May, 8th, 6,00 pm
Croatian National Theatre “Ivan pl. Zajc”
Croatian National Theatre “Ivan pl. Zajc”, Rijeka –Croatia

Miroslav Krleža: “KRALJEVO”

Directed by: Vito Taufer

Actors:: Žarko Potočnjak, Denis Brižić, Ecija Ojdanić, Galliano Pahor
Citizens: Zdenko Botić, Dražen Mikulić, Slavko Šestak, Davor Jureško, Bosnimir Ličanin, Predrag Sikimić, Nenad Vukelić; Građanke: Marija Geml, Ivana Savić Čagljević, Andrea Blagojević Mangano, Biljana Lovre, Sabina Salamon, Ana Kvrgić, Zrinka Kolak Fabijan and members of Balet, Choir and Orchestra Zbora of Croatian National Theatre
Composer: Stanko Juzbašić
Choreographer: Matjaž Farič
Stage Designer: Dalibor Laginja
Costume Designer: Barbara Stupica
Light Designer: Deni Šesnić
Masques: Alana Hajdinjak

Renewal: 3rd 12 1999

The merry-go-round spinning with the living and the dead who love and hate, fall and rise, as individuals, loners, or as a crowd, once again has arrived to the theatre in Rijeka, showing how it’s possible to ring out the old and ring in the new.
“If the Kraljevo of 1991 stressed the brutality and inebriety of that whirlpool, this renewal stresses frivolity and waiting. It depicts a Beckettian world.
Vito Taufer, From the programme booklet

At that time… “in a surprisingly absurd, clownish and ludic manner, seemingly totally inappropriate to Krleza’s work, Taufer pointed his warning finger at eternal Croatian frustrations. That was a dynamic and flexible show, while this one adheres to ideas of stagnant decay, being statically decomposed into sequences of brilliant and humorous sparks, none the less cautioning, if there still exist fools that need be warned…”
Dalibor Foretić, Novi list