“You’re as beautiful as a flower, as tall as a fir, as comely as an oak; a lad is sat within your thievish eyes, shooting down upon me. Alas, a fancy does this strike with ye?”
With Županova Micka (‘The Mayor’s Micka’), based on the then-popular Viennese comedy Die Feldmühle (‘The Paper Mill’), Anton Tomaž Linhart caused a mini cultural and social revolution on Ljubljana’s main theatre stage in 1789, at a time when Europe was still shocked from the fallout of the French revolution. Until then, theatre was reserved for the German and Italian spoken word. Linhart and his group of learned friends staged a comedy in Slovene and showed, fuelled by new democratic and free-spirit tendencies, how Slovene can more than hold its own on stage, and how the people of Carniola deserve to enjoy art in their mother tongue. Most of all, however, Linhart showed he had much to tell on stage.
The comedy premiered on 22 September 2017 at Mala drama.
Cast:
- Klemen Slakonja
- Saša Pavlin Stošić
- Rok Kravanja
- Uroš Fürst
- Nina Valič
- Klemen Janežič
- Janez Škof
Directed by: Luka Martin Škof
Dramaturgy and adaptation: Arko
Set design: Miha Horvat sonda4
Costume design: Urška Recer
Sound and music mixing: Ivan Mijačević
Stage lighting: Vlado Glavan, Luka Martin Škof, Miha Horvat sonda4
Drama SNG Ljubljana
