Everyman

Koper Theatre & Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica

Running time 1 hour and 35 minutes. No interval.
The production is subtitled in English.
Première: 24 November 2011, Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica and 25 November 2011, Koper Theatre

Director Vito Taufer
Set and costume designer Samo Lapajne
Composer Iztok Mlakar
Lighting designers Samo Oblokar, Jaka Varmuž
Make-up designer Nastja Starič

Cast     
Everyman Iztok Mlakar
Wife Marjuta Slamič
Poor Man, Gerdarme, Lawyer Rok Matek
Mother Teja Glažar
Friend, Politician Igor Štamulak
Rufiana Ajda Toman
Financier, God Ivo Barišič
Death Radoš Bolčina

Instrumental trio David Trebižan (piano), David Šuligoj (double bass), Roman Kobal (percussion)

This time, Iztok Mlakar was inspired by Hugo Hofmannsthal who wrote Everyman – a play on the death of a rich man based on the English mediaeval morality play The Sononynge of Everyman – exactly 100 years ago for the Salzburg Festival. Mlakar’s Joseph Everyman – Pepi – is torn between the here and the beyond: here he dances between his Wife, the Poor Man, the Friend, the Gerdarme, Rufiana, and the Holy Trinity of Lawyer, Politician and Financier; beyond he dances between Death, God, Mother and Devil. He is aware that nothing in life is certain except death and taxes. But what is essentially the story of the contemporary Everyman? Through the whirlwind of the present-day ordeal and despite the agitated storms of everyday life, the end still doesn’t bring redemption but …