Rainy Day in Gurlitsch

Première: 27 March 2023, Prešeren Theatre Kranj 
Running time 2 hours and 5 minutes. No intermission.

Director Sebastijan Horvat

Dramaturg Milan Ramšak Marković
Set designer and video designer Igor Vasiljev
Costume designer Belinda Radulović
Composer Drago Ivanuša
Lightning designer Aleksandar Čavlek
Language consultant Barbara Rogelj
Make-up stylist Matej Pajntar
Assistant dramaturg Lučka Neža Peterlin
Assistant set designer Jera Topolovec
Assistant costume designer Bojana Fornazarič

Cast 
Aljoša Ternovšek
Vesna Pernarčič
Živa Selan
Borut Veselko
Darja Reichman
Vesna Slapar
Miha Rodman
Blaž Setnikar
Miha Nemec, as guest

By describing the identity crisis of the European middle class, the play speaks to the dual nature of the trauma caused by loss: is it more important to confront the feeling of loss, or the fact that we grieve for something we never really had?
A married couple in their late thirties live a comfortable life in the suburbs of Klagenfurt. Apart from worrying about crises such as a new war in Europe, increasing social inequality and the threat of climate change, their only serious problem and life challenge so far is their unsuccessful attempts to have a child. We enter their story on the day they discover that an expensive necklace has disappeared, which, in addition to its material value, also has great emotional value as a gift from a well-known Austrian post-war feminist author. The feeling is all the worse because the necklace was not stolen on the street, but from their home. The decision to find the culprit leads to a part of the city that the couple did not even know existed.
 

Director

Sebastijan Horvat was born in Maribor in 1971. He studied theatre directing with Professor Dušan Jovanović at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. He graduated in 1998 with the staging of Elsinor, an original adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The production won the University of Ljubljana Prešeren Award for directing. In 2007, Horvat received the national Prešeren Fund Award for theatre direction in the two-year period. He is one of the founders of the independent theatre institute E.P.I. center and a lecturer at the Department of Theatre and Film at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. In 2005, he received the Montblanc Young Directors Project Award for his staging of Alamut, co-produced by the SNT Drama Ljubljana. His other successful collaborations with the Drama Ljubljana (Main Stage and Small Stage) include Romantic Souls by Ivan Cankar, Mother by Bertolt Brecht and In the Republic of Happiness by Martin Crimp

Producer

In the Slovenian theatre space, they are recognisable for thematically provocative, aesthetically refined and socially engaged performances. Their repertoire is focused on socially and politically engaged works of current contemporary playwrights (Slovenian and international), fresh interpretations of classic works, staging of innovative dramatic forms and themes, poetic theatrical language and a selection of the most prominent directorial and acting names. They are also the organizers of the Slovenian Drama Week, a festival where the best performances created in Slovenia and abroad, on the basis of Slovenian dramatic texts, are presented every year. They also pay special attention to quality performances for children and youth.