The Mrakiad

About the performance

The production is 3 hours and 45 minutes long and has two intervals.

"You were born to protest and to oppose [...] and suddenly you find yourself facing a fact that does not need your defiance and your revolts. You have got used to trembling before something invisible, before power, and suddenly, you have nothing to tremble before anymore. It is as if the meaning of your life disappeared alongside with power. [...] And you, who dislike and cannot understand some false hierarchy, and, in your simplicity, you see things as they are, who have not and do not want to realise that life is built on interests only, you will step aside, and you will die like a dog. Stand aside, you who refuse to understand the law of the majority!" Ivan Mrak, A page torn from the diary of a fifteen-year-old

"Any serious attempt to find something important in the dramatic corpus is commendable, and this production highlights some of Mrak’s characters or establishes them as full dramatic heroes. The guilt-laden uprightness of the Old Roman, the complete amorality of the broker Beštr or the rebellious non-participation in the social economy, such as Ferdi’s actions, are definitely attitudes and personalities that should be remembered and written into the social memory. So we’ve got more than exuberant proof that Mrak’s words can be spoken and played. That is why this performance – it is fitting and just that it is in the central national theatre Drama – really deserves an epic title." Petra Vidali, Večer, 17 March 2023

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