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Lutz Hübner

Gretchen, page 89

Gretchen 89 ff.

Director Samo M. Strelec

Director Andrej Jus
Comedy
Openings September 2020

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Lutz Hübner (1964), a German playwright, director and actor is an internationally recognized and versatile theatre maker. In 1990s, he authored more than twenty plays that were staged to great acclaim in German theatres and internationally. Since 2001 he has been working closely with Sarah Nemitz. They have written more than twenty plays together. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards and is one of the most frequently staged contemporary German playwrights since 1990s. His work includes plays for adults and young audiences and opera librettos. In 2015, a film adaptation of Hübner and Nemitz's Frau Müller muss weg (2010) was released. The star-studded film was seen by more than one million viewers and received numerous awards. Hübner’s writing for theatre is distinguished by precise and rapidly paced dialogues. His understanding of language and dramatic situations clearly shows that he is a theatre practitioner who always writes with the actors in mind.
Hübner’s comedy Gretchen, page 89 premiered in 1997 and became a major hit in German and international theatres. The author used Gretchen’s famous monologue from Goethe's Faust after her meeting with Faust and restaged it in scenes rendered by two actors playing a set of directors, actresses and other professionals working in the theatre. Wittily, Hübner managed to present in an entertaining way what goes on behind the scenes in the theatre and what is not meant to be seen by the audience. The routine of the process of staging a play, normally reserved for theatre makers, generates a wealth of comic situations. By staging the monologue in different versions, Hübner discloses what goes on during the rehearsals, how the production slowly evolves and what is needed for it to be born. The author shows no restraint when it comes to the whims of main protagonists in the making of a production. Often, the creative process depends on the good mood of those involved and of the mundanity of life situations in which they find themselves, as well as on the level of patience, good will, affection, empathy, technical facilities and, of course, financial resources of the theatre. Sometimes the director gets up on the wrong side of the bed, the actress is convinced that she deserves more respect, the prop master does not arrange the right props, the up-and-coming director is seized by an unconquerable stage fright, while someone else does not like the play at all…
Hübner’s Gretchen, page 89 is a brilliant comedy addressing serious predicaments taking place behind-the-scenes in an amusing way.

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Translator Darko Čuden
Director Andrej Jus
Dramaturg Ana Obreza
Set Designer Urša Vidic
Costume Designer Andrej Vrhovnik 
Composer Polona Janežič 
Language Consultant Jože Volk
Lighting Designers Andrej Jus, Urša Vidic, Denis Kresnik

Cast
Branko Završan/Renato Jenček
Beti Strgar/Živa Selan
Urban Kuntarič/Luka Bokšan

Openings 16 and 18 September 2020

Performance duration: 1 hour and 25 minutes. No interval.

Stage manager and Prompter Zvezdana Kroflič Štrakl •  Lighting master Denis Kresnik •  Sound master Mitja Švener •  Property master Manja Vadla •  Front-of-house manager Branko PilkoMake-up artists Marjana Sumrak, Andreja Veselak Pavlič • Wardrobe masters Melita Trojar, Mojca Panič • Head of construction Gregor Prah • Assistant technical manager Rajnhold Jelen • Technical manager Miha Peperko

  • Urban Kuntarič, Beti Strgar, Branko Završan

  • Branko Završan, Beti Strgar

  • Branko Završan, Beti Strgar

  • Branko Završan

  • Urban Kuntarič

  • Beti Strgar, Urban Kuntarič

  • Beti Strgar, Branko Završan, Urban Kuntarič

  • Beti Strgar, Urban Kuntarič

  • Beti Strgar, Urban Kuntarič

  • Beti Strgar, Urban Kuntarič

  • Beti Strgar, Branko Završan

  • Beti Strgar

  • Živa Selan, Luka Bokšan

  • Luka Bokšan, Živa Selan

  • Beti Strgar, Branko Završan

  • Renato Jenček, Živa Selan

  • Živa Selan

  • Renato Jenček, Živa Selan

  • Luka Bokšan, Živa Selan

  • Luka Bokšan

  • Luka Bokšan, Živa Selan

  • Luka Bokšan, Živa Selan

  • Luka Bokšan, Živa Selan

  • Renato Jenček, Živa Selan

  • Živa Selan, Renato Jenček

  • Živa Selan, Renato Jenček

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