"All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." With this infamous phrase, the novel Anna Karenina by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy begins, which will be premiered on the stage of Ljubljana Drama on January 6, directed and dramatized by Dušan Jovanović. .
The great love story of the 19th century written by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy has undergone numerous stage and film adaptations since its creation in 1878. January 6 at 8 p.m we will be able to see it for the first time in the Ljubljana Drama in the version he imagined Dušan Jovanović.
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Anna Karenina is a story of great love that collides with the barriers that we humans have set up in society. A refined noblewoman, a caring mother and a faithful wife are the three roles that the main character should play for the rest of her life, according to all the written and unwritten laws of Russian society of the 19th century. However, because she is overcome by passion, she must pay for her transgression by excommunication and the loss of her rights to her son, which pushes her into an accident from which she sees no other way out than death.
She will perform in the role of Ana Half soup, in the role of her husband Matjaž Tribušon. Valter Dragan, Črt Veselko, Maksim Kajtimar Rozman, Iva Babić, Zvezdana Mlakar, Maja Sever, Klemen Janežič, Barbara Žefran, Gorazd Logar, Zvone Hribar and Matija Rozman will appear in other roles.
The eternal love story is relevant even today due to questions of morality and societal pressure, and the play is especially important for this year's high school graduates, as Anna Karenina is required reading for the Slovene graduation exam. For them and for everyone else who is interested in the placement of the novel in Tolstoy's oeuvre, the psychological portrait of the main character and the dramatization of such a great work as Anna Karenina, two days after the premiere (Friday, January 8, at 8:30 p.m.) it will take place on the Great Stage in cooperation with the association of Slavic studies students of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, Filoslav odvil literary evening. A conversation between the director Dušan Jovanović, Professor Miho Javornik from the Faculty of Arts and other creators of the show will be led by Darja Dominkuš.
More information:
www.drama.si
