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[[Mladinsko Theatre]] (Slovensko mladinsko gledališče or SGM) is one of two municipal theatres in Ljubljana and is considered to be a laboratory for actors and directors, choreographers and musicians to research and develop, risk and create. Throughout its history, Mladinsko has collaborated with the reformers of the Slovene theatre of the second half of the 20th century. Mladinsko Theatre's recent premières were: Sarah Kane's text ''Crave'' [Sla] directed by  [[Vito Taufer]], and a stage adaptation of Anthony Burgess' cult novel ''A Clockwork Orange'' [Peklenska pomaranča], directed by [[Matjaž Pograjc]], both house stage directors of Mladinsko Theatre. The theatre regularly tours worldwide and was awarded the title European Ambassador of Culture by European Commission in 2008.
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[[Mladinsko Theatre]] (Slovensko mladinsko gledališče) is one of two municipal theatres in Ljubljana and is considered to be a laboratory for actors and directors, choreographers and musicians to research and develop, risk and create. Throughout its history, Mladinsko has collaborated with the reformers of the Slovene theatre of the second half of the 20th century. The theatre regularly tours worldwide and was awarded the title European Ambassador of Culture by European Commission in 2008.  
  
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Through its current projects the theatre is dealing with the 'symptomisation' of the society, showing the detected symptoms via appropriate performative procedures. For this reason, public space becomes a performance space as well.
 
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==History==
 
==History==
  
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Mladinsko Theatre was established in [[Established::1955]] as the first professional theatre for children and youth in Slovenia. Although Mladinsko Theatre's productions of its first decade aimed at younger audiences with the stagings of adaptations of classical as well as domestic youth literature, the theatre's first director [[Balbina Battelino Baranovič]] (who established in 1955 also the first experimental theatre in Slovenia, introducing the theatre-in-the-round principle) succeeded to professionalise the theatre's activities and also include into the theatre's programme productions intended for a wider audience. Thus in the 1960s and 70s, Mladinsko collaborated with distinguished Slovene directors, such as Mile Korun, Dušan Jovanović, etc., in which time its productions and actors were gaining wide recognition, exemplified also by several prominent awards. For example, Mile Korun's staging of Aurand Harris's ''Androcles and the Lion'' [Androkles in lev] (1973) brought to the theatre the first [[Borštnik Ring Award and Borštnik Awards|Borštnik Award]] for best performance in 1973.
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Mladinsko Theatre was established in [[Established::1955]] as the first professional theatre for children and youth in Slovenia. Although Mladinsko Theatre's productions of its first decade aimed at younger audiences with the stagings of adaptations of classical as well as domestic youth literature, the theatre's first director [[Balbina Battelino Baranovič]] (who established in 1955 also the first experimental theatre in Slovenia, introducing the theatre-in-the-round principle) succeeded to professionalise the theatre's activities and also include into the theatre's programme productions intended for a wider audience. Thus in the 1960s and 70s, Mladinsko collaborated with distinguished Slovene directors, such as Mile Korun, Dušan Jovanović, etc.During this period its productions and actors were gaining wide recognition, exemplified also by several prominent awards. For example, Mile Korun's staging of Aurand Harris's ''Androcles and the Lion'' [Androkles in lev] (1973) brought to the theatre the first [[Borštnik Ring Award and Borštnik Awards|Borštnik Award]] for best performance in 1973.
  
 
In the 1980s Mladinsko Theatre initiated a unique interdisciplinary stage research and its productions (''Victims of the Bang Bang Fashion'' [Žrtve mode bum-bum] (1975), ''Missa in a minor'' [Maša v a molu] (1980), ''The Class Enemy'' [Razredni sovražnik] (1982), ''Romeo and Juliet – Commentaries'' [Romeo in Julija – komentarji] (1983), ''The Persians'' [Peržani] (1980), ''Anna'' [Ana] (1984), etc.) were widely acclaimed during the 1980s for their political engagement as well as for their innovative approach to ''mise-en-scène''. The performance ''Victims of the Bang Bang Fashion'', directed by [[Dušan Jovanović]], who was the artistic director of Mladinsko Theatre in the 1980s, put Mladinsko Theatre on the international map of experimental theatres.  
 
