The occasion for the exhibition is the publication of the author's dramatic texts on our website:
Brother Sokol, Gypsies, From the ninth land, Where there is love, there is God, Volkashin and Krpan the younger.
The writer Fran Milčinski was a lawyer by profession, but in his free time he devoted himself to writing. He also became involved in the organization and management of Slovenian theater very early on. In 1899 he became a member of the Ljubljana theater management. During this period he was also the secretary of the Dramatic Society.
In line with his views on drama, he also began writing plays. His debut A short-term play about space for the Prešeren Monument (1904) followed Brother Sokol (2005), which was as much a comedy as it was Gypsies (2006) staged at the Provincial Theatre in Ljubljana. In the following years he wrote more plays From the ninth land (1908), Volkashin (1913) and Where there is love, there is God (1913), a dramatization of Tolstoy's story.
After World War I, he became a member of the Slovenian Theatre Consortium. In his later years, he created two more plays for young people, Mighty Ring and A cheerful game about a sad princess (both 1923) and a satire with a hero from the famous Levstik story, which he subtitled Krpan the younger (1925). Even today, Milčinski is still present on Slovenian stages, not with his comedies, but with dramatizations of stories about the Butalci. Pistons are his most frequently performed work, although the author never intended them as stage texts. One of the dramatizations is also available in two versions on our website:
Fran Milčinski (and Jaša Jamnik): Pistons (1998)
Fran Milčinski (and Jaša Jamnik): Fools!!! (2004)
You can see on our website e-exhibition about Fran Milčinski and his dramaThe author of the exhibition is Tea Rogelj.
