Matej Bor: A Heavy Hour
Premiere July 13, 1944 / The very first performance / January 12, 1945 premiere with the second cast Director, dramaturge and scenographer Filip Kalan Kumbatovič Author of music Ciril Cvetko 1st cast Dr. Jeriša, doctor Milan Košak Saša, his elder son, professor Dušan Mevlja Matjaž, his younger son, student Jože Tiran Manja, student Vladoša Simčič Rado, worker Vinko Turk Sir Matoh Nace Simončič Police agent Slavko Tiran Detective Jože Bon 2nd cast Dr. Jeriša Jože Gale Saša Stane Česnik Matjaž Jože Tiran Manja Ivanka Mežan Rado France Presetnik Sir Matoh Franjo Kumer Police agent Dušan Mevlja Detective Nace Simončič Stage manager Draga Ahačič Prompter Majda Dobovišek

The dress rehersal for the performance of Heavy Hour took place before the performance of King on Betanjova, but it was a total washout. Matej Bor had to rework it. It was indeed a daring venture, since it was an attempt to stage the so-called literary drama in a Partisan environment. Filip Kalan asked Ciril Cvetko to provide musical accompaniment between individual scenes. This gave the play a certain grave intimacy. It was repeated twelve times and performed by two casts. In the first cast, the leading roles were played by Tiran, Košak and Mevlja, and in the second one Gale and Česnik played alongside Tiran. The female role was acted alternatively by Simčič and Mežan.

Scene from one-act play, Vinko Turk in the role of Rado, Jože Tiran in the role of Matjaž
Scene from one-act play, Vinko Turk in the role of Rado, Dušan Mevlja in the role of Sašo, Jože Tiran in the role of Matjaž, Vladoša Simčič in the role of Manja, Milan Košak in the role of Jeriša
Scene from one-act play, Jože Gale in the role of Jeriša, France Presetnik in the role of Rade, Jože Tiran in the role of Matjaž
Scene from one-act play, Dušan Mevlja in the role of Sašo, Vladoša Simčič in the role of Manja, Jože Tiran in the role of Matjaž, Milan Košak in the role of Jeriša
Franjo Kumer, Jože Gale nad Stane Česnik in make-up room
Collaborators with the production, Vinko Turk, Filip Kumbatovič Kalan, Dušan Mevlja, Urban Horvat, Draga Ahačič, Jože Tiran, Slavko Tiran, Vladoša Simčič, Nace Simončič, Milan Košak, Majda Dobovišek
The script of director Filip Kumbatovič Kalan with sketches of individual scenes and instructions for the actors
Review of the performance from Slovenski poročevalec

Vladoša Simčič

on rehersals for A Heavy Hour, which included a critique of the author’s text
An excerpt from the sound recording of the radio play A Heavy Hour, with Matej Bor speaking

Urban Horvat

Cinema operator and technician of the SNT

An excerpt from the TV performance Theatre amidst the Rifles (Time that Lives), directed by Helena Koder, produced by RTV Slovenija, 1977

Premiere July 13, 1944 / The very first performance / January 12, 1945 premiere with the second cast Director, dramaturge and scenographer Filip Kalan Kumbatovič Author of music Ciril Cvetko 1st cast Dr. Jeriša, doctor Milan Košak Saša, his elder son, professor Dušan Mevlja Matjaž, his younger son, student Jože Tiran Manja, student Vladoša Simčič Rado, worker Vinko Turk Sir Matoh Nace Simončič Police agent Slavko Tiran Detective Jože Bon 2nd cast Dr. Jeriša Jože Gale Saša Stane Česnik Matjaž Jože Tiran Manja Ivanka Mežan Rado France Presetnik Sir Matoh Franjo Kumer Police agent Dušan Mevlja Detective Nace Simončič Stage manager Draga Ahačič Prompter Majda Dobovišek
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