Slovensko narodno gledališče Nova Gorica
Barufe; photo SNG Nova Gorica / Peter Uhan

Carlo Goldoni – Predrag Lucić

Squabbles

Istarske barufe

A comedy

on programme

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duration 2 hours and 15 minutes with interval

co-production

Gledališče Koper, Slovensko stalno gledališče Trst, Istarsko narodno kazalište – Gradsko kazalište Pula

premiere

23. September 2017, SNG Nova Gorica

At partner theatres 20. October 2017, Gledališče Koper; 18. November 2017, Istarsko narodno kazalište – Gradsko kazalište Pula; 1. December 2017, Slovensko stalno gledališče Trst

about text

In a lively fishing town on the coast of the Austro-Hungarian Istria we encounter a “noisy group of fishermen, sailors and women, whose only place to carry on a conversation is the street.” Similar to the Chioggia of Goldoni’s youth, where “as a court clerk’s assistant /.../ he learnt about the townsfolk and their customs, their language, their liveliness and their characteristic malice” and used his impression of them to write Le baruffe chiozzotte (1762, Squabbles in Chiogga).

Cotton candy, a little tobacco and a talent for defiance ... and in front of us is Predrag Lucič’s adaptation of the “fateful” neighbourly dispute that lashes like the wind until it drops and soughs into a truce. But this truce doesn’t last long. “The problems of fishery squabbles or baruffe is of course a pertinent one,” says director Vito Taufer, who nevertheless doesn’t want to interpret them as “a daily political satire, but they will be a metaphor of today’s multiethnic and multicultural world. We’ll show how the authorities use the little man, a fisherman pushed to the margin, and manipulate him like a peon on the political chessboard. All the local fishy businesses and baruffe serve politicians who open this drawer when it serves them.”

One of Goldoni’s loveliest and most popular comedies, which long ago claimed its home on our side of the Adriatic, its transplantation from the Venetian laguna to the Istrian peninsula has now encouraged a coproduction that links four professional littoral theatres from three countries. The performance of the story of the squabbles, which serves as a reflection for the querulous present, can – thanks to its multilingual playfulness – rise to a new level of understanding.

Imbued with a Mediterranean temperament, this play of Babylonian linguistic diversity was directed by Vito Taufer, a director of many exceptional performances in Slovenian and international theatres. His numerous performances have been staged in littoral theatres, some even as premières at the Summer Festival of the Littoral or as guest performances there.

Open-air premières 21 June 2017 in Koper (Martinčev trg), 23 June in Pula (the courtyard of the Historical and Maritime Museum of Istria), 25 June 2017 in Nova Gorica (Kromberk Castle amphitheatre) 

awards

  • Uprizoritev Barufe - tantadruj za gledališki dosežek 2017/2018
  • Marjuta Slamič - tantadruj za igralsko stvaritev 2017/2018, med drugim tudi za vlogo Paškue
  • Uprizoritev Barufe - nagrada Primorskega dnevnika 2018 za umetniški presežek iztekajoče sezone, 2018
  • Uprizoritev Barufe - velika nagrada Večernjega lista za najboljšo predstavo v celoti,  Festival 42. Dnevi satire Fadila Hadžića, Zagreb, Hrvaška, 2018
  • Kristijan Guček -igralska nagrada za vlogo Đovanina, Festival 42. Dnevi satire Fadila Hadžića, Zagreb, Hrvaška, 2018
  • Uprizoritev Barufe - nagrada za najboljšo predstavo, 5. festival Novi tvrđava Teatar, Novi Sad, Srbija, 2018

festivals and performances abroad

  • 24. Primorski poletni festival, 2017
  • Festival 42. dnevi satire Fadila Hadžića, ZKM, Zagreb, Hrvaška, 2018
  • 25. Primorski poletni festival, 2018
  • 5. festival Novi tvrđava Teatar, Novi Sad, Srbija, 2018
  • festival Grad teatar, Budva, Črna gora, 2018
  • 63. Splitsko poletje, Split, Hrvaška, 2018
  • Zadrsko gledališko poletje, Zadar, Hrvaška, 2018
  • HNK Ivana pl. Zajca Rijeka, Hrvaška, 2018
  • 26. Primorski poletni festival, Izola, 2019
  • 14. Festival mediteranskog teatra Purgatorije, Tivat, Crna gora, 2019

 

View complete schedule for the show

  • 21. 06. 2017 at 21.00. Martinčev trg, Koper
  • 23. 06. 2017 at 21.00. Zgodovinski in pomorski muzej Istre, Pula, Hrvatska
  • 25. 06. 2017 at 21.00. Amfiteater gradu Kromberk
  • 21. 09. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • canceled
  • 22. 09. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • canceled
  • 23. 09. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 27. 09. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 28. 09. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 29. 09. 2017 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 16. 10. 2017 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 17. 10. 2017 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 18. 10. 2017 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 19. 10. 2017 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 20. 10. 2017 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 21. 10. 2017 at 20.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 16. 11. 2017 at 20.00. Istarsko narodno kazalište - Gradsko kazalište Pula
  • 17. 11. 2017 at 20.00. Istarsko narodno kazalište - Gradsko kazalište Pula
  • 18. 11. 2017 at 20.00. Istarsko narodno kazalište - Gradsko kazalište Pula
  • 01. 12. 2017 at 20.30. SSG Trst
  • 02. 12. 2017 at 20.30. SSG Trst
  • 03. 12. 2017 at 16.00. SSG Trst
  • 14. 12. 2017 at 20.30. SSG Trst
  • 15. 12. 2017 at 20.30. SSG Trst
  • 16. 12. 2017 at 19.00. SSG Trst
  • 18. 12. 2017 at 20.30. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 24. 05. 2018 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 25. 05. 2018 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 26. 05. 2018 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 18. 06. 2018 at 20.00. Festival 42. dani satire Fadila Hadžića, Zagreb, Hrvatska
  • 21. 06. 2018 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 30. 06. 2018 at 21.30. 25. Primorski poletni festival, Izola
  • 01. 07. 2018 at 21.30. 25. Primorski poletni festival, Izola
  • 03. 07. 2018 at 21.00. Festival Novi tvrđava Teatar Novi Sad, Srbija
  • 13. 07. 2018 at 21.00. Festival Grad teatar Budva, Črna gora
  • 15. 07. 2018 at 21.00. 63. Splitsko poletje, Split, Hrvaška
  • 17. 07. 2018 at 21.30. Zadrsko gledališko poletje, Zadar, Hrvaška
  • 10. 12. 2018 at 18.00. Gledališče Koper
  • 12. 12. 2018 at 19.30. HNK Ivana pl. Zajca Rijeka, Hrvaška
  • 29. 12. 2018 at 20.00. Cankarjev dom Ljubljana
  • 30. 12. 2018 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 18. 06. 2019 at 21.30. Park Arrigoni, Izola, 26. Primorski poletni festival
  • 22. 06. 2019 at 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica
  • 09. 07. 2019 at 21.30. 14. Festival mediteranskog teatra Purgatorije 2019, Tivat, Crna Gora
  • 08. 11. 2020 at 23.57. Web