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| + | Every Autumn since [[established::1966]], various Slovene theatres have met in Maribor at the [[Borštnik Theatre Festival]], organised by and held at the [[Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Maribor]]. This most prestigious theatre event is the largest annual review of Slovene theatre production. In addition to repertory theatres from Maribor, Ljubljana, Nova Gorica, Celje, Kranj, Koper, and Trieste, selected independent theatre productions are also presented. The festival also awards the [[Borštnik Ring Award and Borštnik Awards|Borštnik Ring Award]], the highest award for lifetime achievement in Slovene theatre, which is given to an actor or actress who has left a major legacy to the Slovene stage. | ||
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The festival took place for the first time in 1966 under the name Slovene Drama Week and was re-named Borštnik Meeting in 1972. 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 90s 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.
Each year, 10 to 12 new performances are presented in the competition programme of the Borštnik Theatre Festival. 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 for best performance is presented.
Although the programme includes only domestic performances, the festival aims for an internationalisation of its activities. By organising international symposia and discussions, and inviting foreign performances and theatre experts, the festival has set to position itself on the international theatre map.
44. Festival Borštnikovo srečanje by SNG Maribor on YouTube
The 2009 festival's programme was selected by Barbara Orel, theatre critic and theoretician. The jury also included two foreign experts, with which the festival aims to contribute to the objectivity of the selection process.
The festival also hosted the legendary German director Peter Stein who made an appearance with the pianist Arturo Annecchino in the recital Faust Fantasia (Melologue for voice and piano) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as well as the performance The Doll Ship, directed by the young and talented Ana Tomović and produced by the Serbian National Theatre Novi Sad, which won an award for best performance at the 2009 Sterijino Pozorje Festival, as well as hosted two international symposia, namely, Art, Culture, City, organised by the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers, 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.
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