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Miroslav Krleža: The Glembays

Date created: 10.03.2017.
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PREMIERE

Festival Drama Ensemble 

Miroslav Krleža: THE GLEMBAYS

                        A play in Three Acts

 

Zlatko Sviben, director 

 

Director and Dramaturge: ZLATKO SVIBEN
Music composed by: ZLATKO TANODI
Set Design and Screenings by: LEO VUKELIĆ
Costume Designer: BJANKA ADŽIĆ URSULOV
Choreography and Stage Movement Assistant: STAŠA ZUROVAC
Lighting Designer: IVO NIŽIĆ
Sound Engineer: CHRISTIAN KANAZIR
Linguistic Adviser: ĐURĐA ŠKAVIĆ
Assistant Director: VEDRAN KOMERIČKI

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
NACI (Ignjat Jacques) GLEMBAY, a banker, chief of the firm Glembay Ltd., privy councillor (age: 69): PREDRAG EJDUS
Baroness CASTELLI-GLEMBAY, his second legitimate wife (45): ANJA ŠOVAGOVIĆ DESPOT
Dr. phil. LEONE GLEMBAY, son of Ignjat and his first wife, born Basilides-Danielli (38): MIJO JURIŠIĆ
Sestra ANGELIKA GLEMBAY, a Dominican nun, widow of Glembay’s elder son Ivan, born Baroness Beatrix Zygmuntowicz (29): BOJANA GREGORIĆ VEJZOVIĆ
TITUS ANDRONICUS FABRICZY-GLEMBAY, banker Glembay’s cousin, grand rector, retired (69): DAMIR LONČAR
Dr. iuris PUBA FABRICZY-GLEMBAY, his son, a lawyer, legal adviser to the Glembay Ltd., (28): MLADEN VUJČIĆ
Dr. med. PAUL ALTMANN, a physician (51): VLADIMIR POSAVEC TUŠEK
Dr. theol. et phil. ALOJZIJE SILBERBRANDT, Baroness’ confessor and instructor to her son, (39): AMAR BUKVIĆ
OLIVER GLEMBAY, son of Baroness Castelli and banker Glembay (17): LUJO KUNČEVIĆ
Ulanski OBERLEUTNANT VON BALLOCSANSZKY a cavalry lieutenant (24): ROBERT BOŠKOVIĆ
A chamberlain: VEDRAN KOMERIČKI
A chambermaid: MARIJA KOLB
GUESTS (a young physician, a most illustrious canon, a lady, an elderly gentleman, a law undergraduate, two gentlemen and ladies, first elderly lady, second elderly lady, one of the jeunesse dorée, first gentleman, an elderly countess, a little girl, first lady[of Agram], second lady [of Agram], a general, an elderly gentleman, a member of the ban doctors legion, a young ulhan officer, one of bank advisers, an elderly lady): MARINA BAŽULIĆ, LUKA BJELICA, MARO DROBNIĆ, DŽON GEČEVIĆ, ŠIŠKO HORVAT MAJCAN, MARIJA KOLB, VEDRAN KOMERIČKI, STJEPAN LACH, KARMEN SUNČANA LOVRIĆ, PERICA MARTINOVIĆ

[DEAD SOULS]:
[BÁRBÓCZY’S OLD LADY, blue blood and first in genealogy]: PERICA MARTINOVIĆ
[IRENA DANIELLI-BASILIDES in the bathroom; †1896.]: PERICA MARTINOVIĆ
[АLICE from the boat on the River Kupa; †1902.]: KARMEN SUNČANA LOVRIĆ
[RUPERTOVA an old beggar woman; †1913.]: PERICA MARTINOVIĆ
[CANJEGOVA jumping from the window; †1913.]: MARINA BAŽULIĆ
[RUPERT JOSIP from the new building; †1913.]: LUKA BJELICA
[ANTUN SKOMRAK a clerk at the Baroness Castelli’s charitable office; †1913.]: STJEPAN LACH
[Chorus in Leone Glembay’s mind]:
LUKA BJELICA, MARINA BAŽULIĆ, MARO DROBNIĆ, DŽON GEČEVIĆ, ŠIŠKO HORVAT MAJCAN, MARIJA KOLB, STJEPAN LACH, KARMEN SUNČANA LOVRIĆ

Stage Managers: VIRGINIJA BOLFEK, VEDRAN KOMERIČKI
Répétiteur: DANIJELA PETRIĆ 
Soloist at the recording of Zlatko Tanodi's Requiem: LIDIJA HORVAT-DUNJKO

 

The story takes place in the course of a late summer night, one year before the outbreak of the 1914-1918 war.
Act One between one and two thirty am.
Act Two between two thirty and three thirty am.
Act Three around five am.

 

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Dubrovnik Museum of Modern Art, the Zagreb Puppet Theatre, the Gavella Dramatic City Theatre, the Croatian National Theatre of Zagreb and the Croatian National Theatre of Osijek in the preparation and realization of this play.