Theatre Deze Kostolanji from Subotica in Vojvodina had a premiere performance of Rona Zulj play THE SUN LAUGHTS, directed by Attila Antal, on October 22. The leading roles were played by Andrea Erdelj, Kristina Vago, Imre Elek Mikes, Gabor Mesaros, Arpad Mesaros.
About the play: Rona Zulj’s The Sun Laughs is a political piece. Its plot situated around the production of bread. The main theme being the questions that surrounds human rationale.
Theatre Mala Scena will perform Parachutists Or On The Art Of Falling in the Sydney Opera House between 13th and 24th of October. This is the 30th international guest appearance of ‘Parachutists’ which makes it one of the most recognizable theatre products from Croatia.
Parachutists Or On The Art Of Falling opens up space for both the actors/dancers and the audience to play with the subject of flying and falling. Investigating the subject of gravity, the play talks of human desires and disillusions, of dreams and wishes, of rises and falls, of encounters and farewells… of life.
In this charming, wordless performance driven by original music and rhythms, two performers from Croatia’s Theatre Mala Scena playfully explore how gravity impacts our everyday lives. Dressed in sky-diving fatigues, an energetic duo combines lively dance and circus acrobatics with plenty of humour and audience interaction to show that gravity means much more than just the pull of the Earth. Parachutists or On the Art of Falling explores the concepts of flying, falling and freedom with the help of feathers, whizzing balloons and more surprises! Play with the subject of flying and falling. Investigating the subject of gravity, the play talks of human desires and disillusions, of dreams and wishes, of rises and falls, of encounters and farewells… of life. Play is directed by Ivica Simic.
The Blue Elephant Theatre from London will give a premiere performance of Ivor Martinic play THE TITLE OF THE DRAMA ABOUT ANTE IS WRITTEN HERE on September 22nd. It will be directed by Rebecca Tortora. The leading roles will be played by Naomi Bullock, Marko Cindric, Maggie Daniels, Nadja Mitidiero and Daniel Simpson.
Ivor Martinic is award-winning Croatian Playwright. For his play Simply: (unhappy) he was given the Marin Drzic award (main Croatian drama award) by the Croatian Ministry of Culture. For play The Title of the Drama About Ante is Written Here he won the Fabriqué en Croatie award by the REZ association. The play was first produced by City Theatre Split in May 2009.
About the play: 1,280 children were wounded during the Croatian War of Independence. Written in a playfully dramatic style and based on a true story, The title of the drama About Ante is Written Here tells of one such child. Ante turns twelve today. Less than a year old when a missile killed his mother, can he grow up to forget the past or will his country’s history scar him forever?
Link of the theatre: http://www.blueelephanttheatre.co.uk/whatson.htm
Dates: Tuesday 22 September – Saturday 10 October
Croatian performance On the other side by ZKM Theatre will attend festival Sens Interdis that’s is hold in Lyon, France. They will perform at 21&22&23 September.
Photo from the performance On the other side, ZKM Theatre.
On the Other Side is a performance about four lonely people and their attempts to tell their stories to the audience. The scenic action in this funny tragicomedy appears to capture the rhythm of the daily life and the four actors build up extremely realistic characters, in which they bring in traces of their own life and experiences. Creators of the production are Bobo Jelcic and Natasa Rajkovic. They have been working together in theatre since 1993. With On the Other Side they attract the attention of the international theatre festivals with participations in Divadelna Nitra (Slovakia), MESS (Sarajevo) and 29 other festival. It has won many awards, including: 46th MESS, Sarajevo, 2006 – award for best young actor (Kresimir Mikic) 17th Marulic Days, Split, 2007 – special jury award for drama material (Natasa Rajkovic and Bobo Jelcic), Marulic award for best actress (Ksenija Marinkovic), best actor (Niksa Butijer) 14th International Festival of small scenes, Rijeka, 2007 – Veljko Maricic Award for best actress (Ksenija Marinkovic) and for dramaturgy (Natasa Rajkovic and Bobo Jelcic).
