This one act play written and acted in the Dolenjska speech of the village of Breg near Ribnica arose from the desire that the younger generation should be able to approach in an authentic a way as possible certain events from everyday village life in semi-recent history. The oral tradition (narrative) of the author's father and other villagers was reshaped into a dramatic text, while the choice of on-stage actions, the location of the events, the stage props and costumes was also intended to bring the content even closer. For the actors and the original audience (locals) two further factors are important: that in some cases they are playing their actual forebears (although they retain their personal name) and that they are speaking in their first language, i.e. the local dialect. Through language they express their belonging to or distance from the community (the different dialect speech of the constables, the different language of the smugglers). Thus the short one-act play (all of 25 minutes) captures a fragment of local history, the memory of some important villagers, and the material and non-material culture (a dying lexicon, house and land names) through the speech of the community.
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