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“A Dead Man Comes for His Mistress”, a contemporary drama concert inspired by ancient traditional songs
Svetlana Makararovič’s play A Dead Man Comes for His Mistress will open on August 30 on the Small Hall stage of the National Theatre of Bucharest, within the 2015 NETA International Theatre Festival. Beneficiary of “The best show” of the 2013/2014 season in the Awards Gala of the Theatre Critics Association in Slovenia, the play is a remarkable achievement of a renowned director, Jernej Lorenci. The show is a coproduction of two theatres with distinct profiles, the “Prešeren Kranj” Theatre and the “Ptuj” Municipal Theatre in Slovenia, both with a mission of equally conveying modernity and preserving traditions. Jernej Lorenci, born in 1973, is considered in the Slovenian theatre as a unique director, with a profound artistic perception and an inquisitive eye, representative not only to his generation, but also too many more as well.
Svetlana Makararovič’s drama retains its aura of legend in Lorenci’s vision, based on the eponym traditional song and on the “Lenore” ballad by Burger, adapted by the famous Slovenian romantic poet Preseren.
The one hour and 50 minutes show, without break, will transport us to the world of borderline situations and fatal love. Where the world of the living and of the departed intertwine, the “living are not truly alive” and” the dead are not actually dead”. Svetlana Makararovič makes apology for the romantic love, which, as opposed to social and economic trends, continues to count on all or nothing.
The A Dead Man Comes for His Mistress play can be seen as a triumphant harmony of all scenic arts. The leitmotif of the story is approached methodically, from the human need for love and truth to the social reality of perverted relationships, painful stories of family and women whose place in society is marked, in a play characterised by a complex and poetic language. “With strongly contoured characters, the staging resembles a drama concert,” believes journalist Petra Tanko, from Radio Slovenia 1.
At the end of the Bucharest show, the company will meet the audience in the lobby. Throughout the NETA Festival, the show makers will meet mass media and the spectators for 30-minute discussion sessions, organized each day after the show. The entrance to these sessions is free of charge.
Tickets for the play are available at the Ticketing Agency of the NTB and online.
