The PGC secret society is a legendary evergreen text, a children's classic. It was created in 1958 from the pen of the Slovenian writer Anton Ingolic, one of the first authors who, after the war, drew on the real life of young people and addressed their problems in their unusual adventures. With the popular and famous secret society Pingoclavulus, or PGC for short, different generations of children grew up, and for the first time the secret society PGC in a modern interpretation also came to life on our stage.
Ingolic wrote his story at the beginning of the socialist epoch, and our story in the adaptation of the non-combat Popa Tasi documentary takes place at its end, in eighty years. Childlike innocence has been replaced by childlike engagement by Tasi video. Ingolic's children stole and collected drawing pins from bulletin boards, and the children in our performance go one step further and hang their poems and slogans with these pins, which also provokes a "political" reaction and sanctions.
The performance explores the empty stage, which stimulates the viewer's imagination and allows the performers numerous transformations in space and time. Players ingeniously, playfully and dynamically transition between scenes and various antics of the secret society. In addition to a tense story, interesting characters and peculiar humor, there is no lack of even more serious topics. MIH's story is by no means just a short and dynamic story about Detective collecting drawing pins, but above all a story about heart, courage and friendship.
Mare Bulc is an award-winning theatre director who often creates plays for children and young people. At the Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, he directed, among others, the blockbusters secret society PGC and secret society KRVZ. In September 2022, he became artistic director of LGL.
Premiere: October 2016, St. Jacob'S stage LGL
Tajno društvo PGC je legendarno zimzeleno besedilo, otroška klasika. Nastalo je leta 1958 izpod peresa slovenskega pisatelja Antona Ingoliča, enega prvih avtorjev, ki je po vojni črpal iz resničnega življenja mladih in v njihovih nevsakdanjih dogodivščinah obravnaval njihove probleme. S priljubljenim in znamenitim tajnim društvom Pingoclavulusom oziroma krajše PGC-jem so odraščale različne generacije otrok, prvič pa je Tajno društvo PGC v sodobni interpretaciji zaživelo tudi na našem odru.
Ingolič je svojo zgodbo pisal v začetku socialistične epohe, naša zgodba v priredbi Nebojše Popa Tasića pa se dogaja ob njenem koncu, v osemdestih letih. Otroško nedolžnost je Tasić zamenjal z otroško angažiranostjo. Ingoličevi otroci so z oglasnih desk kradli in zbirali risalne žebljičke, otroci v naši predstavi pa stopijo korak dlje in s temi žebljički obešajo svoje pesmi in parole, kar izzove tudi »politično« reakcijo in sankcije.
Uprizoritev raziskuje prazen oder, ki spodbuja gledalčevo domišljijo in nastopajočim omogoča številne transformacije v prostoru in času. Igralci domiselno, igrivo in dinamično prehajajo med prizori in različnimi vragolijami tajnega društva. Poleg napete zgodbe, zanimivih karakterjev in svojstvenega humorja ne manjkajo niti resnejše teme. Mihova zgodba nikakor ni zgolj kratkočasna in dinamična zgodba o detektivskem zbiranju risalnih žebljičkov, ampak predvsem zgodba o srčnosti, pogumu in prijateljstvu.
Mare Bulc je nagrajevani gledališki režiser, ki pogosto ustvarja predstave za otroke in mlade. V Lutkovnem gledališču Ljubljana je med drugim režiral uspešnici Tajno društvo PGC in Skrivno društvo KRVZ. Septembra 2022 je postal umetniški vodja LGL.
Premiera: oktober 2016, Šentjakobski oder LGL