Permanent exhibition IN PURSUIT OF A THEATRE. From the Jesuits to Cankar
The permanent exhibition WALK AFTER THEATRE – From the Jesuits to Cankar vividly presents the beginnings and main trends of theatre in Slovenia, its integration into European cultural developments and its role in shaping Slovenian national consciousness. The great story stretches from the theatre of the Reformers and Counter-Reformers and concludes with the appearance of the Slovenian playwright of European stature, Ivan Cankar, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when …
Nominee Day 2022
Nominees' Day at the Slovenian Drama Week is an event where the texts nominated for the Slavko Grum Award are traditionally presented. The festival (afternoon) day is entirely dedicated to the best texts of new Slovenian drama, and the purpose of the event is to present the authors and create a space for dialogical questioning of the state of original drama in the Slovenian theatre space, its staging, interpretation, etc.
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 …
THE ART OF KAMISHIBAI Proceedings of the International Symposium The Art of Kamishibai: The Word of the Image and the Image of the Word
On December 7, World Kamishibai Day, which is being celebrated for the first time this year at the initiative of the International Kamishibai Association of Japan (IKAJA), we are publishing The Art of Kamishibai, a collection of contributions from the international symposium The Art of Kamishibai: The Word of Image and the Image of the Word, which was organized in May this year by the Slovenian Theatre Institute, the Zapik Society and the Kamishibai Society of Slovenia in …
Izidor Cankar, PhD (art historian, a decade older cousin of Ivan Cankar), actor Anton Verovšek and Ivan Cankar paying visit to the writer Fran Saleški Finžgar (sitting in the photo) in Sora near Medvode on 11 July, 1911
Izidor Cankar, PhD (art historian, a decade older cousin of Ivan Cankar), actor Anton Verovšek and Ivan Cankar paying visit to the writer Fran Saleški Finžgar (sitting in the photo) in Sora near Medvode on 11 July, 1911. Ivan Cankar in conversation with Izidor Cankar at Rožnik: »What gives me the most acceleration at writing …
Fran Milčinski (playwright), E-exhibition
Exhibition author: Mag. Tea Rogelj, Senior Curator, Slovenian Theatre Institute – Theatre Museum Fran Milčinski (1876-1932) is known among Slovenians primarily as a storyteller and author of humorous short stories. His Birds Without a Nest and the almost nationalized Butalci are included in compulsory school reading. During his lifetime, or in the period between the two wars, he was also known as a dramatist …
Reclaimed Avant-garde: Spaces and Stages of Avant-garde Theater in Central-Eastern Europe
Reclaimed Avant-garde: Spaces and Stages of Avant-garde Theater in Central-Eastern Europe is a collection of articles that, as the title suggests, explore innovative alternatives in theater scenography and space conceived and created by artists of the Central-Eastern European interwar avant-garde. The book sums up the second stage of the Reclaimed Avant-garde project, initiated...
Scenographic sketches by Milan Butina, E-exhibition
Exhibition author: Mag. Tea Rogelj, Senior Curator, Slovenian Theatre Institute – Theatre Museum Academic painter and set designer Milan Butina (1923-1999) designed the set design (sometimes also the costume design) for more than ninety productions of Slovenian professional theatres between 1951 and 1973. He most often worked at the Ljubljana City Theatre. In July 2018, the Slovenian Theatre Institute received a gift of 30 stage …
Miha Maleš: Portraits, E-exhibition
Exhibition author: Mag. Tea Rogelj, Senior Curator, Slovenian Theatre Institute – Theatre Museum The Slovenian Theatre Institute – Theatre Museum houses a collection of portrait drawings and prints by Miha Maleš (1903–1987). Miha Maleš established himself primarily as a printmaker. His first major graphic work was portraits of distinguished Slovenians from the 15th century onwards. In the 1936/37 season and also …
Josip Primožič-Tošo (scenographer), E-exhibition
Exhibition author: Mag. Tea Rogelj, Senior Curator, Slovenian Theatre Institute – Theatre Museum In 1981, the Slovenian Theatre Museum or the Slovenian Theatre Institute received a collection of scenographic sketches by Josip Primožič Toš (also known as Jože Primožič Tošo) from the Slovenian National Theatre in Maribor. In 2012, his children donated a collection of his sketches to the institute, which …
Borštnik's meeting
Borštnik's Meeting is the most important Slovenian theatre festival. In addition to the most prestigious award for lifetime achievement, the Borštnik Ring, the expert jury at the festival also awards prizes for the best staging, direction, acting and other artistic achievements of the previous season. The library of the Slovenian Theatre Institute has collected a large amount of material about Borštnik's Meeting. With the selection for the book exhibition, we are …
Izidor Cankar (art historian, Ivan Cankar's cousin by a decade), actor Anton Verovšek and Ivan Cankar on July 11, 1911, visiting the writer Fran Saleški Finžgar (sitting in the photograph) in Sora pri Medvodah
Ivan Cankar in conversation with Izidor Cankar at Rožnik: "What drives me to work the most is anger. Political and literary intrigues lead a person to write to cool their heart. For the Good of the Nation, Lady Judith, and White Chrysanthemum were created like this. If there were no anger... God bless her! So I prepare the material in advance, all the chapters are...
The Art of Kamishibai
The International Symposium The Art of Kamishibai: The Word of the Image and the Image of the Word took place between 10 and 12 May at the Slovenian Theater Institute and was organized by the Slovenian Theater Institute, Zapik Association, and Kamishibai Association of Slovenia in cooperation with the Faculty of Education of University of …
Amfiteater, Journal of Performing Arts Theory, Volume 6, Number 2
The present issue is a joint edition of two journals of performing arts, namely, the Slovenian journal Amfiteater and the Macedonian journal Ars Academica. The motive behind this decision was the bilateral research project Macedonian-Slovenian Theater Relations (from 1990 until the Present), carried out during 2017 and 2018 by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Skopje...