In the 1980s Mladinsko Theatre initiated a unique interdisciplinary stage research and its productions (''Victims of the Bang Bang Fashion'' [Žrtve mode bum-bum] (1975), ''Missa in a minor'' [Maša v a molu] (1980), ''The Class Enemy'' [Razredni sovražnik] (1982), ''Romeo and Juliet – Commentaries'' [Romeo in Julija – komentarji] (1983), ''The Persians'' [Peržani] (1980), ''Anna'' [Ana] (1984), etc.) were widely acclaimed during the 1980s for their political engagement as well as for their innovative approach to ''mise-en-scène''. The performance ''Victims of the Bang Bang Fashion'', directed by [[Dušan Jovanović]], who was the artistic director of Mladinsko Theatre in the 1980s, put Mladinsko Theatre on the international map of experimental theatres.  
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However, the complete aesthetic break was brought about with the performance ''Missa in A Minor'', directed by Ljubiša Ristić, who staged an original montage of Danilo Kiš's text ''A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'' with fragments from political texts of Lenin, Trotsky, Proudhon, Bakunin, etc., thus departing from the traditional relation between the literary text and theatre. This gesture constituted a new understanding of theatre and proved to be decisive for the general orientation of Mladinsko Theatre in the future. By the end of the 1980s, Mladinsko Theatre production took a turn from making subversive, director-oriented theatre to making theatre by deconstructing modernist theatre traditions, a transition that was most notably epitomised by [[Vito Taufer]]'s dramatisation of Lewis Caroll's ''Alice in Wonderland'' [Alica v čudežni deželi] (1986), which combined the apparently incompatible: childlike sensibility and daredevil theatre experimentation.  
 
However, the complete aesthetic break was brought about with the performance ''Missa in A Minor'', directed by Ljubiša Ristić, who staged an original montage of Danilo Kiš's text ''A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'' with fragments from political texts of Lenin, Trotsky, Proudhon, Bakunin, etc., thus departing from the traditional relation between the literary text and theatre. This gesture constituted a new understanding of theatre and proved to be decisive for the general orientation of Mladinsko Theatre in the future. By the end of the 1980s, Mladinsko Theatre production took a turn from making subversive, director-oriented theatre to making theatre by deconstructing modernist theatre traditions, a transition that was most notably epitomised by [[Vito Taufer]]'s dramatisation of Lewis Caroll's ''Alice in Wonderland'' [Alica v čudežni deželi] (1986), which combined the apparently incompatible: childlike sensibility and daredevil theatre experimentation.  
  
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The production of the 1990s was marked by spectacle and intimacy, the aesthetic radicality approached the post-modernist theatre of images, while Mladinsko Theatre continued to work with stage directors whose dialogue with dramatic texts and personal poetics was inventive and avant-garde (Matjaž Pograjc, Vito Taufer). The last turn in Mladinsko Theatre production was introduced at the turn of the 21st century by the youngest generation of directors (Diego de Brea, Tomi Janežič, Jernej Lorenci), who again brought to the focus the dramatic text. In its productions, Mladinsko Theatre continues to thematise the universal paradoxes of civilisation, its programme being founded in problematisations of new times and spaces.  
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The production of the 1990s was marked by spectacle and intimacy, the aesthetic radicality approached the post-modernist theatre of images, while Mladinsko Theatre continued to work with stage directors whose dialogue with dramatic texts and personal poetics was inventive and avant-garde (Matjaž Pograjc, Vito Taufer). Another turn in Mladinsko Theatre production was introduced at the turn of the 21st century by the youngest generation of directors (Diego de Brea, Tomi Janežič, Jernej Lorenci), who again brought to the focus the dramatic text. In its productions, Mladinsko Theatre continues to thematise the universal paradoxes of civilisation, its programme being founded in problematisations of new times and spaces. By moving the experiment from the level of artistic expression into the field of civic action, Mladinsko is one of those exceptional theatre organisms that with their objectives often cause important effects in non-artistic discourse as well.  
  