List of International festivals that On the other side attend:
MESS, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina – 23 October 2006
Yugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade, Serbia – 30 October 2006
Beyond Belonging – Autoput Avrupa Hebbel Theater, Berlin, Germany – 19 March2007
ARL, Scena Karantena, Dubrovnik – 29 March 2007
Slovenian Youth Theater, Ljubljana, Slovenia – 18 April 2007
KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Brussels, Belgium – 22 – 26 May 2007
International Festival Belluard Bollwerk, Fribourg, Switzerland – 1.6. 2007
Montenegrin National Theater, Podgorica, Montenegro – 11.9. 2007
Center for Culture, Kotor, Montenegro – 12 September 2007
Festival Dividelná Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia – 25 September 2007
International Theater Festival, Skupi Fest, Skopje – 13 November 2007
Macedonian National Theater, Skopje, Macedonia – 14 November 2007
Brut Wien, Vienna, Austria – 28 November – 1 December 2007
Heidelberger Stückemarkt, Heidelberg, Germany – 8 May 2008
16th International Theater Festival, Varna, Bulgaria – 9 June 2008.
Mittelfest, Cividale, Italy – 20 July 2008
Stage Theater Festival, Helsinki, Finland – 21 August 2008
Festival Divadlo, Plzen, Czech Republic – 10 September 2008
Theatre du Nord, Lille, France – 13 and 14 May 2009
More about the festival Sens Interdits: http://www.sensinterdits.org/spip.php?article21
Croatian theatre troupe Shadow Casters will attend one of most prestigious festival in region Bitef with the perfomance Vocation from History writen and directed by Boris Bakal and Katarina Pejovic.
About production: Having won the special prize for its performance Ex-position at 41st Bitef 2007, the theatre troupe from Zagreb comes to this year’s Bitef with the performance Vacation from History. It is questionable, though, if it could be called a performance after all: it contains neither a story nor any visible acting. It is all about letting the audience immerse themselves in a dreamlike state and the free imagination about “the intimate history which caresses us since the real one has driven us crazy”, as the theatre critic Bojan Munjin has put it, with a conclusion that it is “so sincere, deep and remedial that it is worth more than a season’s repertoire”.
Authors and Performers: Damir Klemenic, Jelena Lopatic, Bojan Navojec, Marija Skaricic, Stanko Juzbasic, Katarina Pejovic, Boris Bakal. Collaborators: Zeljko Zorica, Barbara Blasin, Stjepan Filipec, Martina Franic, Ognjen Bogojevic, Milan Zerjav, Iva Aras.
About festival: Founded in 1967, Bitef has continually followed and supported the latest theatre trends, becoming thus one of the biggest and the most important European festivals. Transcending all political and cultural borders, in more then four decades Bitef has managed to keep its pace with a tumultuous evolution of performing arts. Thus, one could identify the history of Bitef as a history of contemporary theatre.
Through the revolutionary Sixties and Seventies, Bitef spectators could see some of the most courageous stage experiments pursuing the destruction of dramatic forms, but also some significant classical achievements, as well as the examples of the traditional Oriental theatre. In the Eighties and Nineties, Bitef has presented highest reaches of the post-modern theatre and dance. Even in the conditions of political-economic crisis and embargo the festival succeeded to promote ultimate cultural values, bringing to Belgrade some of the biggest names of the world performance. In the first decade of the 21st century, Bitef presents the original and innovative productions of the world mainstream theatre, the performances of post-dramatic, non verbal expression, as well as those realised with new technologies, thus opening its doors to the virtual reality of cyber theatre.
In the course of all these years, Bitef has preserved its place in the family of major international festivals. For its continuity and quality Bitef was awarded the Special Prize for 1999. by Premio Europa.
When: Performance will be on on 20.09. at 17:00; 23:00 and on 21.09. at 17:00; 23:00
Where: Cvijeta Zuzoric Pavilion
Duration : 100 min.
Radio version of Tena Stivicic play Fireflies was produced by BBC Radio last week. It was directed by Peter Kavanagh.
