"Pasijon ima zdravilno moč!" protislovja Škofjeloškega pasijona
"The passion play has a healing power!" : the controversies of the Škofja Loka Passion play

english
slovenian

2020

volume 8, issue 1

community theatre   controversies   passion play   re-enactment   secular society   theatre community

Slovenski gledališki inštitut (SLOGI)
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

This paper explains how the modern staging or re-enactment of Škofjeloški pasijon (Eng. Škofja Loka Passion Play or, Latin, Processio locopolitana ) constructs distinct controversies: (a) between amateurism and professionalism; (b) between play and performance; (c) between theatre and community; (d) between history and the present; and (e) between epistemology and faith. Around 1715, Father Romuald (1676-1748), a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, wrote a script for a passion play, the oldest preserved dramatic text written in the Slovenian language and the oldest preserved Regiebuch, a script with stage directions, in Europe. The passion play was performed during Lent until 1768 in the form of a penitential passion play procession. After Slovenia's political system changed in 1991, interest in the passion play revived, but since there have only been a few performances, in 1999, 2000, 2009 and 2015. The performance of the passion play is deeply affected by collective amateurism and the construction of a distinct passion play theatre community. Even if the future productions of the Škofja Loka Passion Play will eventually develop to a higher professional level, the Škofja Loka Passion Play will always remain a communal theatre that demands a theatre community with Medieval cultural elements in a modern secular society.

15.07.2020