Directed by Diego De Brea
Comedy
Premiere September 2024
Bratko Kreft (1905-1996) had a strong influence on Slovenian culture and art with his work and thought. He was an artist and thinker of a wide range – director, playwright, playwright, theatrologist, literati, storyteller, publicist, professor, literary historian, philosopher. He believed in the power and mission of theater. Already in the season 1930/31 he got a job at the then Slovenian National Theatre as a director, after the war in April 1946 he got a job again at the then renamed SNG Drama Ljubljana as a dramaturg, later he also acted as a director. He introduced more demanding texts into the repertoire, both classical and modern. He received the first prize of the Preseren fund for his refill and direction of Tugomer in 1948, the second prize of the Preseren fund in 1957 for his direction of Shakespeare's Henry IV. , and in 1975 the Preserna prize for Lifetime Achievement in the field of literary and theatrical art.
He is the author of more than ten plays – some of which remained unfinished – which fit stylistically into the era of social realism. He began his dramatic work with a drama from the life of medieval feudal lords counts of Celje , continued with a bitter satire of creatures and a historical chronicle of the Great puntaria, and ended it with a noble comedy The krajna comedians . With an undisguised and revolutionary consciousness, he intervened in history and, through it, showed the present of his time, which is why his dramatic stories are expressive parables of chaotic modernity. Kreft founded social realism with his dramatic oeuvre and gave it a decidedly critical direction, thus supplementing and expanding Jurcic-Levstik's Tugomer in the historical word and spirit of his time.
In the so-called favourite Slovenian merry-go-round, the krajna comedians (1946), he drew on Linhart's Mayor Micka and Maticka and wrote a comedy that seems to have been Linhart's. With comedy, he managed to answer the eternal question about the authorship of Matic and Micka . The comedy is a skilfully written and imagined interweaving of real and fictional events in 1789, when a real folk play in Slovenia , Linhart's Mayor Micka, was first staged on the stage of the Ljubljana Stanovski theatre, and picturesquely shows the atmosphere of this event. The work is written in the language of Linhart's time in a rococo manner and reveals the cultural focus of the time and the Ljubljana educated people and their struggle for the Slovenian language and the Slovenian Theatre. The joyful comedy reveals layers of awakening of Man and nation, strength, courage, but also madness and playfulness.
"The theatre play Krajna comedians is a sharply critical as well as polemically political farce, which reconstructs the historical events of the formation of Slovenian theatre and language with the help of suggestive situational as well as strongly marked character comics. In it, the author, with a distinctly national and constitutive attitude, which was the only one able to overcome with his audacity and courage the misunderstandings, provocations and also the open hatred that Slovenians have always been subjected to in subordinate positions within countries and systems in which we were forced to live and act traveled and unrecognized, anthemically revives the cultural and artistic banner of our Slovenian identification moment. Kreft, moreover, opens the true birth of our autonomy and our self-awareness. The game is a reminder to all of us how strong and much needed the efforts of the individuals of the Slovenian nation have been to justify political independence, to respect human rights and freedoms, and above all to achieve full sovereignty, which is constituted primarily through the implementation of their own language.«
Diego De Brea
Režiser Diego de Brea
Komedija
Premiera septembra 2024
Bratko Kreft (1905–1996) je s svojim delom in mislijo močno vplival na slovensko kulturo in umetnost. Bil je umetnik in mislec širokega spektra – režiser, dramaturg, dramatik, teatrolog, književnik, pripovednik, publicist, profesor, literarni zgodovinar, filozof. Verjel je v moč in poslanstvo gledališča. Že v sezoni 1930/31 se je zaposlil v takratnem Slovenskem narodnem gledališču kot režiser, po vojni se je aprila 1946 ponovno zaposlil v takrat že preimenovani SNG Drama Ljubljana kot dramaturg, kasneje je deloval tudi kot režiser. V repertoar je uvajal zahtevnejša besedila, tako klasična kot sodobna. Prvo nagrado Prešernovega sklada je prejel za prepesnitev in režijo Tugomera leta 1948, drugo nagrado Prešernovega sklada je prejel leta 1957 za režijo Shakespearovega Henrika IV. , leta 1975 pa še Prešernovo nagrado za življenjsko delo na področju literarne in gledališke umetnosti.
Je avtor več kot desetih dram – nekatere so sicer ostale nedokončane –, ki se slogovno uvrščajo v obdobje socialnega realizma. Svoj dramski opus je začel z dramo iz življenja srednjeveških fevdalcev Celjski grofje , nadaljeval z grenko satiro Kreature in zgodovinsko kroniko Velika puntarija ter ga zaključil z žlahtno komedijo Krajnski komedijanti . Z neprikrito in revolucionarno zavestjo je posegal v zgodovino in preko nje prikazal sedanjost svojega časa, zato so njegove dramske zgodbe izrazite prispodobe kaotične sodobnosti. Kreft je s svojim dramskim opusom utemeljil socialni realizem in mu dal odločno kritično smer, tako je v historični besedi in duhu svojega časa dopolnil in razširil Jurčič-Levstikovega Tugomera.
V tako imenovani najljubeznivejši slovenski veseloigri Krajnski komedijanti (1946) se je oprl na Linhartovo Županovo Micko in Matička in napisal komedijo, za katero se zdi, da bi lahko bila tudi Linhartova. S komedijo mu je uspelo odgovoriti na večno vprašanje o avtorstvu Matička in Micke . Komedija je spretno napisan in domišljen preplet resničnih in izmišljenih dogodkov leta 1789, ko je bila na odru ljubljanskega Stanovskega gledališča prvič uprizorjena prava ljudska igra na Slovenskem, Linhartova Županova Micka , in slikovito prikazuje vzdušje ob tem dogodku. Delo je napisano v jeziku Linhartovega časa v rokokojski maniri in razkriva tedanje kulturno žarišče in ljubljanske izobražence ter njihov boj za slovenski jezik ter slovensko gledališče. Radostna komedija odkriva plasti prebujanja človeka in naroda, moč, pogum, pa tudi norost in igrivost.
»Gledališka igra Krajnski komedijanti je ostro kritična, pa tudi polemično politična farsa, ki s pomočjo sugestivne situacijske pa tudi močno zaznamovane karakterne komike, rekonstruira zgodovinske dogodke formiranja slovenskega gledališča in jezika. V njej avtor z izrazito narodnobuditeljsko in konstitutivno držo, ki je edina lahko s svojo drznostjo in pogumom presegla nesporazume, provokacije in tudi odkrita sovraštva, ki smo jih bili Slovenci vseskozi deležni v podrejenih položajih znotraj držav in sistemov, v katerih smo bili primorani živeti in delovati potujeno in nepriznano, himnično oživlja kulturno-umetniško prapočelo našega slovenskega identifikacijskega trenutka. Kreft, še več, odpira pravo rojstvo naše avtonomnosti in našega samozavedanja. Igra je opomin vsem nam, kako močna in prepotrebna so bila prizadevanja posameznikov slovenskega naroda za utemeljevanje politične samostojnosti, za spoštovanje človekovih pravic in svoboščin, predvsem pa za dosego popolne suverenosti, ki se konstituira predvsem s pomočjo uveljavitve lastnega jezika.«
Diego de Brea, režiser