Breda Marušič: Iz romana na oder, Dramatizacija sodobnega slovenskega romana
Knjiga Iz romana na oder Brede Marušič predstavlja vzorčen primer analitičnega pristopa tako s svojo metodološko preglednostjo, instruktivno naravo, kronološkim pregledom dramatizacij in njihovih uprizoritev od začetkov v 19. stoletju do danes kot z obravnavo vzorčnih primerov dramatizacij in uprizoritev sodobnega slovenskega romana.
Theatre as a Museum
The Muzeum Institute, which made a decisive contribution to the introduction of visual arts and contemporary dance into Slovenian performing arts in the 1990s, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The publication Theatre as a Museum was co-published by the Slovenian Theatre Institute and the Muzeum Institute, directed by Barbara Novakovič, a producer and curator.
Dušan Jovanović
The monograph, which presents Jovanović's oeuvre, primarily his directing and dramatic work, includes contributions by Dr. Diana Koloini, Dr. Aleksandra Jovićević, Alja Predan, Darja Dominkuš, Dr. Tomaž Toporišič, mag. Sebastijan Horvat, Dr. Aldo Milohnić, Dr. Gašper Troha, Dr. Milan Mađarev, Hrvoje Ivanković, Dr. Blaž Lukan, Janez Pipan, Draga Potočnjak, Saša Pavček, Martina Mrhar, Drago Ivanuša and Dragan Živadinov. The authors of the essays present and theoretically elaborate various chapters of his work, and the testimonies of his collaborators and companions are also included.
Documents - 60 years, Bibliography (1964-2024)
After fifty years, a bibliography created again, which most directly shows the quantity and quality of the very diverse book material of Documents SGM/SLOGI. The added index enables searching by the names discussed (articles about Ivan Cankar, Oton Župančič...) and actual keywords (ballet, Koper - theater, radio...). More than one hundred and fifty sections are said to be helpful in searching, and at the same time testify to the rich content of the Documents.
As if I were here temporarily - In dialogue with Tomi Janežič
A book of interviews with a theatre director is a rare occurrence among theatre publications. The publishing imperative for it was triggered by Tomi Janežič's directorial discourse, by the staging poetics that defined the last quarter of a century of theatre in this part of Europe. After high school in Nova Gorica and his years of study at the AGRFT, the initiation act by which Tomi Janežič enters …
I worked for 40 years. Dramatizations and adaptations of Cankar's Servant Jerne
The Servant Jernej and His Right is Cankar's work that has probably been translated into the most foreign languages. In addition, this famous story has been frequently adapted for other artistic media by various creators (playwrights, directors, actors, composers, etc.), so that to date there have been around 40 dramatizations, adaptations, musical settings, librettos, scripts and radio plays, and most recently an adaptation...
The Generator:: for Manufacturing Any Number of Drama Complexes
With its subtitle Slovenian Experimental Dramatic and Performative Texts from the Modernist Period (1966–1986), the anthology The Generator:: for Manufacturing Any Number of Drama Complexes gives a sufficiently simple indication of the nature and time of the emergence of the texts gathered into this book – it includes almost 60 texts by 30 Slovenian authors,...
