EPI Centre

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Zavod EPI center

Prisojna 1, SI-1000 Ljubljana

Phone386 (0) 1 544 4155

The Elizabeth Project Ideas Centre (EPI Centre) was established in 1997 by the theatre director Sebastijan Horvat and set designer Petra Veber. The group of renowned artists who work within the framework of EPI Centre continuously seek new collaborators and new ideas related to innovative drama theatre, with a focus on the epic and the poetic, the image and the body, and philosophy. EPI Centre's last production was the highly praised dance-theatre performance Utopia [Utopija] (2008), which opens up questions about the possibilities of an ideal world in contemporary society.

The centre aims to operate in line with the basic ideas of "performance first": minimalism, reduction, and the limiting of theatrical expression. Verbal and artistic languages are accorded equal status: every project deals with a literary model and a visual concept, which are created anew. The first performance was the eponymous Elizabeth Project [Elizabeth] (1997), and in 1998 the Centre produced its second show Ion, which won an award at the Week of Slovenian Drama in Kranj. Horvat's productions Instruction [Inštrukcija] (1995), Ion, Ionesco's Macbett [Makbet] (1999), and Sharpen Your Senses (2000) divided both critics as well as the Slovene public. In 2005, Horvat received the Montblanc Young Directors Project Award at the Salzburg Festival for his direction of Vladimir Bartol's Alamut.

EPI Centre's past productions include: School Notebook [Šolski zvezek] (2003), directed by Ivana Djilas, Still Life [Tihožitje] (2004), conceived by the stage director Jernej Lorenci, and Oidipus [Ojdip] by Jaka Ivanc. In co-production with Ljubljana Dance Theatre (PTL), EPI Centre has staged choreographies by Matjaž Farič, Snježana Premuš, Valentina Čabro, and Ariella Vidach. EPI Centre's performances are often co-produced by Ptuj City Theatre, Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Maribor, Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Ljubljana - Drama, Mladinsko Theatre, Glej Theatre and Ljubljana Dance Theatre (PTL).

EPI Centre productions have also appeared at several festivals, including the Mladi levi Festival and the Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in Ljubljana, Neighbouring Voices in Bulgaria, the New European Theatre Festival in Moscow, the Biennial Festival of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, the Four Days in Motion Festival in Prague and the Mittelfest in Cividale, Italy.