Lovro Kuhar – Prežihov Voranc
Struggle at the Sinkhole
Prešeren Theatre Kranj and City Theatre Ptuj
Schedule
| 30.03.2025 | at 19:30 | Prešeren Theatre Kranj, hall |
Crew
Director: Jernej Lorenci
Choreographer and assistant director: Gregor Luštek
Dramaturg: Marinka Poštrak
Set designer: Branko Hojnik
Costume designer: Belinda Radulović
Composer: Branko Rožman
Language consultant: Maja Cerar
Lighting designer: Nejc Plevnik
Sound designers: Matija Zelič, Stefan Gladović
Make-up artist: Matej Pajntar
Assistant to the dramaturg: Tilen Oblak
Assistant to the composer: Jure Žavbi
The song "Zdaj smo delo dokončali" is sung by Varja Mihajlović Cerar and Daša Selan.
Cast
Darja Reichman
Živa Selan
Blaž Setnikar/Gregor Luštek as guest
Branko Jordan as guest
About the performance
Prežihov Voranc’s texts Struggle at the Sinkhole, Teardrops and The Self-Sown are considered Slovenian literary classics, and their film adaptations have helped to etch them deep into the historical memory of the Slovenian nation. The poignant story of the Dihur family, struggling to survive on their harsh, muddy patch of land, is literally written into our genes. Today, the cult story also allows us a reading that reveals all those "overlooked", not yet fully articulated layers of this unbelievably cruel story.
The story of the Dihurs is thus not just a story from some distant rural past: it is very much one we still live in today, and increasingly so amid the social distress, albeit in perhaps a little more sophisticated and covert form. The violence that occurs as a consequence of the struggle to survive and of the powerlessness when fighting the land and bureaucracy – be it in a village or a town – always finds its path to cruelty. Through his sensitive and radical staging approach, director Jernej Lorenci touches upon the theme of cruelty and the struggle to survive.
"Running in place, the mode of movement that in contemporary Slovenian theatre frequently serves as a metaphor for social and intimate hopelessness, appears in Struggle at the Sinkhole as a perfect image of choreography and music or sound. The production’s excellent cast members do not step out of the minimalist performing frame, neither with their exhausted bodies nor with their breathless voices. This is a production about the controlled and contained distress that kills – inwardly and outwardly. Struggle at the Sinkhole meticulously continues and completes Jernej Lorenci’s theatre opus." Petra Vidali, Večer, 30 March 2024
The performance is 2 hours long.
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