GENERATOR:: to produce any number of drama complexes
Generator::for the production of any number of drama complexes is a collection of almost 60 dramatic and performance texts by 30 Slovenian authors (A. Kermauner, M. Hanžek, S. Žižek, V. Kovač – Chubby, S. Simčič, D. Jovanović, T. Šalamun, OHO, R. Močnik, I. Zagoričnik, T. Kralj, S. Makarovič, M. Jesih, F. Rudolf, I. Svetina, BA Novak, Nomenklatura, V. Zupan, A. …
Equinox by Marjan Kozina
Equinox is one of the most frequently performed and successful Slovenian operas abroad, but at the same time it does not have a definitive form, as the author, and later its interpreters, often changed it. Borut Smrekar approaches it from different directions. He analyzes its genesis, content and formal appearance, and defends the position that Equinox is the best Slovenian opera of all time. »Equinox …
Why already? Performances of Slovenian dramatic texts and dramatizations (From the 1999/2000 season to the 2012/2013 season, Modernity, But, Work, Views)
The collection of critiques Why Already? by Vesna Jurca Tadel focuses attention on notes on the staging of Slovenian dramatic texts, and expands this focus with notes on stagings based on dramatizations of foreign texts by Slovenian creators, as well as with a few original performances selected by the author. The selection of texts testifies to the situation of Slovenian theatrical production in the period between …
CENTURY OF SLAVES - On the occasion of the centenary of the christening performance of Ivan Cankar's drama Servants
The 100th anniversary of the first performance of The Servants is being celebrated a few months after the end of the Cankar Year. It still seems strange, but also tragic, that this great drama – perhaps the most important, the most Slovenian, the most political of Cankar’s plays – was only brought to life on the theatre stage after the author’s life had ended. He wrote the play with “our …
THE SPACE WITHIN THE SPACE: Scenography in Slovenia from the 17th Century to 1991
Ana Kocjančič's book The Space within the Space – Scenography in Slovenia from 17th Century to 1991 is an extensive professional monograph "with the help of which the reader travels through important stations in the history of Slovenian scenography, theater, fine arts and culture in general," wrote the reviewer dr. Tomaž Toporišič. The monograph is …
SPACE IN SPACE – Scenography in Slovenia from the 17th century to 1991
Ana Kocjančič's book SPACE IN SPACE – Scenography in Slovenia from the 17th century to 1991 is a comprehensive professional monograph "with the help of which the reader travels through important stages in the history of Slovenian scenography, theatre, fine arts and culture in general," as the reviewer Dr. Tomaž Toporišič wrote. The monograph is divided into two books. In the first book, the author discusses …
THEATRE DECADE – Criticisms 1979/80–1989/90
The Theatre Decade, with a selection of theatre criticism by Jernej Novak between the seasons 1979/80 and 1989/90, examines the productions of ten Slovenian institutional stages, six non-institutional productions and nine AGRFT study creations. Novak also devotes a special section to Choreodrama, a relatively short but influential phenomenon on the Slovenian theatre scene at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. As Jernej points out …
To Hear the Picture, to See the Sound: The History of the Radio Play in Slovenia
In the sphere of the Slovenian language, the radio play is, together with its creators, a constituent part of world radio play productions. Neither the size of the language space nor the size of the country, or even the number of its inhabitants, present an obstacle. In the mosaic of art and the cultural pulse of...
HEAR THE PICTURE, SEE THE SOUND – The history of radio play in Slovenia
Aleš Jan's book HEARING THE IMAGE, SEEING THE SOUND – The History of Radio Drama in Slovenia deals with the history of radio drama in the Slovenian cultural space from its beginnings to the present day. It is "a hybrid between historiography, theorization and testimony about this important medium and genre of Slovenian contemporary verbal and media art," as the reviewer Dr. Tomaž Toporišič wrote. About the book …
FRANCI KRIŽAJ: In the safe haven of creative unrest, Theatrical vignette
Mojca Kreft's book is dedicated to Franci Križaj (1936–2005), who visibly marked the work of Oder 57, and created the largest part of his artistic work as a house director at the Slovenian Folk Theatre in Celje. Ivo Svetina wrote in his foreword that the author's study is "an extensive and in-depth discussion of one of the important Slovenian theatre directors, who ...
POST SCRIPTUM. Part Two: Selected Criticisms of Radio Plays
It is complemented by Part One: Selected Theatre Criticisms. The two publications, which were published in the collection Documents of the Slovenian Theatre Institute under serial number 94, present a selection of criticisms by the renowned and prolific writer Lojze Smask, born in 1928 in Maribor. The long-time journalist, journalist and art critic significantly co-created the pages of the cultural editorial department of the daily Večer for four decades; he monitored and evaluated …
POST SCRIPTUM. Part one: Selected theater reviews
It is complemented by Part Two: Selected Criticisms of Radio Plays. The two publications, which were published in the collection Documents of the Slovenian Theatre Institute under serial number 94, present a selection of criticisms by the renowned and prolific writer Lojze Smask, born in 1928 in Maribor. The long-time journalist, journalist and art critic significantly contributed to the cultural editorial pages of the daily newspaper Večer for four decades; he followed and …
The Beginnings and Achievements of Slovenian Theatre in the Modern Era: On the 150th Anniversary of the Founding of the Dramatic Society in Ljubljana
In 2017, Slovenian theatre celebrates an important anniversary, the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Dramatic Society in Ljubljana. It was only with the founding of the Dramatic Society in 1867 that the foundations for the development of Slovenian theatre in the modern era were laid. The scientific monograph The Beginnings and Achievements of Slovenian Theatre in the Modern Era: On the 150th Anniversary of the Founding of the Dramatic Society in Ljubljana is dedicated to the Society itself, its role, its development...