Tena Stivicic is one of most sucessful Croatian playwright. She was born in Zagreb and studied at Academy of Dramatic Arts there. She completed an MA in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College, Universtiy of London. Her plays have been produced in 12 European countries.
About play: chance encounters and strange revelations abound as six people wait in a weather-stricken airport.
MORE ABOUT PRODUCTION:
Martin …… James Fleet
Clara …… Helena Breck
Olga …… Lizzy Watts
Oliver …… David Hargreaves
Jeanne …… Annabelle Dowler
Nate …… Stephen Hogan
Customs Officer/Felipe (bartender) …… Benjamin Askew
Loud speaker announcer/Charles …… Philip Fox
Music composed and peformed by Russell Taylor and Steve Cooke.
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
Broadcast on:
BBC Radio 4, 2:15pm Thursday 3rd September 2009
Duration:
45 minutes
Available until:
3:02pm Thursday 10th September 2009
You can listen play till 10th September on this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mcvyc/Afternoon_Play_Fireflies/
Croatian playwrights Lana Saric and Ivor Martinic will participate at the Festival de dramaturgia Europea Contemporanea in Santiago, Chile. It’s festival that present best contemporary European plays.
Stage reading of Ivor Martinic play The title of the drama about Ante is Written here will be directed by Heidrun Breier at 2nd of September and production of Lana Saric play Skyscraper will be directed by Ricardo Balic and 4th of September. After both events there will be conversation with the authors.
Lana Saric is well known Croatian playwright and director. For her play Skyscraper she was given the Marin Drzic award by the Croatian Ministry of Culture. Other plays include: Ifigenia, Robot and I and Flesh.
Ivor Martinic is award-winning Croatian Playwright. For his play Simply: (unhappy) he was given the Marin Drzic award (main Croatian drama award) by the Croatian Ministry of Culture. For play The Title of the Drama About Ante is Written Here he won the Fabriqué en Croatie award by the REZ association. The play was produced by City Theatre Split in May 2009.
At this link you can find more about the festival: http://www.festivaldramaturgiaeuropea.cl/inicio.php
The Domino Teatar from Vilnius in Lithuania will give a premiere performance of Miro Gavran comedy MY WIFE’S HUSBAND, directed by Kostad Dmorginas, on September 9. The leading roles will be played by Jolanta Dapkunaite, Juozas Gaiauskas and Vytautas Apranauskas.
Miro Gavran work has been translated in 40 languages, his books have gone through more than 130 editions at home and abroad, and he is the most prolific and frequently performed Croatian writer.
At this link ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng-bbquvrow ) you can find short clip from Italian production of Ivana Sajko play Woman Bomb (Donna bomba). It’s directed and acted by famouse Italian actrees Chiara Tomarelli. Opening of the play was at 15 February 2008. at Theatro Sala Uno, and production is still very popular in Italy.
Ivana Sajko is the author of 12 plays that have been produced for both stage and radio. Her plays were translated in several languages and staged in Croatia, Australia, Germany, Italia, Latvia, Switzerland, Republic of Macedonia and The Netherlands.
ZKM will perform Tena Stivicic play Seven Days in Zagreb on 10th and 11th July at the International Theatre Festival in Stuttgart (Germany). It’s a final destination of project Orient Express.
More about project: In May 2008, Zagreb Youth Theatre became a member of the European Theatre Convention and there joined the Orient Express Theatre Project, which brings together sixtheatres from Turkey, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Germany. The goal of the Orient Express project is to create a traveling theatre laboratory, a place for theatre experimentation of “the other” and “the different”, questioning identity on the way from Istanbul through southeastern Europe – the place where East and West meet. The theatre train started from Istanbul in the spring of 2009 and over the next two months it will stop at railway stations in the above countries, where it will stage performances both from the host country and from the country that was its previous stop. The Performance Seven Days in Zagreb deals with the obssessive motives of the transitional period of this time and opens up the contemporary subjects and questions about the feminine and social issues.
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