Anton Podbevšek Theatre
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28 Aug 2024
"Beograjski Trio - Belgrade trio", a theatre play adapted after Goran Marković's eponymous novel. Directed by Matjaž Berger and produced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre in cooperation with Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre.
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22 Feb 2024
"Invisible Woman", a stage adaptation of a collection of short stories by Slavenka Drakulić, directed by Ivana Djilas. Produced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre.
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21 Aug 2021
Andrej Inkret's And the century will blush. The Kocbek Case directed by Matjaž Berger, produced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre
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20 Jun 2021
21 Jun 2021
Three Sisters directed by Gregor Luštek, coproduced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre and Dance Theatre Ljubljana, Inter-View Multigenre and Multigenerational performance for four dancers with texts by Žigan Krajnčan and Andreja Kopač
at the Laiks Dejot Festival
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22 Aug 2020
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30 Sep 2018
Croatia Mljet Mljet National Park
The performance Janez Vrečko: KONS:O:VEL, directed by Matjaž Berger and produced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre and Studia humanitatis in cooperation with Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre,
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25 Aug 2018
The performance The Triple Life of Antigone, written by Slavoj Žižek and directed by Matjaž Berger, produced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre in cooperation with Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre,
at the Korčula Summer Festival
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1 Oct 2017
Slavoj Žižek’s The Triple Life of Antigone, a theatre performance directed by Matjaž Berger and produced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre,
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27 Aug 2017
Heraklit/Zenon: Time is a child playing with droughts: The lordship is to the child, produced by the Anton Podbevšek Theatre,
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13 May 2017
Georgij Gospodinov's The Physics of Sorrow, directed by Tjaša Črnigoj and performed by the ensemble of the Anton Podbevšek Theatre,
at the Tararabumbiya Festival
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10 Dec 2015
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12 May 2015
13 May 2015
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11 Sep 2013
Welcome to the Spiritual Kingdom of Animals, a play based on Slavoj Žižek's writings and produced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre,
A Theatre of Thought
APT aims to develop its activities as a visual institute that articulates contemporary performing arts, theoretical discourse and theatre pedagogy and strives to make engaged and challenging contemporary theatre that surpasses the distinction between popular and elite culture.
Building on the concept of theatre as a form of thought, APT focuses on producing primarily post-dramatic but also dramatic, dance, musical and children's performances. Its productions, often synthesising literature, dance, music, architecture, painting, and film, seek to take risks by exploring different genres codes and contemporary performing arts methods, while reliying heavily on the category of emancipated spectatorship and the theatrical-philosophical ideas of Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud and Alain Badiou.
APT produces four premieres annualy. It regularly premieres new works by Matjaž Berger, collaborates with a number of theatre directors and choreographers of younger generations such as Nejc Gazvoda, Bara Kolenc, Jana Menger, Matjaž Pograjc, Gregor Luštek, etc. and occasionally enters co-productions with other cultural producers such as Dance Theatre Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre, etc.
Additional programme
Anton Podbevšek Theatre also hosts performances of different Slovene theatre and dance producers, such as Slovene People’s Theatre (SLG) Celje, DUM Association of Artists, Maska Institute, EnKnapGroup (EKG), Betontanc, etc., as well as organises other cultural and social events. In addition to its performing arts and educational activities, APT also organises an art cinema programme and runs a photographic gallery.
International cooperation
In 2008, APT entered its first international co-production with the Theatre City Festival Budva, Monte Negro. The performance Kadmopolis – a Look From the Distance [Kadmopolis – Udaljeni pogled], directed by Matjaž Berger, investigates the myths of the emergence of settlements in the Mediterranean area, interweaving them with fragments from texts by Beckett, Hegel, Sartre, Eluard, and Pavić. In 2009, APT co-produced with the Bologna-based Teatri di Vita, Italy, the performance Portrait of a Lady [Portret neke gospe], directed by Matjaž Berger, which won two awards at the Borštnik Theatre Festival in Maribor in 2009: Matjaž Berger received the Borštnik Award for the unique performing discourse and Peter Penko for best musical score. In 2009, APT co-produced EnKnapGroup's production 10 Min East [10 minut vzhodno], comprised of 5 choreographic miniatures. The performance was co-produced also by the Workshop Foundation, Hungary; the Zagreb Dance Ensemble, Croatia; and the Slovene National Theatre Maribor.
APT Academy
APT also launched an interdisciplinary programme of reflection on the arts in general and the contemporary theatre discourse in particular. Aiming to inform the viewer with topical reflections as well as to prepare him for new modes of presentation, APT is developing 2 models. It organises colloquia and symposiums, thematically related to APT's theatre projects, which commonly host philosophers, theatre researchers, directors, and translators, and a weekly educational programme for the Novo mesto secondary school population, offering knowledge about the basic paradigms of 20th-century theatre practices through practical insights.
See also
External links
- Anton Podbevšek Theatre website (in Slovenian)
- Anton Podbevšek on Wikipedia
- Collected poems by Anton Podbevšek – with facsimiles and commentary