The Revolt
Premiere April 11, 1944 / One-act play / The very first performance 1st cast Director Jože Gale Črt Janez Pelko Janko Dušan Mevlja Father Marjan Marinc Mother Vida Levstik Matej Nace Simončič Ljerka Beba Černič 2nd cast Director Jože Tiran Črt Jože Gale Janko Jože Tiran Father Stane Česnik Mother Ema Starc Matej France Presetnik Ljerka Ivanka Mežan Scenographer Drago Vidmar Prompter Slavka Glavina

Three propaganda one-act plays: The Revolt, The Jail Opened and Three Broken Clocks, were written as commissioned pieces for the Partisan meetings. The Revolt and The Jail were performend by the course attendants as the closing production of the first theatre course, on the bases of which the decision was made as to who should stay on and receive further schooling and who should return to the army unit. Boris Kidrič wrote in a letter to Kumbatovič »performance instructions« for one-act plays: »I would suggest replacing the antithesis »landlord – shoemaker« with the antithesis »old anti-people's party politician– Liberation Front activist.« To bring in our popular sentiments and our democratic bent as compulsory attributes of our National Liberation struggle ... the empahsis is on the CP, but other patriotic forces must also be brought in ...«

Titlepage of the first edition of the script
Second page of the first edition of the script
Premiere April 11, 1944 / One-act play / The very first performance 1st cast Director Jože Gale Črt Janez Pelko Janko Dušan Mevlja Father Marjan Marinc Mother Vida Levstik Matej Nace Simončič Ljerka Beba Černič 2nd cast Director Jože Tiran Črt Jože Gale Janko Jože Tiran Father Stane Česnik Mother Ema Starc Matej France Presetnik Ljerka Ivanka Mežan Scenographer Drago Vidmar Prompter Slavka Glavina
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