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 while striving 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 relying heavily on the category of "emancipated spectatorship" and the theatrical-philosophical ideas, concepts, principles and methods of Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud and Alain Badiou.
APT produces four premieres annually. 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.
Awards and additional programme
The theatre's productions appear at acclaimed domestic theatre festivals, such as the Maribor Theatre Festival, the Week of Slovenian Drama, the Golden Stick Festival, etc. APT's co-production with the Bologna-based Teatri di Vita, Italy, Portrait of a Lady (Portret neke gospe), directed by Matjaž Berger, won two awards at the 2009 Borštnik Theatre Festival, while the performance The Serfs: An Annotated Edition received two awards at the Week of Slovenian Drama. APT was also awarded the Little Golden Stick Awards at the biennial Golden Stick Festival for the production of Livingston's Last Kiss, a synthesis of theatre and electronic art, directed by Nana Milčinski and featuring the rock band Siddharta.
In addition to its performing arts and educational activities, APT also organises an art cinema programme, partly carried out in cooperation with Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe), which also hosts round tables with filmmakers and different thinkers.
See also
External links
- Anton Podbevšek Theatre website (in Slovenian)
- Anton Podbevšek on Wikipedia
- Collected poems by Anton Podbevšek – with facsimiles and commentary