Angels in America (A Gay Fantasia on National Themes)

Original title Angels in America, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika
Première: 3 May 2023, Mini Theatre Ljubljana

Running time 5 hours. One intermission.

Post-performance discussion

Director Ivica Buljan

Translator Miha Avanzo
Dramaturg Diana Koloini
Set designer Aleksandar Denić
Costume designer Ana Savić Gecan
Composer Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
Author of Holly Hell visual intervention Mark Požlep
Lightning designer and video designer Sonda 13, Toni Soprano Meneglejte
Language consultants Martin Vrtačnik, Nika Korenjak 
Assistant costume designer Ana Janc
Make-up and hair stylists Mirela Brkić, Nina Gudeljević
Executive producer Branislav Cerović
 

Cast
Robert Waltl
Timon Šturbej
Saša Pavlin Stošić
Domen Valič
Nejc Cijan Garlatti
Nina Violić
Petja Labović
Barbara Vidovič

Angels in America first appeared on theatre stages in the early 1990s and immediately established itself as the most representative and, in the opinion of many, the best American play of the last decades. An explicitly gay play, its characters are predominantly gay men and their problems are gay problems – but only on the surface, just as AIDS is a disease that at first glance primarily threatens gay men and drug addicts. The problems of Kushner's characters are universal: he accurately captures a representative image of a world through a marginal group with a specific, acute problem. AIDS is thus merely a symptom, a crisis that sharpens the permanent crisis of our civilisation.

Director

Ivica Buljan graduated in French Language and Comparative Literature from the University of Zagreb. He worked as a theatre critic, and in 1995 he started working as a director when he staged Pascal Quignard's The Name at the Top of the Tongue in Ljubljana. From 1998 to 2001 he was Director of Drama at the Croatian National Theatre Split. He is the co-founder of Mini teater in Ljubljana and the World Theatre Festival in Zagreb. He has won numerous Borštnik Awards, the Sterija Award, the Vjesnik Dubravko Dujšin Award, the Branko Gavella Award, the Petar Brečić Award, the City of Havana Medal and the highest award of the Republic of Slovenia in the field of the arts, the Prešeren Fund Award. He is a recipient of the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of the Government of the Republic of France. From 2014 to 2022, he was the director of the Drama of the Croatian National Theatre Zagreb.
 

Producer

Mini teater (1999), founded by Robert Waltl and Ivica Buljan, set up its house in the landscape of Slovenian art at a time when the aesthetics of the eighties, after the zenith of the nineties, began to live in a new generation of directors. Baroque-visual theater, retro-avant-garde, post-political theater and formalist research on the one hand, and Mini teater as a new, extreme border place, set in the tradition of European art theater, by authors such as Peter Brook, Ariana Mnouschkina, Giorgio Strehler, Patrice Chereau, Anatoly Vasilyev, and the American avant-garde from the Living Theater to Ellen Stewart and her La Mama.

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