The Star and the Heart

Festival Maribor 2023

Ticket price: 5 EUR

Commissioned by the Maribor Festival 2023

World premiere

Co-production with the Maribor Puppet Theatre in collaboration with the Carpe artem music collective.

Based on a play by Milan Jesih, the musical play The Star and the Heart was created in a compositional collaboration between by Nana Forte and Jure Ivanušič. Ivanušič has adapted the play into a concert version in which all of the characters are portrayed by five actor-singers. The humorous characters are brought to life using various musical genres, while the music also illustrates the action and contributes to the magical atmosphere of the story, which has an unexpected twist. The witty performance contains all the elements of a musical with masterful rhyming verses and is sure to please both young and old!

The Story

The Star and the Heart is a fable in which animal characters personify humans. The events take place on Midsummer’s Eve in an abandoned suburban park, where Slavko the nightingale, Hinko the hamster, Kaktus the exotic plant and other little creatures are admiring the beautiful shining Star in the sky. As they gaze at the heavens, a statue of the winged god-child Amor comes to life and starts shooting arrows all around with his bow. Whomever he hits falls in love. As chance would have it, they all fall in love with the Star, who is twinkling in the sky just at that moment. Thinking it is a mirror, the Star falls into a pond. The Star can only return to the sky with the help of true love, so the Firefly takes her to a celebration at the snack bar By the Pond, where all of the park’s creatures are gathered and where the ensemble The Three Potato Brothers is playing. One by one the creatures propose to the Star, each revealing their true nature.

(The performance will be in Slovenian)

* Tickets: 5 € (online purchase)