Radovan Ivšić King Gordogain 120 min

King Gordogain

Performances

From 08. November 2024.

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Fri 19:30
08.11.
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Tue 19:30
12.11.
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Creatives

Director

Rene Medvešek

Dramaturg

Ana Prolić

Scene Designer

Tanja Lacko

Costume Designer

Doris Kristić

Music and Sound Animation

Matija Antolić

Composer of the score Gordo(r)gain

Zoran Šćekić

Lighting Designer

Aleksandar Čavlek

Assistant Director

Vito Sikirić

Assistant Costume Designer

Linda Mihaliček

Ensemble of the performance

The Knight / Royal Eyegouger

Marin Klišmanić

The Fool

Ivan Colarić

Prettyone / Peasant

Tesa Litvan

Loony / Peasant

Marin Stević

Gordogain

Ozren Grabarić

Princess Whiteskin

Lana Ujević

Teenyteen / Messenger

Igor Jurinić

Odan / Royal Earsnipper / Bird / Peasant

Kristijan Petelin

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Stage Manager

Roko Grbin

Prompter

Danijela Zobunđija

Premiere

25.10.2024
08.11

Creatives

Director

Rene Medvešek

Dramaturg

Ana Prolić

Scene Designer

Tanja Lacko

Costume Designer

Doris Kristić

Music and Sound Animation

Matija Antolić

Composer of the score Gordo(r)gain

Zoran Šćekić

Lighting Designer

Aleksandar Čavlek

Assistant Director

Vito Sikirić

Assistant Costume Designer

Linda Mihaliček

Ensemble of the performance

The Knight / Royal Eyegouger

Marin Klišmanić

The Fool

Ivan Colarić

Prettyone / Peasant

Tesa Litvan

Loony / Peasant

Marin Stević

Gordogain

Ozren Grabarić

Princess Whiteskin

Lana Ujević

Teenyteen / Messenger

Igor Jurinić

Odan / Royal Earsnipper / Bird / Peasant

Kristijan Petelin

-

Stage Manager

Roko Grbin

Prompter

Danijela Zobunđija

12.11

Creatives

Director

Rene Medvešek

Dramaturg

Ana Prolić

Scene Designer

Tanja Lacko

Costume Designer

Doris Kristić

Music and Sound Animation

Matija Antolić

Composer of the score Gordo(r)gain

Zoran Šćekić

Lighting Designer

Aleksandar Čavlek

Assistant Director

Vito Sikirić

Assistant Costume Designer

Linda Mihaliček

Ensemble of the performance

The Knight / Royal Eyegouger

Marin Klišmanić

The Fool

Ivan Colarić

Prettyone / Peasant

Tesa Litvan

Loony / Peasant

Marin Stević

Gordogain

Ozren Grabarić

Princess Whiteskin

Lana Ujević

Teenyteen / Messenger

Igor Jurinić

Odan / Royal Earsnipper / Bird / Peasant

Kristijan Petelin

-

Stage Manager

Roko Grbin

Prompter

Danijela Zobunđija

Radovan Ivšić (1921 − 2009), poet, translator, theoretician, nomad, enfant terrible of the surrealist movement and theatre revolutionary is a unique and complex author of the Croatian literary canon. His theatre involves collective resistance of every (self)imposed bourgeois taste or ideological decree, of every, to use his words subsidised boredom. His poetics is a space of unconquered freedom in which obedience is denounced in order for the theatre to return to its essence, body and poetry and to the silence that stands across them.

King Gordogain, Ivšić’s masterpiece is a kind of a theatre manifest. Its essence, the initial move, it draws from the alchemical compound of the ancient tragedy and a folk tale. In a magic kingdom, King Gordogain comes to power by killing the White King. He imprisons White, the daughter of his predecessor and heiress, in a tower. He declares his reign of terror as wise. He speaks of himself in the first-person plural, as if there is no world beyond his. But his kingdom is on the verge of collapse. Peasants are quarrelling over a tiny piece of land. While the court eye pullers and ear cutters do not cease to work, leaving behind monstruous sounds of destruction (eyes, ears and tongues) cif, čuf, caf, a brave and honourable knight is galloping towards the kingdom to liquidate Gordogain. Between a dream and a nightmare, the court and the forest, in Ivšić’s kingdom diverse beings sway and vibrate: the mysterious Loony, The Fool and Odan in ludic disputes, dryad Prettyone and her disdainful giggle…

This first staging of King Gordogain at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb will be carried out by stage director Rene Medvešek. The poetics of Rene Medvešek and Radovan Ivšić greatly overlap. They are both authors in search for theatre nudity and truth. The artistic work of Rene Medvešek and of Ivšić implies a stage of bodies and actors, dreams, poetry and silence, love and mean reality that are announced by three words: cif, čuf, caf.

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