LEONCE AND LENA
Po motivih Georga Büchnerja
Based on the motifs by Georg Büchner
Translation: Jože Udovič
Stage Direction: Ivana Djilas
Adaptation and Dramaturgy: Tatjana Doma
Set Design: Branko Hojnik
Costume Design: Jelena Proković
Music: Boštjan Gombač
Movement Design: Bojana Mišić
Video Design: Vesna Krebs
Voice and Speech Coach: Alida Bevk
Vocal Coach: Ana Duša
Lighting Design: Srečo Brezovar
PERFORMERS:
King Peter: Iztok Valič
Leonce: Jernej Čampelj g.a.
Lena: Ana Hribar
Valerio: Jernej Kuntner
The Governess: Alenka Tetičkovič
The President: Jan Bučar
Rosetta: Nina Ivanič
The People’s Representative: Matevž Müller g.a.
Premiere: 10th May 2012, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Šentjakob Stage
Stage Manager, Sound Engineer and Video Projection: Aca Ilić
Sound Engineer: Emil Koprivc
Lighting Technician: Mirsad Vrević
Stage Technicians and Property Men: Tomo Hvastja, Darko Nedeljković
Hair and Makeup Artist: Ana Lazovski
Wardrobe Mistress: Emina Kaliman
Set, Costumes and Props Production: Delo osvobaja d.o.o., Iztok Bobić, Sandra Birjukov, Zoran Srdić, Marjeta Valjavec
Life is such a bore! And it is exactly how Prince Leonce and Princess Lena feel about it too, as they try to resist their parents’ demands and societal expectations with boredom, tiredness and overindulgence, beneath which they actually hide their great distress. Their escape is a revolt, a stifled cry for help, which nobody is willing to hear. The questions, they are asking themselves on their funny journey – which brings them back, from where they ran away and makes them realise that no road is longer from the one leading to oneself - are the questions about the purpose of existence and being.
This time Büchner’s comedy Leonce and Lena, which was written in 1836 and keeps agitating us as a satirical critique of society, is staged as editing of the adolescents’ modern life scenes, citing the elements of street art, and playing with the allusions to commercials, video spots, music hits, stars, in short, the allusions to all that the young people are bombarded with nowadays.
Appropriate age: for teenagers aged fifteen and older
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