Professor Arnold Rubek, a sculptor, and his wife Maia have been together for some years, but don’t feel real affection towards each other. Theirs is a boring life which they try to energise with summer travels, this time, with a voyage along the coast. The professor once promised his wife that he would take her to the mountaintop so she could see the entire world in its beauty, but that has not happened. Their life is turned upside down when, while they’re waiting in the summer resort for their ship to leave, Maia meets an eccentric bear hunter and landowner Ulfheim and Rubek meets Irene, who for several years was the model for his masterpiece The Ressurection Day. During that time, Rubek and Irene became very close, but just before the sculpture was finished, Irene unexpectedly and inexplicably left him.

The classical piece by the giant of the world drama Henrik Ibsen digs through the pain of the unfulfilled life, unmet dreams, and unachieved emotional, creative and spiritual goals and ponders if perhaps we might be given a second chance once it seems to be too late for everything and we, while weighing different loves, perhaps made a wrong decision. The successful Bulgarian director Stiliyn Petrov, known for his specific poetics and the close attention he gives to actors’ work, will debut in Slovenia by putting this rarely produced play on the Nova Gorica stage.

In Slovenian with English and Bulgarian surtitles.

The guest performance is realized under the project “Theatre Bridges in Southeast Europe”, funded by the program “Presentation to the Bulgarian audience of contemporary European productions from the CCI sector” through the National Culture Fund under the EU Recovery and Sustainability Mechanism.