The performance lasts 90 minutes with no interval.
The theatre section of KUD Markovski zvon has been active within the society for seven years now. In these years we have staged the comedy Županova Micka (2019), the photo story Žive jaslice (2020), the comedies Korenčkovi (2021), Poštar Jakec and Sneguljčica in poštar (2022), Poljub za slovo (2023) and Iz zadrege v zadrego (2024). The section also contributes short dramatic or recitation pieces to various projects of the society. This theatre season we present to you The Three Village Saints, a comedy in three acts by Max Neal and Max Ferner.
THE THREE VILLAGE SAINTS is a merry play – a comedy or farce – from our past (around 1900), yet it draws strong parallels with the present day, which is marked by a lack of moral values and honesty. Through the play we follow the corruption and hypocrisy of people in power who have founded a Society for the Protection of Virtue and Morality, even though they carry the dark stain of adultery from their youth. The story begins to unfold when love letters come to light that incriminate three municipal dignitaries – councillor Peter Bavdek, Blaž Šimenc, who, incidentally, has a pretty daughter of marriageable age,
Marjanca, and mayor Šimen Porenta. They soon discover that they are in deep trouble, which hits mayor Šimen hardest of all; at his side are his calculating, unyielding and self-assured wife Urša and his simple but headstrong daughter Meta, who is in love with the village teacher Tine. Her parents certainly do not want him as a son-in-law, but the teacher holds all the cards – the letters that decisively shape the outcome of the whole “story”.