 
In 2006 Mladinsko Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary, publishing an illustrated book about its history, entitled ''Has the Future Already Arrived?'' [Ali je prihodnost že prišla] (in English and in Slovenian editions).
 
In 2006 Mladinsko Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary, publishing an illustrated book about its history, entitled ''Has the Future Already Arrived?'' [Ali je prihodnost že prišla] (in English and in Slovenian editions).
  
 
===Youth programme===
 
===Youth programme===
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''Mladinsko'' in English means "youth". However, although the theatre has outgrown its primary role while keeping the name, Mladinsko Theatre has always included performances for children in its programme. These productions have met with great success and have toured extensively in Slovenia and abroad, winning also a number of Slovene and international awards. Vito Taufer's ''Alice in Wonderland'' [Alica v čudežni deželi] (1986) received the Golden Laurel Wreath Award at the 1988 MESS Festival in Sarajevo, his staging of ''Pippi'' [Pika] (1998) received the Silver Laurel Wreath Award for best children performance at the same festival in 2008 (after 10 strong years in the repertory). ''Pippi'', based on Astrid Lindgren's beloved Pippi Longstocking character, also won three [[Little Golden Stick Awards]] at the [[Golden Stick Festival]] in 1999 for Best Performance, Best Actress (to Janja Majzelj) and Special Award of the Jury (to Ivan Rupnik).  
 
''Mladinsko'' in English means "youth". However, although the theatre has outgrown its primary role while keeping the name, Mladinsko Theatre has always included performances for children in its programme. These productions have met with great success and have toured extensively in Slovenia and abroad, winning also a number of Slovene and international awards. Vito Taufer's ''Alice in Wonderland'' [Alica v čudežni deželi] (1986) received the Golden Laurel Wreath Award at the 1988 MESS Festival in Sarajevo, his staging of ''Pippi'' [Pika] (1998) received the Silver Laurel Wreath Award for best children performance at the same festival in 2008 (after 10 strong years in the repertory). ''Pippi'', based on Astrid Lindgren's beloved Pippi Longstocking character, also won three [[Little Golden Stick Awards]] at the [[Golden Stick Festival]] in 1999 for Best Performance, Best Actress (to Janja Majzelj) and Special Award of the Jury (to Ivan Rupnik).  
  
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Besides stagings of classical children stories, such as ''Snow White and Seven Dwarfs'' [Sneguljčica in sedem palčkov] (2003), which was selected as the best performance of 2005 in the Bologna-based Teatri di Vita, and ''Kekec'' (2004), based on the Slovene story about the adventurous, courageous, and kind shepherd Kekec, Mladinsko also stages performances for young adult audiences, most recently Mark Ravenhill's ''Totally Over You'' [Kok ti men zdej dol visiš] (2007).
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Besides stagings of classical children stories, such as ''Snow White and Seven Dwarfs'' [Sneguljčica in sedem palčkov] (2003), which was selected as the best performance of 2005 in the Bologna-based Teatri di Vita, and ''Kekec'' (2004), based on the Slovene story about the adventurous, courageous, and kind shepherd Kekec, or Kuzma the Gremlin Gets an Award [Škrat Kuzma dobi nagrado], based on a witty story by the legendary Slovene poet, writer and children's writer Svetlana Makarovič. Mladinsko also stages performances for young adult audiences, for example Mark Ravenhill's ''Totally Over You'' [Kok ti men zdej dol visiš] (2007).
  
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Since 2009, Mladinsko co-organises the Ljubljana-based festival of children education in culture and the arts called ''Bobri'' (in English: Beavers), featuring a number of theatre and music performances, a film programme, and workshops for children.
 