The Beginnings and Achievements of the Slovenian Theater of the Modern Age: On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Drama Society in Ljubljana
The Drama Society in Ljubljana (founded in 1867) was the initiator of the Slovenian theater of the modern age. In its development from 1867 to 1920 it negotiated a fifty-year long road through the period of institutionalization and professionalization of the Slovenian theatre, finishing it in 1920 with the advent of a new development stage; i.e....
By all accounts: theatre reviews 1993-2013
Under the title Po visem sodeč, which, given the large number of occurrences, but also from a content perspective, represented an appropriate designation for the author to illustrate his own critical process, the book brings together 341 critiques that provide, as the author writes in the foreword, "insight into the important decades of Slovenian theatre between 1993 and 2013. The main role in it...
The Edge in the Center: Selected Chapters on Experimental Theatre in Slovenia 1955–1967
The book Edge in the Center: Selected Chapters from the History of Experimental Theatre in Slovenia 1955–1967 stems from the realization of the intertwining of institutional and extra-institutional activity during the development of Slovenian theatre after 1950, when it was fueled by creative currents outside Slovenia and Yugoslavia. It shows the dialectic of developmental changes that were not predicted and realized by …
The Edge in the Centre: Selected Chapters from the History of Experimental Theater in Slovenia 1955–1967
The Edge in the Centre: Selected Chapters from the History of Experimental Theater in Slovenia 1955–1967 is a result of investigating the interconnections between institutional and non-institutional activities in the development of Slovenian theater in the period after 1950, a period that was fueled throughout by the contact with creative currents outside of Slovenia,...
Jubilee Theater of Emperor Franz Jožef in Ljubljana. The history of the creation and development of the German stage between 1911 and 1918
In her scientific monograph, theatre scholar Sandra Jenko presents the development of German theatre in Ljubljana from the late 19th to the early 20th century. With her research and findings, she fills a gap in Slovenian theatre historiography. The central part of the book sheds light on the activities of the provincial German stage, which was based in the Carniolan provincial capital in the building of today's SNG Drama Ljubljana. Jubilee …
Views on the work of Dušan Moravec
Dušan Moravec is a central figure in Slovenian theatre studies of the second half of the 20th century. The collection Pogledi na delo Dušan Moravec presents the work and personality of an outstanding scholar and author who (since reporting on the performances of the partisan theatre in the Slovenski poročevalc) significantly shaped the state of mind of Slovenian Italy. The contributions deal with a wide variety of segments of Moravec's work: from the Library of the Ljubljana City Theatre, …
Slovenian drama with ancient themes
The time span of the study Slovenian Drama with Ancient Themes ranges from the first modest attempts at authorial treatment of ancient themes in the 19th century (by Josip Stritar) to the true flowering of the inclusion of ancient material in Slovenian dramatic writing at the end of the 20th century. The author asks the question of what it means to deal with ancient content-ideological models in drama (and in literature in general), and shows that …
SAG – TRIEST (Slovenian Amateur Theatre Trieste from the 1971/72 season to the 1976/77 season)
When Josip Vidmar introduced the term of a common Slovenian cultural space in the late 1960s and Slovenian official policy understood this as its duty, Slovenian cultural activity in the Trieste region, which took place outside the Slovenian Theatre (since 1976 called the Slovenian Permanent Theatre), received less attention. At the time when in Ljubljana …
Beautiful Visions by the Silver River: Cultural and Theatrical Work of Litoral and Other Early Immigrants in Argentina
Slovenian theatrical creativity is not only at home in Slovenia and abroad, but also everywhere where Slovenians live: from Argentina to Australia. This creativity often takes place at an amateur level, but it preserves the original meaning of theatre, as it had for Slovenians at the time when AT Linhart wrote and staged Županovo Micka and uses Slovenian …
From A(bram) to Župančič: contents of 765 plays by Slovenian authors
Dr. Alenka Goljevšček summarizes in a comprehensive book form one of the side results of the comprehensive research project Reinterpretation and/or Reconstruction of Slovenian Drama (RSD), which has been created since The Triple Dance of Death (1968) by academician Dr. Taras Kermauner (1930-2008), an erudite and passionate expert and researcher of Slovenian drama. Kermauner analyzed and interpreted Slovenian drama in 128 books using the original mycelial, network methodology, …