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Drago Jančar

The Great Brilliant Waltz

Premiere: 29 September 2012, Old Hall

Co-production with Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana and Maribor 2012 - European Capital of Culture

Political drama

Running time 3 hours and 15 minutes, one interval

Jančar’s drama The Great Brilliant Waltz (1985) metaphorically speaks about "re-education" of the people who disturb a usual political and social order.

After the night on the booze, a historian Simon Veber finds himself in a special institution for rehabilitation, which operates under the motto "the freedom liberates". By the experts’ decree, he is to become somebody else, i.e. a Polish rebel Drohojowski. The government system maintains its will to power by "re-education" of individualists who represent an imminent threat to the political system. In the opinion of male nurse Volodja, the always drunk Doctor, himself being also the principal of the institution, is not putting enough effort into Veber’s transformation, therefore Volodja, with his fascist sense of humour and love for music, takes over a baton of this infernal machinery which transforms individuals into shapeless, impersonal carnal formations with no values, ethics, or morals.

Cast

Simon Veber, historian, also Polish rebel Drohojowski - Vladimir Vlaškalić
Klara, his wife - Ksenija Mišič
Ljubica, anglicist, also painter - Mateja Pucko, Mirjana Šajinović
Volodja, male nurse - Vlado Novak
Doctor, director of the institution - Gregor Baković
Emerik, pianist - Kristijan Ostanek
Savel Pavel, Pavel - Alojz Svete
Tadej Pišek
Rajko, a solitary - Nejc Ropret, Matija Stipanič
Senior expert for metaphors - Tadej Toš
Junior expert for metaphors - Matevž Biber
Kapetan, army officer - Vojko Zidar
1st and 2nd male nurse - Ivica Knez
Doberman, a stammerer - Viktor Meglič
Nurse - Eva Kraš
Chopin - Bojan Maroševič, Jože Šalej

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