Špas Theatre collaborates with stage directors and professional actors from various Slovene theatre houses, including Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana, Slovene National Theatre Maribor, Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica and Mladinsko Theatre. Its repertoire has included plays by Kovačević (The Balkan Spy), Agatha Christie (The Mousetrap), Camoletti (Boeing Boeing) and Ray Conney (Funny Money) as well as musical drama such as The Cat in the Boots, directed by Vito Taufer with text by Andrej Rozman Roza. Up to 2007 Špas Theatre had produced 15 shows, each of which played for more than 100 performances.
Špas Theatre offers a subscription series that includes its own productions as well as some guest performances from national theatre houses. Performances are staged in Mengeš but are also toured to other Slovene towns, most regularly at Vrhnika, Portorož, Žalec, Maribor, Krško, Zagorje and Bled.
Špas Theatre was awarded various prizes at the 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2005 Days of Comedy festivals, and its prize-winning performances were subsequently staged at prestigious national performing arts festivals such as the Borštnik Theatre Festival in Maribor and Slovene Drama Week in Kranj.
External links
- Špas Theatre website (in Slovenian)