Dushan Jovanovi /
Directed By: Luka Marcen
Director: Luka Marcen
Dramaturg: Tatjana Doma
Set Designer: Sara Slivnik
Costume Designer: Ana Janc
Proofreader: Renato Horvat
Gib consultant: Lara Ekar Grlj
Composer: Martin Vogrin
Light designer: Mojca Sarjas
Premiere: 8. June 2024, St. James stage.
The performance lasts 1 hour 15 minutes and has no break.
Comedian of the festival, Lili Bacer Kermavner (Lucinda), 21. pekre Comedy festival, 30. 3. 2025
Cast:
Pandolfo: Damijan Perne
Lucinda: Lili Bacer Kermavner
Ubaldo: Edi Gril
Ardelia: Katarina Batagelj
Valery: Gregor Usenik
Stoppino: Ziga Medvesek*
Benjamin Fele / Miha Zemic
Franceschina: Tina Drobez
Cola: Domain Root
Colombina: Masha The Bear
* Jump into the role of stoppin: lucky Kermavner (18. 3. 2025)
Other contributors:
Performance manager and prop: Marko Skok | stage technicians: Ivan Kostanjevec, Gregor t Animaljevec, Miha Vlaj / processing of stage elements: Ivan Kostanjevec | lighting technician: Gregor t Animaljrner | sound technician: Miha Vlaj / Maskerki: Incognito design, Nina Toplak / wardrobe technician: Marko Skok, Bojan Vister
About the show:
The cult text again on the St. James stage.
"We want foreign –
we don't give ours!
We jump over the fence –
we've been working all night!«
In Dushan Jovanovi's early dramatic opus, The Comedy Life of rural playboys or Foreign we want-we don't give ours stands out a bit at first glance, as it quite faithfully maintains the form of comedy; in addition, it even relies on a template, a work entitled Three cuckolds by an unknown author, which belongs to the tradition of commedia dell'arte. The plays were written in 1972 on the wings of spring ’68, but also influenced by the situation in the then Yugoslavia, to which the then youngest generation of creators reacted. A new phenomenon emerged in their works: ludism. Mainly as a peculiar answer to the "difficult" topics of the first post-war generation. It is characterized by complete detachment from any search for meaning, answers or solutions to human existential distress. He accepts things as they are and, instead of bleaching his head by looking for a way out of adversity, prefers to let go of the flow of events in a relaxed game.
A joyful comedy where everything revolves around bed Affairs and sensual pleasure. Jumping over the fence, jealousy, tricks and through this premonition of the emptied spirit of society. These are persons not only of different sexes, but also of different social statuses, but who are absolutely equal and equal in a bunch of messesand playful eroticism. In them we recognize today's people who are funny in their headless craving for pleasure, feeling of endless freedom and fear of missing something in life. Youthful energy in the fast-paced comedy rhythm of one of the greats of Slovenian drama and theatre, Dusan Jovanovi 6.
Link to the theater sheet.