secretary
Miss Gisa, the school mistress
Hans Brunswick, a student
Bürgel, Friedrich’s secretary
Branko Jordan
Erlanger, Klamm’s first secretary
Franz Kafka! It is the writer’s name itself that triggers a wealth of associations matched by few authors of world literature. Furthermore, his name has become synonymous for a diversity of emotional states and conditions of modern humankind. His books are no easy reads and may require some effort to fully appreciate them. Although published a while ago, they remain perennially topical and part and parcel of our everyday culture and constantly elicit new interpretations. The Castle (written in 1922 and published in 1926) occupies a special position in Kafka’s relatively small body of work. The unfinished novel which offers a multiplicity of meaning is permeated by an ingenuous dark atmosphere and tells a story of a land surveyor who comes to a snowed in village at the foot of a castle. Ever since its publication The Castle has been a source of identification for different historical situations, political and metaphysical contexts. This goes to show what an impossible (if not entirely unreasonable) task it is to comprehend it in its totality. Every attempt to render it in a different medium is doomed to be inadequate. What remains therefore is to engage with it in a partial, personal, and almost selfish enquiry, sustained by Kafka’s metaphors, which will allow for a reflection of our present moment. The hazardous journey of authorial interpretation has been undertaken by the director Janusz Kica and Goran Ferčec, the author of the stage adaptation. As a follow-up to Kica’s staging of America (1995) and The Trial (2001) The Castle imparts the Slovenian audience one of the paths to reach the writer that is grasped by everyone, but by no one exhaustively.
Janusz Kica – Prešeren Fund Award for Directing
Polona Juh – Borštnik Award for Acting
Numen + Ivana Jonke – Borštnik Award for Set Design
50th Maribor Theatre Festival
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