Festival Borštnikovo srečanje
Slovenska 27, SI-2000 Maribor
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Organised bySlovene National Theatre Maribor
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Maribor Theatre Festival
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History
The festival took place for the first time in 1966 under the name Slovene Drama Week and was re-named Borštnik Meeting in 1972 (today its Slovene name still means the same, but it has lately come to be known as the Maribor Theatre Festival in English). Prior to 1990 the festival was also held in other Slovene towns; in the 90s there were several unsuccessful attempts to move the festival from Maribor to Ljubljana. Until 1992 all professional Slovene theatres presented at least one production at the festival's competition programme, with independent productions appearing only in the off-programme. Subsequently, the selection became more rigorous, including only the most representative theatre productions. The 1990s saw the protest of numerous independent theatre producers and makers, arguing that with the festival's existing conceptually-closed orientation, it did not present the actual theatre production nor acknowledge the variety of aesthetics, poetics, approaches, and procedures.
Since 1994, the selector of the festival has been given a two-year mandate. The jury usually comprises four to five persons (critics, directors, writers, theoreticians, artists, etc.). The Borštnik Ring Award recipient is selected by a different jury.
The festival is named after Ignacij Borštnik (1858–1919), director, actor, playwright, translator, and the founder of the Slovene artistic theatre. He was the first Slovene theatre director in the modern sense of the word, and a master craftsman of the most demanding roles, especially from turn-of-the-century modernist realism.
Programme
Each year, 10 to 12 new performances are presented in the selected competition programme of the Maribor Theatre Festival (two recent selectors were Barbara Orel and Gregor Butala, in 2012 it will be Primož Jesenko). These stagings compete for the following awards: best performance, best director, best actor, best young actor, other achievements (set design, costume design, light design, musical score, and other artistic categories), plus the award for innovation and aesthetic breakthrough, and the Dominik Smole Award, awarded for best original dramatic text or best translation, dramatisation, or adaptation. At the festival an award of the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia for best performance is presented.
The other performances at the Maribor Theatre Festival are presented in three sections: Generations (7 performances), Bridges (5 performances), and Showcase (10 performances). The Generations section addresses the younger audiences, while the Bridges present invited international performances. The showcased Slovene performances, however, are selected by the artistic director Alja Predan and addressed to an international professional audience.
The 2010 edition offered the richest programme so far – 47 performances, 35 other events, 500 artists, 40 experts, and over 8,000 visitors.
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International symposia and conferences
In 2009 the festival hosted the first two international symposia, namely, Art, Culture, City, organised by the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia, which focused on the role of the city in the context of its artistic production, highlighting the forthcoming project Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012, and the symposium co-organised with the Slovene Centre of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) entitled The Intertwining of the Festivals of the Western Balkans, featuring 15 international panellists.
In 2010 the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia co-organised in collaboration with the international network of theatre critics AICT/IATC a conference on Inter-Criticism. The International Theatre Institute (ITI) prepared a symposium on Dramaturgy Between the Reality and Vision: Role of Dramaturgy – The Key for Theatre-making Process.
See also
External links
- Maribor Theatre Festival website
- Slovene National Theatre Maribor website
- Article on 2009 Festival by Albert Kos (pdf), Sinfo Magazine (pp. 22)
- Almanac of the 44th Maribor Theatre Festival
- Ignacij Borštnik on Wikipedija (in Slovenian)
- Interview with the festival director Alja Predan from Misli slovensko STA website
- Article by Mark Brown about the 2012 festival, originally published in the Sunday Herald
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Every autumn since 1966, various Slovene theatres have gathered in Maribor for the Maribor Theatre Festival (known in Slovene as Borštnikovo srečanje). +
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