Roger Rueff: HOSPITALITY SUITE
| CAST: | |
| PHIL | SLAVKO JURAGA |
| LARRY | MARKO TORJANAC |
| BOB | LUKA DRAGIĆ |
| DIRECTING | SLAVICA KNEŽEVIĆ |
| TRANSLATION | ZVJEZDANA BUBNJAR I MARKO TORJANAC |
| SET DESIGN | DAVOR JURAVIĆ |
| COSTUME DESIGN | ĐURĐA JANEŠ |
| LIGHT DESIGN | DAVOR JURAVIĆ |
| SOUND DESIGN | MLADEN DERVENKAR |
| MUSIC SELECTION | MLADEN DERVENKAR |
| DESIGN | NIKOLINA BIŠKUP |
| PHOTOGRAPHY: | MLADEN POBI |
| SOUND: | BRANKO VODENIČAR |
| WARDROBE AND PROPS | MARINA UROIĆ |
The staging of this play was made possible by the United States Embassy, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands and the Open Society Institute.
Production: PLANET ART and EPILOG TEATAR
HOSPITALITY SUITE
According to a survey published in American newspapers Hospitality Suit is considered to be the funniest play of the nineties. Other sources claim it to be the most intelligent piece of theatre text written in the nineties. In any case, this makes a good recommendation for a play which appeals to young business people with its cynical humor.
Hospitality Suit deals with the issues of modern civilization.
How to be a human being in a world where money is everything? How to stay true to yourself? Is there a line between professionalism and solidarity with your fellow man? How to hold onto your marriage, friends? Are we descending into the final circle of hell or are we witnessing offered numerous possibilities? What is religion today? Is it God, man or money? Is marketing a religion? And finally, who can we trust?
Teeming with witty and interesting dialogues, this touching play won several awards and is one of the most performed plays in Croatia in the past two years. The play was a guest at many domestic and foreign theatre festivals.
SUMMARY
Three marketing experts of different ages, while staying at a hotel during a marketing conference, are hoping to close the deal of a lifetime. They have good reason to think so because a man who can make their dreams come true is coming to the conference.
The writer
ROGER RUEFF
ROGER RUEFF is an award-winning writer whose produced dramatic works include stage plays, teleplays, and screenplays. His play Hospitality Suite premiered at South Coast Repertory Theater in California in 1992 and has been subsequently produced at theaters across North America and in Japan. His play So Many Words also premiered at South Coast Rep, where it garnered two awards from the L.A. Drama Critics Circle for best writing and the other for best play to receive its world premiere in Los Angeles (the Ted Schmitt Award).
Mr. Rueff's works for the screen include the teleplay God Lives produced by the Magic Door Children's Theater in Chicago and The Big Kahuna, his screen adaptation of Hospitality Suite, starring Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito. The Big Kahuna premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, 1999, and was one of three films nominated for the 2000 Humanitas Award for independent film.
Roger Rueff also published a poetry collection titled Fifty Things I Want My Son To Know which contains fifty poetic messages to his son.
