He Who Fares Alone Through the World Till Evening (Simon Gregorčič)

Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica

Running time 1 hour and 20 minutes. No interval.
Première: 15 September 2011, Big Stage, Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica
First staging

Director Neda R. Bric
Composer Aldo Kumar
Dramaturg Martina Mrhar
Language consultant Srečko Fišer
Videos Polona Zupan
Set designers Rene Rusjan and Boštjan Potokar
Costume designer Tanja Zorn Grželj
Lighting designer Samo Oblokar
Video of the river Soča Marko Krašovec (Cebram)

Film crew
Set designer Aleksander Blažica
Director of photography Aljoša Korenčan
Camera assistant Jan Perovšek
Lighting master Damjan Žumer
Sound design and recording Boštjan Kačičnik
Technical support AAtalanta

Cast:
Simon Gregorčič Peter Harl, Blaž Valič, Ivo Barišič
Dragojila Milekova Vesna Vončina
Gregorčič’s mother Dušanka Ristić
Fran Erjavec Gorazd Jakomini
Woman Marjuta Slamič
Her brother, the Priest Matej Puc as guest

A biographic play on the Nightingale of Gorica who yearned and poured his heart into poems over a hundred years ago, He Who Fares Alone … is a story of the rises and falls of a deeply contemplative and deeply emotional man who felt for everything that surrounded him. The life path of a poet, unusually soul-stirring for a priest, reflects the spirit of the time in which the desire is born for national unity and the struggle for survival of the Slovenian language. Constant creative crisis and depressions caused the ever-deteriorating health condition, which eventually brought to his death. And like a sunray, all this is radiated with the unfulfilled yet never forgotten feelings for a girl, which brought to daylight the most wonderful love poems.