Klub Triglav
IGRALSKA
According to the official and unofficial records, the Slovenians in Sydney started
to gather together in social and cultural
events already in the years l953/54, where they also indulged their love for
drama and performing arts. Slovenians
always loved performing and nearly
every village had their own drama group.
Triglav Drama group started unofficially
as soon as the dance floor was built on the
grounds of the old Triglav farm, allowing
the members to stage short sketches,
performed by the pupils of Triglav
Slovenian language school at special
occasions, like Mother's Day, St Nicholas'
Day and other similar occasions.
Under the direction of the teacher,
Mariza Ličan, the junior drama group
started some serious work. In 1976 they
performed a dramatised version of the
fairy tale »Snowwhite« and even went
to perform it in Melbourne. For the official opening of the new Triglav Club
building they performed the comedy »
The Wedding«.
The senior Triglav Drama group was
formed to honor the occasion of when
the club set up the cultural protection of
the memory of the great Slovenian writer
Ivan Cankar, by erecting the monument
of Ivan Cankar in the grounds of the club.
It was proposed in the year 1977 by the
club's cultural mentor Jože Čuješ to stage
a performance of a play, writen by Ivan
Cankar, »Hlapci«. The very demanding
play was directed by Korl Dolenc, an
experienced amateur director and actor
and brought forward as a lead player
Miran Špicar, a talented performer, who
then went on in the year 1978 to direct a
comedy »Two brides«, where Korl Dolenc
took on a performing role, together with
a number of other talented amateurs.
The comedy was a smashing success and
inspired the group to go on to the next
comedy »Hlače« (»Pants«) a year later,
also directed by Miran Spicar and also
featuring Korl Dolenc, who soon after
returned to his home country and later
died there.
The first dramatic work 'Hlapci' (Servants) by Ivan Cankar, was staged with an older group of Triglav actors.
It couldn't be performed under the marquee on a temporary stage so the Polish hall in Canley Vale, where
many Slovenian dances had previously been organised, was hired. Photo: Miran Špicar and Martha Smuk
(Magajna) in the scene at the inn
Sneguljčica 1976
Ženitev 1989
