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Mini Teater
Križevniška 1, SI-1000 Ljubljana
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Robert Waltl, Festival Director, Artistic Director and Programme Selector



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Mini Theatre 2013 Divjad.jpgThe creators of the performance Divjad (Game) Aljaž Jovanovič, Tina Vrbnjak, Jurij Drevenšek, Nejc Gazvoda (director), Ajda Smrekar, Matej Puc and Maruša Majer), Mini Theatre, 2013.

Mini Theatre was founded in 1999 by the actor and puppeteer Robert Waltl and director Ivica Buljan with the purpose to enhance creativity in post-dramatic theatre and in theatre for the young. The company holds a small hall at Ljubljana Castle where puppet and theatre performances for children, youth, and adults are presented. A new theatre hall at Križevniška Street in the old city centre of Ljubljana opened in 2009.



Mini Theatre 2014 Kako ujeti zvezdo.JPGThe puppet performance How to Catch a Star directed by Ágnes Kuthy, text and dramaturgy Dóra Gimesi, produced by Mini Theatre, 2014.


Programme

Mini Theatre regularly participates in major Slovene theatre festivals, it has received awards several times at the Borštnik Theatre Festival and at the Slovene Puppetry Biennial as well as from the Slovenian Association of Dramatic Artists. Mini Theatre organises also the Mini Summer - International Festival for Children and the annual Medieval Days or Festival of Medieval and Renaissance Music that takes place at the Ljubljana Castle, as well as some other open-air locations.

Since 2013 the programme of the Jewish Cultural Centre Ljubljana takes place at the Križevniška 1.

Puppetry

Mini Theatre's produces quality puppet performances for children and adults as well as drama theatre performances in cooperation with artists from different artistic environments, staging about 500 performances in Slovenia and abroad annually.

The Mini Theatre puppetry performances of various genres cover all eminent authors, e.g. Little Red Riding Hood by Brothers Grimm and Caliph Stork by Wilhelm Hauff, The Mishmash Bakery [Pekarna Mišmaš] by the Slovene poet Svetlana Makarovič, The Wishing Table by Brothers Grimm and Marek Becka, and The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen and Robert Waltl.

In 2004, Mini Theatre staged Pushkin's The Tale of Tsar Saltan [Car Saltan], which was directed by the prominent director Alexander Anurov, it collaborated twice with Aleksei Leliavski, who directed Pushkin's Little Tragedies [Male tragedije] and the 2010 staging of Cinderella [Pepelka], produced in the frame of the project Puppet Nomad Academy.

Post-drama theatre

The theatre produces acted contemporary theatre performances for adults and youth within its "Post-drama Theatre" section, working with Slovene and international stage directors and actors, such as Robert Waltl, Ivica Buljan, Philippe Calvario, Jaka Ivanc, etc. Next to staging Slovene texts (preferably from Slovene national heritage), Mini Theatre's programme promotes contemporary world drama texts for adults as well as develops new approaches in directing.

Some of the most-recognised drama performances by Mini Theatre include Quartet [Kvartet] by Heiner Mueller, Mad About Vincent by Hervé Guibert, Heiner Mueller's Macbeth After Shakespeare [Macbeth po Shakespearu] (2009), co-produced by Cankarjev dom and ZeKaM, Croatia, which was awarded the best performance at the 2009 Maribor Theatre Festival, Jackie by Elfriede Jelinek, co-produced by New Theatre Zagreb, Croatia and Bernard-Marie Koltès' and The Night Just Before the Forests [Noč čisto na robu gozdov] (2009) co-produced by ARL Dubrovnik and New Theatre Zagreb, Croatia, all three performances were directed by Ivica Buljan. In 2010 Ingmar Bergman's Persona (2010) was directed by Janez Pipan, while in 2011 the Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener [Bartleby pisar] (2011), directed by Miloš Lolić, got the best performance award at the Maribor Theatre Festival.

Mini Theatre's venue at Križevniška Street also hosts performances of other producers, concerts, and exhibitions.

Festivals

Behind the ancient walls of the Ljubljana Castle, Mini Theatre organises the "Summer Castle Afternoons". It also annually organises two festivals: the Mini Summer - International Festival for Children and since 2005 the Festival of Medieval and Renaissance Music.

Mini Summer - International Festival for Children 2014 opening.jpgOpening of the Mini Summer - International Festival for Children, organised by Mini Theatre, 2014

International cooperation

Mini Theatre regularly collaborates with internationally renowned theatre makers and puppeteers: in 2005 Mini Theatre collaborated with WaxFactory, New York, on a multimedia production She Said... with a soundtrack by Random Logic.

Mini Theatre's partners are New Theatre Zagreb (Croatia), ARL Dubrovnik (Croatia), ZeKaeM - Zagreb Youth Theatre (Croatia), Zadar of Dreams International Festival (Croatia), Teatar ITD (Croatia), and Croatian National Theatre Rijeka, with which Mini Theatre regularly enters co-productions. The theatre's activity (also the adaptation of the venue at Križevniška Street) is supported by a grant from Iceland, Lichtenstein, and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norway Financial Mechanism. Since 2009, Mini Theatre is involved in the international project of workshop exchange Puppet Nomad Academy, which is supported by the Culture Programme of the European Commission.

In the time of its activity, Mini Theatre has appeared worldwide at international festivals over 180 times. The performances were performed in Italy, Egypt, Venezuela, Denmark, USA, Austria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Belgium, United Kingdom, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, etc. In November 2011 the performance Macbeth After Shakespeare was staged at the renowned La MaMa Experimenatal Theatre in New York.


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Founded in 1999 by the actor and puppeteer Robert Waltl and director Ivica Buljan, Mini Theatre is an award-winning repertory theatre engaged in post-dramatic theatre and theatre for the young. +
Founded in 1999 by the actor and puppeteer Robert Waltl and director Ivica Buljan, Mini Theatre is an award-winning repertory theatre engaged in post-dramatic theatre and theatre for the young. +
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