Since 2009, Mladinsko co-organises the Ljubljana-based festival of children education in culture and the arts called ''Bobri'' (in English: Beavers), featuring a number of theatre and music performances, a film programme, and workshops for children.
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==Programme==
 
==Programme==
  
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Mladinsko Theatre prepares around five new productions each year, some of them in co-operation with guest directors and in co-production with independent producers. Mladinsko's productions include adaptations of classical and contemporary texts (from Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' [Vihar] (2008) to Tena Štivičić's ''Fragile!'' (2005) or Sarah Kane's ''Blasted'' (2008) and ''Crave'' (2009) as well as projects by guest directors such as [[Dragan Živadinov]] or a puppetry author [[Silvan Omerzu]], and directing projects by actors of Mladinsko [[Ivan Peternelj]], [[Neda Rusjan Bric]] and [[Janja Majzelj]].  
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Mladinsko Theatre prepares around five new productions each year, some of them in co-operation with guest directors and in co-production with independent producers. Mladinsko's productions include adaptations of classical and contemporary texts (from Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' [Vihar] (2008) to Tena Štivičić's ''Fragile!'' (2005), Sarah Kane's ''Blasted'' [Razdejani] (2008) and ''Crave'' [Sla] (2009) or Elfriede Jelinek's Princess Dramas [Drame princes] (2015), as well as projects by guest directors such as [[Dragan Živadinov]] or a puppetry author [[Silvan Omerzu]], and directing projects by actors of Mladinsko [[Ivan Peternelj]], [[Neda Rusjan Bric]] and [[Janja Majzelj]].  
  
 
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The 2009/10 season, entitled "Art, Eros, Hope", presented six premières: a project by the uncompromising Croatian director Oliver Frljić and five texts (two of them commissioned by Mladinsko Theatre) staged for the first time in Slovenia. [[Vito Taufer]] presented his twenty-first direction in Mladinsko Theatre, namely ''Crave'' [Sla] by Sarah Kane, [[Ivan Peternelj]]'s project ''Amado mio'' by Pier Paolo Pasolini inspired by the novel, [[Vinko Möderndorfer]] directed the new play ''Šumi'' by the late [[Peter Božič]], a presentation of socially marginalised characters in the now-demolished Ljubljana café in which artists and philosophers used to gather, and [[Ivica Buljan]] presented his adaptation of Marina Tsvetaeva's ''The Swain'' [Vampir].
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Since 2007 the Mladinsko Theatre runs its own festival called [[Mladinsko Showcase]]: an overview of Mladinsko Theatre productions.
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Since 2007 the Mladinsko Theatre runs its own festival called [[Mladinsko Showcase]]: an overview of Mladinsko Theatre productions quite soon became an international manifestation with selected performances from abroad.
 
  
 
==International cooperation==
 
==International cooperation==
  
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Mladinsko Theatre regularly makes guest performances at international festivals worldwide (Nancy, Hamburg, Belgrade, London, Moscow, Essen, Cardiff, Lisbon, Madrid, Bogota, New York) and also hosts selected performances from other countries. Its most acclaimed performances have included ''Alice in Wonderland'', ''Drama Observatory Zenith'', ''Scheherezade'', ''Roberto Zucco'', ''Miss Juliet'', ''Silence Silence Silence'',  ''Queen Margot'', ''Fragile!'' and ''The Epic of Gilgamesh''.
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Mladinsko Theatre regularly makes guest performances at international festivals worldwide (Nancy, Hamburg, Belgrade, London, Moscow, Essen, Cardiff, Lisbon, Madrid, Bogota, New York) and also hosts selected performances from other countries. Its most acclaimed performances have included ''Alice in Wonderland'', ''Drama Observatory Zenith'', ''Scheherezade'', ''Roberto Zucco'', ''Miss Juliet'', ''Silence Silence Silence'',  ''Queen Margot'', ''Fragile!'', ''The Epic of Gilgamesh'', '''Crime and Punishment''', ''Damned Be the Traitor of His Homeland!'', ''Amado mio'', ''The Republic of Slovenia'' and ''Our Violence and Your Violence''.
  
 
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''Damned be the traitor of his homeland!'' by O.Frljić was presented at the ''International Small Scene Theatre Festival'' in Rijeka and at the ''Days of Satire'' festival at the Kerempuh Satirical Theatre in Zagreb, Croatia in 2010, and at the ''Perforations Festival'' at La MaMa Theatre, New York City, at the ''Nová dráma'' Festival in Bratislava, the ''Sterijino pozorje'' festival, Novi Sad, and the ''Stage'', Helsinki Theatre Festival.
 
  
 
==Venues==
 
==Venues==
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*'''performing area:''' [[performing area::8m W x 25m D x 3.15-4.47m H, flat stage floor suitable for dance]]
 
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*'''wing spaces:''' [[wing spaces::2m W SR, 2m W SL]]
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===International cooperation===
 
===International cooperation===
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* [http://www.etc-cte.org/ European Theatre Convention (ETC)]  
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* [https://www.ietm.org/ Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM)]
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* [http://eepap.culture.pl/ East European Performing Arts Platform (EEPAP)]
  
 
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Mladinsko Theatre 2010 Preklet naj bo izdajalec svoje domovine 01 Photo Ziga Koritnik.jpgTheatre performance Damned be the Traitor of his Homeland! by Oliver Frljić, Mladinsko Theatre, 2010

Mladinsko Theatre (Slovensko mladinsko gledališče) is one of two municipal theatres in Ljubljana and is considered to be a laboratory for actors and directors, choreographers and musicians to research and develop, risk and create. Throughout its history, Mladinsko has collaborated with the reformers of the Slovene theatre of the second half of the 20th century. The theatre regularly tours worldwide and was awarded the title European Ambassador of Culture by European Commission in 2008.

Through its current projects the theatre is dealing with the 'symptomisation' of the society, showing the detected symptoms via appropriate performative procedures. For this reason, public space becomes a performance space as well.


History

Mladinsko Theatre was established in 1955 as the first professional theatre for children and youth in Slovenia. Although Mladinsko Theatre's productions of its first decade aimed at younger audiences with the stagings of adaptations of classical as well as domestic youth literature, the theatre's first director Balbina Battelino Baranovič (who established in 1955 also the first experimental theatre in Slovenia, introducing the theatre-in-the-round principle) succeeded to professionalise the theatre's activities and also include into the theatre's programme productions intended for a wider audience. Thus in the 1960s and 70s, Mladinsko collaborated with distinguished Slovene directors, such as Mile Korun, Dušan Jovanović, etc.During this period its productions and actors were gaining wide recognition, exemplified also by several prominent awards. For example, Mile Korun's staging of Aurand Harris's Androcles and the Lion [Androkles in lev] (1973) brought to the theatre the first Borštnik Award for best performance in 1973.

In the 1980s Mladinsko Theatre initiated a unique interdisciplinary stage research and its productions (Victims of the Bang Bang Fashion [Žrtve mode bum-bum] (1975), Missa in a minor [Maša v a molu] (1980), The Class Enemy [Razredni sovražnik] (1982), Romeo and Juliet – Commentaries [Romeo in Julija – komentarji] (1983), The Persians [Peržani] (1980), Anna [Ana] (1984), etc.) were widely acclaimed during the 1980s for their political engagement as well as for their innovative approach to mise-en-scène. The performance Victims of the Bang Bang Fashion, directed by Dušan Jovanović, who was the artistic director of Mladinsko Theatre in the 1980s, put Mladinsko Theatre on the international map of experimental theatres.

However, the complete aesthetic break was brought about with the performance Missa in A Minor, directed by Ljubiša Ristić, who staged an original montage of Danilo Kiš's text A Tomb for Boris Davidovich with fragments from political texts of Lenin, Trotsky, Proudhon, Bakunin, etc., thus departing from the traditional relation between the literary text and theatre. This gesture constituted a new understanding of theatre and proved to be decisive for the general orientation of Mladinsko Theatre in the future. By the end of the 1980s, Mladinsko Theatre production took a turn from making subversive, director-oriented theatre to making theatre by deconstructing modernist theatre traditions, a transition that was most notably epitomised by Vito Taufer's dramatisation of Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland [Alica v čudežni deželi] (1986), which combined the apparently incompatible: childlike sensibility and daredevil theatre experimentation.

