Slovensko narodno gledališče Nova Gorica
Anja Drnovšek, Nataša Tič Ralijan, Lara Jankovič, Helena Peršuh, Maja Nemec; photo SNG Nova Gorica/Jaka Varmuž

Robert Harling

Steel Magnolias

Steel Magnolias

A comic melodrama

on programme

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duration 1 hour and 40 minutes without interval

co-production

Gledališče Koper

Performing

premiere

09. February 2017, SNG Nova Gorica

At partner theatre 4. November 2016, Gledališče Koper

about text

The entire story is set in a small-town hairdressing salon, where women reveal their emotions and disclose their inner worlds while having their looks polished. The events in the salon, “where no man has tread before”, focus on the final two-and-a-half years in the life of the young Emma, but her story – her striving for motherhood, her illness, her decision to get pregnant despite it and the subsequent deterioration of her health – doesn’t happen on the stage. We only see the peripheral events, we hear the salon visitors’ reactions to the watershed moments in Emma’s life and the lives of the people around her. Women intercept the outside events, react to them and, in seemingly casual chatter, disclose complex emotions and their intimate fights with more or less fateful problems.
The oxymoronic title Steel Magnolias conceals a comic melodrama about six women who, each in her own way, solve their problems and prove that they’re often stronger than men. Steel Magnolias premièred in 1987 in New York, two years later its author Robert Harling also penned a screenplay with the roles for six movie stars. Ira Ratej has taken the text that confronts us with small lives in a semirural town, adapted it and placed it into our environment and time. So the text that won the hearts of the audience even at its first staging in Ljubljana City Theatre in 2005 has become, directed by Katja Pegan, a new melodramatic hit.

festivals and performances abroad

  • Narodno pozorište Sombor, Srbija, 2017
  • Novosadsko pozorište, Srbija, 2017
  • HNK Zadar, Hrvaška, 2018

View complete schedule for the show

  • 26. 10. 2016 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 27. 10. 2016 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 04. 11. 2016 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 05. 11. 2016 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 14. 11. 2016 at 19.00. Kulturni dom Šmarje pri Jelšah
  • 16. 11. 2016 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 18. 11. 2016 at 20.00. Kulturni center Izola
  • 14. 12. 2016 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 26. 01. 2017 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 09. 02. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 12. 02. 2017 at 17.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 17. 02. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 22. 02. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 23. 02. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 04. 03. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • canceled
  • 08. 03. 2017 at 20.00. Cankarjev dom Ljubljana
  • 09. 03. 2017 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 24. 03. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 26. 03. 2017 at 20.00. Narodno pozorište Sombor, Srbija
  • 27. 03. 2017 at 19.00. Novosadsko pozorište, Srbija
  • 27. 05. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 08. 11. 2017 at 19.30. KC Primoža Trubarja Šentjernej
  • canceled
  • 21. 12. 2017 at 19.30. Kulturni dom Medvode
  • 23. 01. 2018 at 19.30. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • canceled
  • 24. 01. 2018 at 19.30. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • canceled
  • 25. 01. 2018 at 19.30. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • 26. 01. 2018 at 19.30. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • canceled
  • 27. 01. 2018 at 19.30. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • canceled
  • 03. 02. 2018 at 19.30. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • 05. 02. 2018 at 19.30. Cankarjev dom Vrhnika
  • 07. 02. 2018 at 20.00. HNK Zadar, Hrvatska
  • 09. 02. 2018 at 19.30. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • 16. 02. 2018 at 19.30. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • 22. 02. 2018 at 19.30. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • canceled
  • 02. 03. 2018 at 20.00. Kinogledališče Tolmin
  • 05. 03. 2018 at 20.00. Kulturni dom Franca Bernika Domžale
  • 06. 03. 2018 at 20.00. Kulturni dom Franca Bernika Domžale
  • 07. 03. 2018 at 20.00. Kulturni dom Franca Bernika Domžale
  • 08. 03. 2018 at 20.00. Kulturni dom Franca Bernika Domžale
  • 16. 03. 2018 at 19.30. Loški oder Škofja Loka
  • 17. 03. 2018 at 19.30. Loški oder Škofja Loka
  • 19. 03. 2018 at 20.00. Kosovelov dom Sežana
  • 23. 03. 2018 at 19.30. Kulturni dom Slovenj Gradec
  • 06. 06. 2018 at 20.00. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • 08. 06. 2018 at 20.00. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • 09. 06. 2018 at 20.00. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • 11. 06. 2018 at 20.00. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • 12. 06. 2018 at 20.00. Prešernovo gledališče Kranj
  • 21. 11. 2018 at 19.30. KC Delavski dom Zagorje ob Savi
  • 24. 11. 2018 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 28. 11. 2018 at 20.00. Pula, Hrvaška
  • canceled
  • 08. 12. 2018 at 20.00. Kamerni teatar 55, Sarajevo, Bosna in Hercegovina
  • 21. 12. 2018 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper