Three Elizabethan Tragedies. State::R.III. - Epilogue
Delak Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
Première: 3. 2. 2013 Museum of Contemporary Arts Metelkova
Running time 1 hour and 30 minutes without an interval.
Director Dragan Živadinov
Set designers Dunja Zupančič, Miha Turšič
Costume designer Dunja Zupančič
Author of digital constructions Miha Turšič
Dramaturg Mojca Kumerdej
Language consultant Tatjana Stanič
Composer Dario Seraval
Lighting designer Sašo Arizanovič
Choreographer Vladimir Bassara
Cast
Queen Margot Jožica Avbelj
Translator Gorka Berden
Lady Anne Barbara Cerar
Lady H. Arna Hadžialjević
Lady Isabell Maruša Majer
D.G. Mateja Rebolj
King Richard III. Lotos Vincenc Šparovec
Queen Elizabeth Tjaša Železnik
State::R.III. is the epilogue of Three Elizabethan Tragedies of the postmodern dramatist Vladimir Stojsavljević. In his three tragedies written in the 1980s he dealt with the early, high and late theatre of the Renaissance and the position of woman in its frame, while it was still forbidden for women to perform onstage. The Prologue of Elizabethan Tragedies was based on the book by Mile Korun, To Be With the Play, while in the Epilogue we are witnessing the deconstruction of female question in the frame of the magnificent Modernist experience of the 20th century and male fantasies of Richard III. The text of the Epilogue uses the Postmodernist quotation method and deals with Postmodernism as a past stylistic formation. The authors of quoted texts are V. Stojsavljević, W. Shakespeare, N. Chaurette, K. Theweleit, F. Pessoa, M. Kirby, R. Foreman, D. Ugrešić, M. Kumerdej, D. Živadinov, V. Hlebnikov, K. Maljevič, A. Artaud.