The production of the 1990s was marked by spectacle and intimacy, the aesthetic radicality approached the post-modernist theatre of images, while Mladinsko Theatre continued to work with stage directors whose dialogue with dramatic texts and personal poetics was inventive and avant-garde (Matjaž Pograjc, Vito Taufer). Another turn in Mladinsko Theatre production was introduced at the turn of the 21st century by the youngest generation of directors (Diego de Brea, Tomi Janežič, Jernej Lorenci), who again brought to the focus the dramatic text. In its productions, Mladinsko Theatre continues to thematise the universal paradoxes of civilisation, its programme being founded in problematisations of new times and spaces. By moving the experiment from the level of artistic expression into the field of civic action, Mladinsko is one of those exceptional theatre organisms that with their objectives often cause important effects in non-artistic discourse as well.

In 2006 Mladinsko Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary, publishing an illustrated book about its history, entitled Has the Future Already Arrived? [Ali je prihodnost že prišla] (in English and in Slovenian editions).

Youth programme

Mladinsko in English means "youth". However, although the theatre has outgrown its primary role while keeping the name, Mladinsko Theatre has always included performances for children in its programme. These productions have met with great success and have toured extensively in Slovenia and abroad, winning also a number of Slovene and international awards. Vito Taufer's Alice in Wonderland [Alica v čudežni deželi] (1986) received the Golden Laurel Wreath Award at the 1988 MESS Festival in Sarajevo, his staging of Pippi [Pika] (1998) received the Silver Laurel Wreath Award for best children performance at the same festival in 2008 (after 10 strong years in the repertory). Pippi, based on Astrid Lindgren's beloved Pippi Longstocking character, also won three Little Golden Stick Awards at the Golden Stick Festival in 1999 for Best Performance, Best Actress (to Janja Majzelj) and Special Award of the Jury (to Ivan Rupnik).

Besides stagings of classical children stories, such as Snow White and Seven Dwarfs [Sneguljčica in sedem palčkov] (2003), which was selected as the best performance of 2005 in the Bologna-based Teatri di Vita, and Kekec (2004), based on the Slovene story about the adventurous, courageous, and kind shepherd Kekec, or Kuzma the Gremlin Gets an Award [Škrat Kuzma dobi nagrado], based on a witty story by the legendary Slovene poet, writer and children's writer Svetlana Makarovič. Mladinsko also stages performances for young adult audiences, for example Mark Ravenhill's Totally Over You [Kok ti men zdej dol visiš] (2007). 

VSI JUNAKI ZBRANI - Slovensko mladinsko gledališče 2015 by Slovensko mladinsko gledališče on YouTube

Since 2009, Mladinsko co-organises the Ljubljana-based festival of children education in culture and the arts called Bobri (in English: Beavers), featuring a number of theatre and music performances, a film programme, and workshops for children.

Programme

Mladinsko Theatre prepares around five new productions each year, some of them in co-operation with guest directors and in co-production with independent producers. Mladinsko's productions include adaptations of classical and contemporary texts (from Shakespeare's The Tempest [Vihar] (2008) to Tena Štivičić's Fragile! (2005), Sarah Kane's Blasted [Razdejani] (2008) and Crave [Sla] (2009) or Elfriede Jelinek's Princess Dramas [Drame princes] (2015), as well as projects by guest directors such as Dragan Živadinov or a puppetry author Silvan Omerzu, and directing projects by actors of Mladinsko Ivan Peternelj, Neda Rusjan Bric and Janja Majzelj. 

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Amado mio by prodoktv on YouTube

Since 2007 the Mladinsko Theatre runs its own festival called Mladinsko Showcase: an overview of Mladinsko Theatre productions.

