Miroslav Krleža
The Noble Glembays
Photo: Peter Uhan
Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana
Original title: Gospoda Glembajevi
Running time 4 hours and 10 minutes. Two intervals.
Première: 31 March 2012, Main Stage, Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana
Translator Andrej Inkret
Director Ivica Buljan
Assistant director Robert Waltl
Dramaturg Mojca Kranjc
Set designer Dalibor Martinis
Costume designer Ana Savić Gecan
Composer Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
Choreographer Tanja Zgonc
Language consultant Tatjana Stanič
German language consultant Vanda Vremšak Richter
Lighting designer Milan Podlogar
Assistant director – student Tjaša Črnigoj
Assistant dramaturg – student Nina Šorak
Cast
Naci (Ignjat, Jacques) Glembay, banker Ivo Ban
The Baroness Castelli-Glembay, his second legal wife Nataša Barbara Gračner
Leone Glembay, PhD, Ignjat’s son by his first wife Marko Mandić
Sister Angelika Glembay, a Dominican nun, widow of Glembay’s son Ivan Tina Vrbnjak
Titus Andronicus Fabriczy-Glembay, cousin of Naci Glembay Matjaž Tribušon
Puba Fabriczy-Glembay, his son, a lawyer Aljaž Jovanović
Dr. med. Paul Altmann, a doctor of medicine Jose as guest
The Rev. Alojzij Silberbrandt, PhD, confessor to the Baroness and adviser to her son Uroš Fürst
Oliver Glembay, son of the Baroness Castelli and Naci Glembay Jernej Gašperin student
Lieutenant von Ballocsanszky, a cavalry officer Benjamin Krnetić student
Futurists Ditka Haberl as guest, Tina Vrbnjak, Jernej Gašperin student, Benjamin Krnetić student
Miroslav Krleža’s play The Noble Glembays takes place on a summer night, a year before World War I, at a time in which the economic and social success of the Glembay family has reached its peak. In spite of all the luxury and cosmopolitanism that abound in the life of the Glembays, an instant, an accident unwillingly caused by the Baroness Castelli-Glembay, is enough to reveal the truth … The Noble Glembays demonstrates with an outstanding sharpness, theatrical power and sensitive criticism what happens when tycoons meet their fate. This extraordinarily relevant staging depicts the downfall of a social system which was the identification point for various generations throughout history.