The Queen Mother

Original title Regina Madre

Première: 16. 11. 2018, Koper Theatre
Running time 1 hour 25 minutes. No interval.

Director Damir Zlatar Frey
Translator Gašper Malej
Choreographer, set and costume designer Damir Zlatar Frey
Assistant set and costume designer Tina Dobrajc
Dramaturg Rok Andres
Assistant directors Rok Andres, Renata Vidič
Lighting designer Jaka Varmuž
Author of videoanimation Noemi Zonta
Assistant setdesigner Mito Gegič
Language consultant Barbara Rogelj

Cast
Regina Giannelli Nataša Barbara Gračner
Alfredo Giannelli Aleš Valič

After a shipwrecked marriage and a failed career in journalism, the 50-year-old Alfredo returns to live with his ageing, widowed, yet still dominant mother Regina, ostensibly to care for her during her illness; but what he really wants is to write a bestseller about the last months of the life and the death of the old lady. Life with mother escalates into the unexpected; The Queen Motheris a play about power and appropriation, rejection and hatred. The play about a mother and a son who, each in their own way, long for inner calm and embark on the path of incessant blackmailing, mutual insults, vengeance, lies. In their microcosm of constant recalling and denying borders they stalk, search, reject appropriate present, past and future and in the menacing mood swings approach the grotesque. Although the son is the one who loses in their "duel" – just like in couples linked by life and death – it is not possible to legitimately separate winners from losers. ž