Pavla Jesih was the inspiration for Matjaž Pograjec's latest play, in which the director also dressed his artistic colleagues in gojzarjes.
Pavla Jesih was the inspiration for the latest show Matjaža Pograjac. For the performance, the director had his artistic collaborators wear boots and the stage was partly mistaken for mountains. When we talk about Pavli Jesih, the mountains are definitely the most suitable place for storytelling, because for her they were the world where she felt independence. The alpinist, who has strung together many championship routes, was also at home in the business world, but she was always driven by the desire for the unknown, and she worked independently. Before the war, she and Mira Marko Debeljak were the first and only ladies of Slovenian as well as European alpinism. Pavla Jesih climbed mainly with male co-climbers, including Miho Potočnik, Danilo Martelan, Stanko Tominško and Jožo Čopa. In 1933, she was injured in a serious accident in Velika Mojstrovka, after which she switched to cinema and already before the Second World War expanded the network of cinemas from Celje, Ptuj to Ljubljana. So she didn't climb for a while, but right after the Second World War, she and Jožo Čop attacked the central Triglav column (today's Čop's column). "It was the most difficult climb of the entire generation between the two world wars, the crown of the entire period, an expression of will, more precisely fanaticism, because they climbed it after not climbing for several years," they wrote at the presentation of the performance. Although it was not agreed upon, the course was named Čop's pillar, because "the pre-war bourgeois woman did not fit the model of the new man, the ironworker and simple man Čop seemed much more suitable." Everything and more could be written about Pavla Jesi, but more should be said about the play by Matjaž Pograjec, for which the dramatic text was created by the translator, playwright and novelist Andrej E. Skubic. Maruša Oblak, Katarina Stegnar, Barbara Ribnikar, Primož Bezjak, Uroš Kaurin, Boris Kos and Blaž Šef play the main roles in the play. Looking forward to a very interesting show.
