Borštnik's meeting 2016 will take place between October 14 and 23, 2016 in Maribor and, like every year (for more than 40 years), promises us unforgettable stage experiences. Borštnik's meeting, which is considered the oldest and most prestigious theater festival in Slovenia, attracts the most current domestic and foreign theater creators to its stages every year. Also this year, the prestigious award, the Borštnikov prstan, will be awarded to the selected actress or actor for her/his life's work. A rich cultural program awaits us.
Borštnik's meeting 2016 will take place between October 14 and 23, 2016. Every year, autumn Maribor dresses its stages in a colorful scene and thus becomes a national and international theater center. Borštnik's meeting festival applies to the oldest theater festival on our soil. Its beginnings date back to 1966, when Fran Žižek, then director of Maribor Drama, was the first to organize the Slovenian Theater Week.
In 1970, the festival after Ignacio Borštnik, the founder of artistic theater in Slovenia, was named Borštnik's meeting. Med October 14 and 23 will be in Maribor under the direction of the artistic director Alje Devoted took place Borštnik's meeting 2016. In addition to the rich cultural program, in the framework of which it will be possible to participate in symposia, the staging of international plays, round tables with foreign and domestic creators, and similar events, this year will also be at the center of the action awarding of an important festival prize, the Borštnik ring. The jury will present it to the deserving actor or actress for his/her own life's work.
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Various domestic performances will also compete for special prizes, among which the jury will choose the best and reward them. This year's list competition program includes:
1. Kust Hamsun: HUNGER, directed by Janez Pipan, Mini Teater Ljubljana and City Theater Ptuj
2. Author's project LEARNED WOMEN BASED ON MOLIÈR'S LEARNED WOMEN, directed by Jernej Lorenci, Slovenian Folk Theater Celje and City Theater Ptuj
3. Thomas Bernhard: BEFORE RETIREMENT, directed by Matej Koležnik, Prešeren Theater Kranj
4. Henrik Ibsen: PEER GYNT, directed by Eduard Miler, City Theater Ljubljana and Slovenian Permanent Theater Trieste, 5.
5. Elfriede Jelinek: DRAMA PRINCESS, directed by Michał Borczuch, Slovenian Youth Theatre,
6. Živadinov::Zupančič::Turšič: PROJECTOR, directed by Dragan Živadinov, Zavod Delak
7. Based on Alfred Jarry's King Ubu: THE KING OF UBU, directed by Jernej Lorenci, SNG Drama Ljubljana
8. Slavko Grum: EVENT IN THE CITY OF GOGI, directed by Igor Pison, Slovenian Permanent Theater Trieste and Musical Mother
9. Author's project REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA, the Slovenian Youth Theater and the Mask Institute
10. Gerhart Hauptmann: ROSE BERND, directed by Matej Koležnik, Slovenian Folk Theater Celje
11. Jean Giraudoux: ONDINA, directed by Janusz Kica, SNG Nova Gorica.
In addition to the competitive one, a rich one is also planned companion program. Welcome!
More information:
borstnikovo.si
