After the premiere at this year's Salzburg Summer Festival, the staging of "Alamut", a landmark 1938 novel in which Slovenian author Vladimir Bartol portrayed radical Islam, premiered before the home audience at the Ljubljana National Drama Theatre on Saturday.
This co-production of the Salzburg Festival and the Ljubljana Drama SNG premiered in Salzburg on 28 July, bringing the director Sebastijan Horvat the Best Young Director Award worth EUR 10,000 and a Max Reinhard pen worth EUR 12,000.
At Thursday's press conference, the artistic director of the Ljubljana Drama SNG Janez Pipan described the staging of Alamut as one of the most determined Slovenian theatre descends into reality, as a "radical disillusion".
Horvat put issues like politics, philosophy and manipulation to the forefront of his play. He exposes the main character Ibn Tahiri as an intelligent and honest young man who doubts and questions, but at the same time falls under the influence of different ideologies - very much like modern man.
Dusan Jovanovic, who adapted the novel into a script, said the play does not present terrorism in black and white like most media do. It features several leading Slovenian actors, such as Igor Samobor, Radko Polic, Marko Mandic, Petra Govc, Jurij Zrnec, Uros Fuerst, Zvone Hribar and Gorazd Logar.
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