
Theater
SNG Nova Gorica
115 minutes
director Janusz Kica
translator into Italian Patrizia Raveggi
dramaturg Martina Mrhar
language consultant Anja Pišot
set designer Karin Fritz
costume designer Bjanka Adžić Ursulov
composer Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
light designer Marko Vrkljan
sound designer Gašper Torkar
assistant to director Jure Srdinšek
assistant to set designer Katarina Prislan
with
Radoš Bolčina (Giuseppe Materazzi / Marjan Ramovš)
Francesco Borchi k.g. (Roberto Materazzi)
Urška Taufer (Anna Vieri / Ivana Župančič)
Aleš Valič k.g. (Stane Ramovš)
Vesna Pernarčič k.g. / Helena Peršuh (Metka Ramovš)
Matic Valič k.g. (Lovro Ramovš)
Lara Fortuna (Mateja Ramovš)
Gorazd Jakomini (Franc Žnidaršič, born Vatovec)
production SNG Nova Gorica
co-production GO! 2025
The project is part of the official programme GO! 2025
“V iskanju izgubljenega jezika (In Search of a Lost Language) is a tale of unreliability of memory. The memory that is deserting us, the memory that is deceiving us, the memory that is dividing us. This is a tale of the bygone and the today, of the past that never managed to become the past and of the present, stifled by the past.”
Goran Vojnović
The tale of two brothers who went their separate ways as youths and now live each on one side of the Slovenian-Italian border. The first one was a committed fascist, and the second was a member of the partisan movement and held an office in the Yugoslav administration. The story begins when the first one has a stroke and he starts speaking in the language of his childhood, which his son doesn’t understand, and the only person who can help is the housekeeper who realises his desire to meet his brother. For both brothers and their nearest, this is an exciting confrontation with their past and themselves.
Second part of the trilogy Inabili alla morte/Nezmožni umreti
Performed in Slovenian with Italian surtitles