Thursday, 8th May 20254. 7:30pm
Croatian House of Culture in Sušak
Prešern Theatre Kranj and City Theatre Ptuj, Slovenia

Milan Ramšak Marković: A rainy day in GURLITSCH

Director: Sebastijan Horvat
Dramaturgy: Milan Ramšak Marković
Set design: Igor Vasiljev
Costume design: Belinda Radulović
Music: Drago Ivanuša
Light design: Aleksandar Čavlek
Cast: Aljoša Ternovšek, Vesna Pernarčič, Živa Selan, Borut Veselko, Darja Rajhman, Vesna Slapar, Miha Rodman, Blaž Setnikar, Miha Nemec

Running time: 125 minutes, without intermission

Peter and Ingrid, a married couple in their late thirties, live a comfortable life in the suburbs. Apart from an occasional nuisance, their only real issue is their previous unsuccessful attempts to have children. We meet them on the day a necklace that has a great sentimental and material value disappears from the house, causing a serious family crisis. The husband, obsessively searching for the culprit, explores the dark side of the city, but also his own subconscious, and enters a half-world he never knew existed. The play, based on a text by the award-winning playwright Milan Ramšak Marković, not only analyses the identity crisis of the European middle class, but also deals with the trauma caused by the loss of a valuable object. Which is better – to face the feeling of loss or the realization that the thing we grieve for was never really ours? The play has won multiple international awards.

From the reviews:
The protagonist’s journey to the bottom of existence takes him from a comfortable neighbourhood to local taverns, deserted parking lots and to the damp ground of the dark forest, from the well-established relationships among the increasingly sinister characters on the margins he does not understand. In this process of personal disintegration, he becomes eventually more and more similar to the world he does not belong to.
Gregor Butala, Dnevnik

(Photo: Nada Žgank)