Chronicle of the staging of a certain king: Lear's transformations

Shakespeare's King Lear was first staged on Slovenian stages in 1936, although Anton Funtek had translated the "tragedy in five acts" into Slovenian more than three decades earlier; the tragedy, considered one of the Bard's most demanding works, was pioneered by director Ciril Debevec at the Drama Theatre in Ljubljana. Later, the five-act play returned to our stages at intervals of a good decade – until the turn of the millennium, when Lear began to appear more frequently in theater repertoires. 

How did Shakespeare's king appeal to contemporary artists, and what transformations did he undergo in Slovenian stage productions? These and similar questions will be addressed in a historical overview of theatrical encounters with the play about the collapse of the world, prepared by theatrologue and curator Ana Perne.

You can get free tickets at drama.kupikarto.si or at the SNT Drama box offices.