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The festival took place for the first time in 1966 under the name Slovene Drama Week and was named Borštnik Meeting in 1972. Prior to 1990 the festival was held also 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 most representative theatre productions. The 90s saw the protest of numerous independent theatre producers and makers, arguing that with the existing conceptually closed orientation the festival does not present the actual theatre production nor acknowledge the variety of aesthetics, poetics, approaches, and procedures.
Since 1994, the selector of the festival is given a two-year mandate. 2008 and 2009 festivals were selected by Barbara Orel. The jury usually comprises four to five persons (critics, directors, writers, theoreticians, artists, etc.). The Borštnik Ring Award receiver is selected by a different jury.
The festival is named after Ignacij Borštnik, 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 most demanding roles, especially from turn-of-the-century modernist realism.
The Meeting also includes awards for best show, director, actor, musical score and other artistic categories, plus the
Various exhibitions of theatre photographs and stage set drawings and performances by secondary school theatre groups accompany the event.
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