Director
49th Maribor Theatre Festival
First Slovene Production
Director
13 December 2013
Small Stage
Duration:
An escape from the outside world is one of the goals for which many of Abe’s protagonists have aimed in his fiction, but in one particularly successful play Abe examined the consequences of that outside world’s invasion of an individual’s private space. The play is, of course, “Tomodachi,” (fi rst staged in 1967 by the Seinen-za, direction by Narise Atsuhiko) and the differences between it and the earlier incarnation of its basic story, as contained within the novella “Chinnyûsha” (1952, “The Intruders”) demonstrate clearly the possible variations of emphasis and perspective between dramatic works and those for the page. The story of either version is simply told: one evening a family of strangers bursts in to the apartment of a fellow who enjoys his solitude. The family has come to save him from his loneliness. The man resists their forced companionship but is unable to remove the intruders from his apartment. In the end, he dies, a victim to their aggressive communality.
Timothy Iles
Fiancée
Tadej Pišek/Klemen Janežič
Fiancée’s brother
Katja Levstik/Andrej Nahtigal
Grandmother / Grandfather
Father
Mother
Elder son
Klemen Slakonja
Younger son
Eldest daughter
Middle daughter
Youngest daughter
Middle-aged policeman
Tadej Pišek/Klemen Janežič
Young policeman
Mateja Koležnik – Borštnik Award for Directing
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