Three Broken Clocks
Premiere April 11, 1944 / One-act play / The very first performance

Director Milan Košak
Scenographer Drago Vidmar

Hrast, former district secretary Stane Česnik
Lipan, salesman from Zelena vas France Presetnik
Gorjanec, landowner and former mayor Lojze Potokar
Kobe, shoemaker Milan Košak
Jurček, his son Istok Tusulin
Partisan Avgust Anderluh

Prompter Ema Starc

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 ...«

Script in cyclostyle – titlepage
Script in cyclostyle – second page
Premiere April 11, 1944 / One-act play / The very first performance Director Milan Košak Scenographer Drago Vidmar Hrast, former district secretary Stane Česnik Lipan, salesman from Zelena vas France Presetnik Gorjanec, landowner and former mayor Lojze Potokar Kobe, shoemaker Milan Košak Jurček, his son Istok Tusulin Partisan Avgust Anderluh Prompter Ema Starc
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