New publication on the reopening of SLOGI Why already? Performances of Slovenian dramatic texts and dramatizations (From the 1999/2000 season to the 2012/2013 season, Modernity, But, Work, Views) authors Vesna Jurca Tadel, which was published in the collection Documents of the Slovenian Theatre Institute.
Collection of criticisms Why already?? by author Vesna Jurca Tadel focuses attention on records of performances of Slovenian dramatic texts, and expands this focus with records of performances created 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 theatre production in the period between 1999 and 2013, during which the author was simultaneously present in the magazines Sodobnost and Ampak, in the newspaper Delo, and in the biweekly newspaper Pogledi as an agile companion of theatre events in Slovenia and abroad.
The almost one and a half decade from 1999 to 2013 may not seem too distant from the vantage point of 2020. This very fact also resonates as an exclamation point, as a look at the current media position of theatre criticism (and art criticism as a whole) leads us to be contrite at the "chronological" fact of how abruptly the position of theatre criticism in the media and spiritual climate of Slovenia has deteriorated and continues to sink.
The efforts of decision-makers clearly do not go beyond declarative phrases. The importance of professionally reliable theatre criticism, which is also specifically pointed out by the author of the accompanying study, Dr. Lado Kralj, seems increasingly redundant.
In this sense, the collection bears witness Why already? also about a time when the conditions for theatre criticism were still established in a way that can be felt today as an unattainable ideal.
Primož Jesenko, M.A., editor of the publication
Author Vesna Jurca Tadel on the collection of criticism Why already?
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Vesna Jurca Tadel After graduating in dramaturgy from the AGFRT, she was employed at the MGL, where she was also acting artistic director in the 1991/2 and 1992/3 seasons. Her repertoire design was considered innovative and communicative.
In 1999, she began writing about productions of Slovenian plays for the magazine Sodobnost, and between 2003 and 2011, she contributed to the column Gledališki dnevnik.
From 2003 to 2006, she wrote about performances at the SNG Drama Ljubljana for Delo, and in the 2006/2007 season, she wrote essays about theater for the magazine Ampak in the column Ves svet je oder. From 2010 to 2013, she wrote for the bi-weekly newspaper Pogledi. The book publishes a selection of approximately a third of all her critical writings.
In 2007, she was the president of the jury for the Borštnik Meeting, and between 2007 and 2011, she was a member of the jury for the Kresnik Award.
She is also involved in translation, and has translated several plays by Vili Ravnjak, Boštjan Tadl, and Matjaž Zupančič into English.
In 2013, she stopped writing reviews due to new duties at the Ministry of Culture, where she is employed.
You can order the publication at: slogi@slogi.siThe price of the publication is 18 EUR (shipping not included).
Selection from the media
A collection of reviews Why Already Vesna Jurca Tadel, Kultura program, TV Slovenia, May 22, 2020
