Ivo Svetina
In the Name of the Mother
SNT Drama Ljubljana
Schedule
Première: 8 December 2018, SNT Drama Ljubljana
Running time 3 hours 35 minutes. One interval.
Director Ivica Buljan
Artistic consultant Robert Waltl
Dramaturg Mojca Krajnc
Author of the Exhibition Kapital 2018 IRWIN
Costume designer Ana Savić Gecan
Composer Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
Lighting and video designers sonda57 and Toni Soprano Meneglejte
Language consultant Arko
Assistent to director Luka Marcen
Costume designer assistant Sara Smrajc Žnidarčič
Cast
Anton Santini (1845–1929) Janez Škof
Katarina (1850–1919), his second wife Veronika Drolc
Anton Santini ml. (1875–1892), their son Gal Oblak
Ivan Santini (1851–1936), Anton’s brother, a canon Saša Tabaković
Vida Vovk (1875–1932), a teacher in Zasip, a poet Nina Valič
Ivo Santini (1882–1923), Anton and Katarina’s son Klemen Janežič
Marija (1885–1958), born Entor, his wife Pia Zemljič
Vladimir (1908–1988), resistance code name Ivo, their son Aljaž Jovanović
Armela (1907–1987), their daughter Maša Derganc
Bogdan (1912–1939), their son Andraž Harauer
Vida (1913–1993), their daughter Sabina Kogovšek
Leon Okrožnik (1905–1942?), Armela’s fiancé, later her husband Nik Škrlec
Egidij Matič (1911–2002), Vida’s fiancé, later her husband Martin Mlakar
Tatjana (1939–1989), Bogdan Santini’s and Meta Štraus’ daughter Lana Bučevec
Tili (1936) Nika Vidic
Mira (1915–2007), resistance code name Vlasta Barbara Cerar
Alojz (1908–1942), resistance code name Štefan, her husband Žan Brelih Hatunić
Nasta (1941), their daughter Julija Klavžar
Vlasta (1946), Mira – Vlasta’s and Vladimir – Ivo’s daughter Lara Fortuna
Ivo (1948), Mira – Vlasta’s and Vladimir – Ivo’s son Luka Bokšan
Nastja (1941–1991), Armela’s and Leon’s daughter Saša Pavlin Stošić
Poet, Hauptmann Sterngrüber, Interrogator Marko Mandić
The voyage of the family S. through the 20th century is not a Carniolan version of One Hundred Years of Solitude, but a semi-documentary tale of a family originating in a village at the foot of Stol in the north of Slovenia. It is a story of a family that refused to remain a passive observer of history, but tried to become its co-creator, even though it carried along a dark shadow of doubt in life and looked for redemption underneath an empty sky, in death.
A chorus of female characters, including the poet Vida Jerajeva, the daughters of revolutionaries, national heroes, who grew up in the late 1950s and early 1960s, grounds the male characters who prefer to live in the zone of ideas rather than making them come true in the real world. In the same way as giving birth is such a joy for a woman, death is an unfathomable force, a passion for life, for struggle, for victory.
When the century is at its end and the Slovenians get their independent state, history spins around in a single August afternoon as if on a carousel; the living and the dead are dancing their casual Sunday chat ...
Director
Ivica Buljan was born in 1965 in Sinj, Croatia. Initially, he started working in theatre as a dramaturg. In 1995 he started directing too. In his capacity as a theatre director, he has worked in various European countries. His productions have toured widely at many prominent festivals and won several international awards. At the SNT Drama Ljubljana he directed, among others, the highly acclaimed Oedipus in Corinth (2006/7), The Noble Glembays (2011/12), Storm Still (2012/13), and Yugoslavia, My Country (2014/15). He has also served as artistic director, festival director, editor, translator, lecturer and author of adaptations. From 1998 to 2002 he was the director of the Croatian National Theatre Drama in Split. In 1999 he founded the Mini teater in Ljubljana, together with Robert Waltl. Since 2014 he has been the director of the Croatian National Theatre Drama in Zagreb.
Producer
SNT Drama Ljubljana is the central drama theatre in Slovenia, with the largest, most recognizable and respected ensemble, which consists of 43 actresses and actors. Drama's repertory includes classical, contemporary and experimental theatre productions.
