SLG Celje - Secrets

Jacqueline Wilson (1945) is an award-winning and best-selling English author, known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Over 30 million copies of her books have been sold in the UK alone. British children awarded her the title of their best loved author, while the Independent called her a »literary superstar«. Wilson always wanted to be a writer; she wrote her first book at the age of nine, she was a teenage journalist at the Jackie magazine, which was supposedly named after her, and afterwards she became a full-time writer. One of her most famous and earliest literary characters is a mischievous girl Tracy Beaker, who appeared for the first time in 1991 in The Story of Tracy Beaker. Wilson has won many prestigious awards for children’s literature. In 2008 she became Dame Jacqueline Wilson.

Wilson’s gripping book about two thirteen-year old girls, Secrets (2002) was adapted into a play in 2008 by Vicky Ireland, who had previously adapted five of Jacqueline Wilson’s books. Due to her stepfather’s violence and her mother’s indifference, Treasure escapes from home to live with her grandmother. She seeks solace in her diary. India lives in a well-off family. Her mother designs clothes for children and is obsessed with her work and her daughter’s weight. India does not get along well with her mother, but she used to adore her father, who is addicted to drink. She seeks solace in her journal, which she keeps in sincere imitation of her heroine, Anne Frank, and in which she can confide in her imaginary friend Kitty. A chance meeting sparks a great friendship between the girls in spite of their social differences. And when Treasure has to run away to avoid her abusive stepfather, India comes up with a hiding place inspired by her favourite author. India hasn’t got a real Secret Annexe in which Anne Frank had been hiding from the Nazis, but she has got a hidden attic. It is due to their big secret and a close friendship that the girls become firmly bonded.

Stage Adaptation by Vicky Ireland
Translator Gregor Fon
Director Mateja Koležnik
Dramaturg Tatjana Doma
Set Designer Ivo Knezović
Costume Designer Alan Hranitelj
Composer Coco Mosquito
Choreograph Magda Reiter
Language Consultant Jože Volk
Sculpted objects by Danijel Srdarev

Cast
India Upton Minca Lorenci
Treasure Mitchell Ana Ruter
Moya Upton, Doris Mitchell, Alice Jagoda
Wanda, Tammy Mitchell, Maria Manca Ogorevc
Richard Upton, Terry, Michael Watkins, Gospod Gibbs Aljoša Koltak

Opening 5 October 2012
Performance duration: 55 minutes. No interval.

Jagoda, Aljoša Koltak, Manca Ogorevc
Jagoda, Aljoša Koltak, Manca Ogorevc
Minca Lorenci, Ana Ruter
Minca Lorenci, Ana Ruter
Aljoša Koltak, Jagoda, Manca Ogorevc
Aljoša Koltak, Jagoda, Manca Ogorevc
Aljoša Koltak, Manca Ogorevc, Jagoda
Ana Ruter, Aljoša Koltak, Minca Lorenci
Minca Lorenci
Ana Ruter
Jagoda, Ana Ruter, Manca Ogorevc
Aljoša Koltak, Manca Ogorevc, Ana Ruter
Jagoda, Ana Ruter, Manca Ogorevc
Jagoda, Ana Ruter, Manca Ogorevc
Minca Lorenci, Aljoša Koltak
Aljoša Koltak, Minca Lorenci
Ana Ruter, Minca Lorenci, Jagoda
Minca Lorenci, Ana Ruter
Jagoda, Minca Lorenci, Ana Ruter
Ana Ruter, Aljoša Koltak, Minca Lorenci
Minca Lorenci, Jagoda, Ana Ruter
Aljoša Koltak, Minca Lorenci, Manca Ogorevc
Aljoša Koltak, Minca Lorenci, Manca Ogorevc
Minca Lorenci, Manca Ogorevc
Ana Ruter, Aljoša Koltak, Minca Lorenci
Ana Ruter, Aljoša Koltak, Minca Lorenci
Ana Ruter, Aljoša Koltak, Minca Lorenci, Jagoda
Jagoda, Ana Ruter, Minca Lorenci
Ana Ruter, Jagoda, Manca Ogorevc, Aljoša Koltak
Ana Ruter, Jagoda, Manca Ogorevc, Aljoša Koltak
Jagoda, Manca Ogorevc, Aljoša Koltak
Jagoda, Manca Ogorevc, Aljoša Koltak
Manca Ogorevc, Jagoda, Aljoša Koltak, Minca Lorenci
Manca Ogorevc, Minca Lorenci
Jagoda, Ana Ruter, Minca Lorenci
Minca Lorenci, Ana Ruter
Minca Lorenci, Ana Ruter
Minca Lorenci, Ana Ruter
Manca Ogorevc
Minca Lorenci, Manca Ogorevc
Minca Lorenci, Ana Ruter
Aljoša Koltak, Minca Lorenci, Manca Ogorevc
Jagoda, Aljoša Koltak, Minca Lorenci, Manca Ogorevc
Minca Lorenci, Aljoša Koltak, Jagoda
Minca Lorenci, Jagoda, Aljoša Koltak
Jagoda, Aljoša Koltak, Manca Ogorevc
Minca Lorenci, Ana Ruter, Jagoda, Aljoša Koltak
Ana Ruter, Minca Lorenci, Aljoša Koltak, Jagoda, Manca Ogorevc
Melita Trojar, Mojca Panič, Aljoša Koltak, David Vitez, Metod Kroflič, Ana Ruter
Jagoda, A. Koltak, A. Abraham, M. Sumrak, D. Les, M. Ogorevc, S. Prodanović, M. Panič, ...

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