Tibor Hrs Pandur
Five Kings: The Psychopathology of a Monarchy
Celje City Theatre
Schedule
| 10.04.2025 | at 18:00 | Prešeren Theatre Kranj, hall |
Crew
Based on William Shakespeare's histories, and inspired by Olivier Kemeid's play Five Kings: l'histoire de notre chute, and the analyses of Ekkehart Krippendorff, Marilyn French and Gašper Jakovac.
Translators: Primož Vitez (from French), Tibor Hrs Pandur (from English)
Director: Livija Pandur
Dramaturg: Tibor Hrs Pandur
Set designer: Marko Japelj
Costume designer: Leo Kulaš
Composers Silence: (Boris Benko, Primož Hladnik)
Stage movement consultant: Sanja Nešković Peršin
Music director: Živa Ploj Peršuh
Language consultant: Živa Čebulj
Video designer: Lina Rica
Lighting designer: Vesna Kolarec
Assistant to costume designer: Lara Kulaš
Cast
Lovro Zafred
Lucija Harum
Aljoša Koltak
Lučka Počkaj
Luka Bokšan as guest
Borut Doljšak as guest
Žan Brelih Hatunić
Branko Završan
Barbara Medvešček
Eva Stražar
About the performance
Five Kings: The Psychopathology of a Monarchy is based on two tetralogies, i.e. the octology of William Shakespeare’s histories (Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Richard III). The plays investigate the legitimacy of power and the political theology of the time during one of the most brutal periods of English history, the Great Crisis of the Middle Ages (1290-1440), and the Hundred Years’ War with France (1327-1477), culminating in the civil war, the so-called "War of the Roses" (1455-1485) which ended with the defeat of Richard III and the ascension of the Tudor dynasty and the subsequent Elizabethan era. The medieval material and spiritual crisis, mirrored in the psychopathology of the five kings and condensed into a performance in its own right, is divided into five acts: Richard II, or Delusions of Grandeur; Henry IV, or the Paranoia of Maintaining Power; Henry V, or Nationalism (functioning as a manual for a successful imperial war); Henry VI, or Catatonia; and Richard III, or Genocide.
Duration: 4 hours and 20 minutes. One interval.
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