At the tenth meeting with recipients of Borštnik's ring, we will host in the hall of the Slovenian Theater Institute (SLOGI) Silva Čusin, the recipient of the ring in 2007 and Binet Matoh, the recipient of the ring in 2004. The conversation will be led by Ana Perne. Free entry.
Silva Čušin, recipient of Borštnik's ring in 2007
That she "wanted to be this since she was little," says the actress in one conversation, who, according to critic Andrej Inkret, particularly stood out as grandmother Evgenija in the production of Mrožkov's Tango while studying drama at AGRFT, "a figure of surprisingly subtle comedy and perfectly dosed grotesque elements in it". In 1979, she received an award from the Stanet Sever Foundation for her role, for the role of Grandma-Evice in Strniševi Žaba, and for the performance, for which the students received the group university Prešeren award in 1980, she was awarded for the first time at the Borštnik meeting as a young actress.
After her studies, she mostly acted in the Experimental Theater Glej for four years, then she joined the acting ensemble of Ljubljana Drama, a theater company to which she remains loyal to this day. Already in 1986, she received the Severev Award again, namely for the roles of Ljubica in Jančar's Great Brilliant Waltz, Tantalla in Zajčev's Kalevala, Ivana in Girls and Half by Caryl Churchill and Jožefina in Kreft's Carniolan Comedians. The latter was followed by a role in Grum's Event in the city of Gogi under the direction of Meta Hočevar: according to Inkret, as Hana "with her terrible sexual wound, erotic aggressiveness and frigidity" she contributed to "a whole series of excellent acting characters". In 1987, she received the Steri award for acting creation for the role of Hana, and the following year she also received the Prešeren Fund award for her and the roles of Tantala and Ismene in Smolet's Antigone.
"Silva Čušin is an actress with a distinctly modern sensibility, which manifests itself in the extremely disciplined use of external means with extremely intense internal tension. A sophisticated analysis of dramatic characters, combined with a sovereign mastery of expressive means, enables her to create completely different female figures," they wrote in the justification of the award. She also created various female characters such as Hannah Jarvis in Stoppard's Arcadia and Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters, for which she received the Župančič Award in 1996.
At Borštnik's meeting, she was awarded again in 2005 for her role in the production of Marlow's Edward the Second, in which, according to the jury, she "carves a dark and powerful mural of the emotions, desires and thoughts of Queen Isabella". Two years in a row, she won the satire award at the Slovenian chamber theater festival SKUP in Ptuj: the first in 2008 together with Gregor Baković, a co-star in Friel's Poigra, the second a year later for Anne in Mamet's Boston Connection. In 2011, at the Comedy Days in Celje, she received the title of noble comedian as Mara Rozman Korošec in Tadl's Offer and Demand.
In addition to a series of outstanding theatrical creations, she created numerous radio, television and film roles; for the latter, she was also awarded several times. Except for rare exceptions, he does not perform outside the parent theater. The actress, who, as stated in the explanation of Borštnik's ring, "combines penetrating intelligence and emotional strength" and "who is driven both by the desire to re-create the character and by the simultaneous demand for intellectual distance", is characterized by a keen sense for ensemble play, as she sees " the meaning of theater is that the role is created on stage, in a relationship with others".
Bine Matoh, recipient of the Borštnik ring in 2004
Upon entering the theater wardrobe for the first time, the "smell of theater lipstick" remained with him forever. games on AGRFT. For the role of Toča in the graduate production of Strniševi Žab (1980), he received the award of the Stanet Sever Foundation, as well as the group university Prešeren award with his co-creators.
After his studies, he became a member of the Primorsky Drama Theater and remained loyal to the Novi Gori Theater until his recent retirement (in 2013). He confirmed his "undisputed acting talent" according to theater expert Vasje Predan with his first roles on the professional stage. For the title role in Molière's Don Juan, he was awarded a bronze rose in 1982 at the Goriška Small Stages Meeting, and in the same year he received his first Borštnik Award for another title role, this time in Kmecl's The Death of Levstik. In 1984, he also received the Prešeren Fund award for her and for his roles as Njego in Turrini's one-act play The Rat Hunt and Erigon in the play of the same name by Jordan Plevneš.
According to critic Andrej Inkret, Sanča Panso, the title character in Bulgakov's adaptation of Cervantes's Don Quixote, acted "with unparalleled energy and humor, enthusiasm and eloquence" in director Zvonet Šedlbauer's ambient production (1984). In Korun's performance of Ljudožercev (1987), according to the critic Jerne Novak, "with the sneaky, cat-like silent figure of a skilled butcher, with the natural flexibility of a cynic who mockingly turns his bloody craft into a smooth wordplay and with a voice raised to a height that betrays a deaf person, at the same time, he accurately captures the artistic sonority of Strniš's assonances, created in the early days of the ideal "horrible clown" by Petr Pajot. He received the Steri and Borštnik awards for it.
He played a number of other important roles on the former stage of the parent theater and then appeared as the Patriarch from Ogle in the staging of Smolet's Baptism at Savica, which was staged under the direction of Janez Pipan at the opening of the new theater building (1994). The following year, he created Hacker in Barker's Love of a Good Husband (directed by Bojan Jablanovec); "manipulator and dealer in cadavers," as Predan writes, he "designed with a witty, relaxed interweaving of temperament, casualness, comedy and at the same time a kind of irrational helplessness," for which he received the Borštnik Award.
The Stanet Sever Foundation awarded him the second prize in 1997 for the roles of Hildebrand in Mirko Zupančič's The Wizards and Shakespeare's Richard the Third, in which, as Inkret notes, there is "nothing conventionally diabolical"; it is "a wit, a challenger with charm, but with a mocking smile and sparkling eyes, at the same time strange, definitely intangible, suspicious, dangerous."
One of the representatives of the repertoire of the theater in Novorossiysk, as a guest actor he was successfully involved in other ensembles several times, but he was also active in the fields of radio, film and television. Already at the beginning of his career as an actor, he made Linhart's maxim "Let's give each other fire!" and confirmed, as written in the explanation of Borštnik's ring, that he "knows how to be an excellent partner".
