The best playwrights are always relevant. For Ivan Cankar, the creators of the show even claim that he has never been more relevant than he is today. His somewhat lesser-known drama Jakob Ruda was staged by Sebastijan Horvat, a director who in recent years has been quite a part of the representative...
The best playwrights are always relevant. For Ivan Cankar, the creators of the show even claim that he has never been more relevant than he is today. His somewhat lesser-known drama Jakob Ruda was staged by Sebastijan Horvat, a director who in recent years has brought quite a few works of the representative of Slovenian modernity closer to the modern audience. This time he tackled the story of to a factory owner who is financially bankrupt and tries to dig himself out of financial distress in an ethically questionable way. In order to save his property, he sacrifices the happiness and freedom of his daughter, which causes him moral dilemmas and an ever more burning voice of conscience...
