A Behanding in Spokane

Slovene People’s Theatre Celje

Running time 1 hour and 20 minutes. No interval.
Première: 14 March 2012, Oderpododrom, Slovene People’s Theatre Celje
First Slovene production

Translation Jakob Jaša Kenda
Director and music designer Matjaž Latin
Dramaturg Tatjana Doma
Stage designer Branko Hojnik
Costume designer Maja Ballund
Language consultant Simon Šerbinek
Props design and manufacture Gregor Lorenci

Cast
Carmichael Bojan Umek
Mervyn Tarek Rashid
Marilyn Minca Lorenci
Toby Andrej Murenc

The dangerous Carmichael, petty thieves Marilyn and Toby who want to sell him his cut-off palm, and the weird receptionist Mervyn meet in a squalid American motel in the middle of nowhere. Those four "bad guys”, each with a soft spot, begin revealing their odd secrets in the motel room. The action pulls us onto a violent merry-go-round of hatred, vengeance, desperation and hope, interlacing truth and lie … McDonagh enthrals us with his brilliant dialogues that are the intertwinement of sharp, politically incorrect, vulgar, and black humour. Cut-off extremities, a sensitive bully, frightened dealers tied to the radiator, a suitcase with disgusting content, a monkey lover, a dangerous philosophy-inclined receptionist, and much more in this brutally funny thriller.