The Slovenian National Theater (SNG) Nova Gorica will trees at 8 p.m put a new premiere on the stage of the Cultural Center in Šempas this season The dying god Triglavauthor’s project Mojce Madon. The christening performance is a co-production of SNG Nova Gorica and the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT). The author of the project wanted to stage the play on smaller stages, in village cultural centers, which is why even after the premiere they will be looking for other places where they can stage the play.

The struggle to preserve Slovenian identity during fascismFrance Bevk is to tell the story The dying god Triglav – as with some of his other works – set it in the Middle Ages, which allowed him to avoid the ban on the publication of the book, which was published in 1930. But its content clearly called his compatriots to defend Slovenia, because during fascism, Slovenians easily identified with the content of the story, where danger comes from the west in the form of the Inquisition.

“Reminding of the old faith, another mythology with another origin and another cultural basis was the struggle to preserve identity during the fascism in Primorska. It is this process of fictitious escape into history with the aim of opening up questions that are still hot and polemical today, which creates an insight into the topicality of the staging of Bevko’s narrative.” said the author of the project.

The staging is actually the master’s work of Mojca Madon, who believes that theatrical staging can turn an individual reading of a literary work into a collective one – that the play comes to life as an independent whole and not just as a dramatized literary work that wants to present the content of the original as faithfully as possible.

“If you want to go forward, you have to go back first““Everyone takes from the performance what they see, hear, what they touch. In one sentence, I would only say a sentence from the play: If you want to go forward, you must first go back,” said the author of the project. Actor Blaž Chief and he added: “The reminder of the old faith was a struggle to preserve identity.”

The performance was created in a group, as all the participants, in addition to the director, created it. Along with Blaž Šef and Mojca Madon, they also perform Tamara Augustin, Ivana Percan Kodarin, Maja Pole, German, Saksid stamp and Marjuta Slamič. He took care of the costume design Andrej Vrhovnikand for music Luka Ipavecshe is a scenography consultant Urša Vidic, Jaka Smerkolj Simoneti and dramaturgy consultant.