Rok Vilčnik rokgre
Tarzan (USA)
Theatre Gigante, Milwaukee, USA
Crew
Director: Wes Savick and Jane Kaczmarek
Dramaturg: Michael Stebbins
Stage designer: Rick Graham
Costume designer: Marion Clendenen Acosta
Cast
Cast:
Mark Anderson
Isabelle Kralj
Don Russell
About the performance
Theatre Gigante appearance made possible in part by the Sheldon & Marianne Lubar Charitable Fund of the Lubar Family Foundation.
The foundation of the drama played out in this black comedy is the most basic intrigue found in the relationship between two mature lovers, in this case, Tarzan and Jane. As in most romantic comedies or melodramas in the theatre and film worlds, our middle-aged Tarzan and Jane clash with witty dialogue as they struggle with communicating, unsatisfied desires, jealousy, and the question of whether or not to have a child.
Placing the drama in the middle of the jungle years later gives us a strange new perspective on these issues – a twist – yet at the same time we find them completely familiar and recognisable. Vilčnik compounds the drama by weaving into these existing complexities of the relationship questions about humanity, societal norms, happiness, stereotypes and the boundaries between the human and animal worlds – which are far from being as clear to us as we’d like to think.
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