Amphitheatre, Journal of Performing Arts Theory, Volume 6, Issue 2
The second issue of the sixth annual issue of Amfiteatar and the sixth issue of Ars Academica bring the results of the bilateral project Macedonian-Slovenian Theatre Ties (from 1990 to the present), which was implemented between 2017 and 2018 by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje and the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. Colophon Index Editorial Amfiteatar 6/2 Thematic block …
The art of kamishibai
The Art of Kamishiba is a collection of contributions from the international symposium The Art of Kamishiba: The Word of the Image and the Image of the Word, which was prepared in May 2018 by the Slovenian Theatre Institute, the Zapik Society and the Kamishibaj Society of Slovenia in cooperation with the Faculty of Education of the University of Primorska, the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana, the Department of Asian Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of …
World Kamishibai Day. Stories on Four Legs at SLOGI – Theatre Museum
At the initiative of the International Kamishibai Association of Japan (IKAJA), which unites kamishibai players in 50 countries around the world, this year we are celebrating World Kamishibai Day for the first time on December 7. On this day, FOR SCHOOL GROUPS, in cooperation with the "parents" of kamishibai in our country, Igor Cvetko and Jelena Sitar Cvetko from the Zapik Society, we are preparing a kamishibai performance called Stories on ...
Presentation of the joint issue of the journal for the theory of performing arts AMFITEATER and ARS ACADEMICA (Skopje)
The second issue of the sixth annual issue of Amfiteatar and the sixth issue of Ars Academica bring the results of the bilateral project Macedonian-Slovenian Theatre Ties (from 1990 to the present), which was implemented between 2017 and 2018 by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje and the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. We will present four discussions: Zala Dobovšek and Sašo …
This happy day of culture 2018 at the Slovenian Theatre Institute – Theatre Museum
This year, too, we are joining this happy day of culture, the celebration of December 3 - Prešeren's birthday. Free entry!
Renewed public guided tour of the permanent exhibition WALKING BEHIND THE THEATRE. From the Jesuits to Cankar
The permanent exhibition, which sheds light on the path taken by Slovenian theatre from the 17th to the 20th century, has been given new dimensions and perspectives in the Year of European Cultural Heritage, with which we are trying to place it more clearly on the map of European theatre history. The great story stretches from the theatre of the Reformers and Counter-Reformers and concludes with the performance of a Slovenian playwright of European stature...
The stage between dream and hardship by Miroslav Košuta, guest presentation of the book
The new book by poet and writer Miroslav Košuta collects notes written between 1963 and 2018, focusing on the period of a quarter of a century of management of the Slovenian Permanent Theatre in Trieste and a year and a half in anticipation of retirement. The notes were already announced in a previous book, entitled Notes on a Misty Window, in which the author omitted …
The Ensemble of the SNT Drama Ljubljana in the Louvre Park during The Serfs tour in 1956
In 1956, SNT Drama Ljubljana staged a performance of "The Serfs" by Ivan Cankar in Paris. After the return home, the direction of Drama put out a press release, stating that: "At the tour of Cankar's Serfs at this year's third World Theater Festival in Paris, something happened that even the greatest optimists could not...
Slovenian theatre publishers at the 34th Slovenian Book Fair
Theatre is not just a performance, it is also a diverse profession with a tradition spanning thousands of years. Theatre history, theory, criticism and analysis, reflections, knowledge, behaviour, skills... are recorded in books, magazines... presented by Slovenian theatre publishers. The most important publishers in the field of theatre will introduce themselves to you with novelties, fundamental works and publishing curiosities, intended for both professional and wider audiences...
The Ljubljana Drama Ensemble in the Louvre Park during the tour of The Servants in Paris in 1956
The drama of the Slovenian National Theatre in Ljubljana toured in Paris with Cankar's Servants in 1956. After returning from the tour, the theatre's management wrote in a press statement, among other things: "During the tour of the Slovenian National Theatre from Ljubljana with Cankar's Servants at this year's third world theatre festival in Paris, something happened that they could not and...
Symposium THE CENTURY OF SLAVES
Many famous lines from Ivan Cankar's now canonized play sparked heated reactions at the time of its creation, which influenced the performance of the work itself. In fact, Cankar had already predicted the plot twists when he conceived The Servants. He wrote to his publisher in September 1909: "The play will cause a bigger scandal than For the Good of the Nations. I have made a faithful portrait of our current extremely dirty ...
Interview with this year's Borštnik Ring recipient Janez Škof
After the conclusion of the 53rd Borštnik Meeting Festival in Maribor, we will host this year's Borštnik Ring recipient, actor Janez Škof, at the Slovenian Theatre Institute in Ljubljana. The discussion will be moderated by theatrologist Ana Perne from the Slovenian Theatre Institute. "I am not an artist. Cankar said of himself that he was an artist. Dragan Živadinov also says so, and I think for both of them...
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 …
Zofija Borštnik Zvonarjeva (1868–1948)
The theater actress Zofija Borštnik Zvonarjeva was born 150 years ago. She debuted in 1882, at the age of 14, on the stage of the Ljubljana Reading Room. She was later active as an actress in Zagreb and in Ljubljana, but performed also in Sofia, Belgrade, Osijek and elsewhere (as she was used to using Slovenian, …
Theatre Decade, Criticisms 1979/80 – 1989/90 by Jernej Novak, presentation of the new publication SLOGI
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 Novak points out …