International cooperation

Mladinsko Theatre regularly makes guest performances at international festivals worldwide (Nancy, Hamburg, Belgrade, London, Moscow, Essen, Cardiff, Lisbon, Madrid, Bogota, New York) and also hosts selected performances from other countries. Its most acclaimed performances have included Alice in Wonderland, Drama Observatory Zenith, Scheherezade, Roberto Zucco, Miss Juliet, Silence Silence Silence, Queen Margot, Fragile!, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Crime and Punishment, Damned Be the Traitor of His Homeland!, Amado mio, The Republic of Slovenia and Our Violence and Your Violence. 

Obra: "Crimen y Castigo" - País: Eslovenia by FITBogotá on YouTube

Venues

The Mladinsko Theatre is found in Ljubljana's Bežigrad neighbourhood, occupying a part of Slovene architect Jože Plečnik's unfinished Akademski kolegij which was intended to be the Baraga Seminary. The theatre incorporates two venues – the Upper Hall (Zgornja dvorana) and the Lower Hall (Spodnja dvorana), however, some of Mladinsko performances are also held at the Old Post building in immediate vicinity of the theatre.

Upper Hall (Zgornja dvorana)

  • Type of venue: Multi-purpose hall
  • main use: theatre, puppetry, film, music
  • seating: 275 seats total
  • proscenium opening: 8m W x 4.4m H
  • performing area: 9m W x 12m D x 4.4m H flat wooden stage floor, suitable for dance
  • forestage: 2m D
  • wing spaces: 2m W SR, 2m W SL
  • soft hangings: black house curtain, black tabs, legs and borders
  • lighting: Euro system lighting desk, 500-1000W beamers
  • sound: Euro system mixer, power amplifiers and loudspeakers
  • stage equipment: 35mm projection equipment, cinema screen, technical staff available
  • backstage: dressing rooms for 40 persons total
  • climate control: air-conditioning
  • availability: available for hire

Lower Hall (Spodnja dvorana)

  • Type of venue: Multi-purpose hall (non-conventional space)
  • main use: theatre, puppetry, film, music
  • seating: 103 seats total
  • performing area: 8m W x 25m D x 3.15-4.47m H, flat stage floor suitable for dance
  • wing spaces: 2m W SR, 2m W SL
  • soft hangings: black house curtain, black tabs, legs and borders
  • lighting: Euro system lighting desk, 500-1000W beamers
  • sound: Euro system mixer, power amplifiers and loudspeakers
  • stage equipment: 35mm projection equipment, cinema screen, technical staff available
  • backstage: dressing rooms for 20 persons total
  • climate control: air-conditioning
  • availability: available for hire

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International cooperation

Gallery

Theatre performance Damned Be the Traitor of His Homeland! by Oliver Frljić, Maribor Theatre Festival, 2010.

Theatre performance Damned Be the Traitor of His Homeland! by Oliver Frljić, Maribor Theatre Festival, 2010.

Still from Pavla Nad Prepadom [Pavla Above the Precipice], a play inspired by the life of mountain climber Pavla Jesih, with the text for the play was written by Andrej E. Skubic. First staged in 2013, the play was featured at Mladinsko Showcase in 2015 (called Prelet at that time).

Still from Pavla Nad Prepadom [Pavla Above the Precipice], a play inspired by the life of mountain climber Pavla Jesih, with the text for the play was written by Andrej E. Skubic. First staged in 2013, the play was featured at Mladinsko Showcase in 2015 (called Prelet at that time).

A scene from Naše nasilje in vaše nasilje (Our Violence and Your Violence) by Oliver Frljić (HR). The play was chosen for the 2017 edition of the Mladinsko Showcase. Photo taken at Wiener Festwochen, where it premièred in 2016. The performance opened the Maribor Theatre Festival in 2017.

A scene from Naše nasilje in vaše nasilje (Our Violence and Your Violence) by Oliver Frljić (HR). The play was chosen for the 2017 edition of the Mladinsko Showcase. Photo taken at Wiener Festwochen, where it premièred in 2016. The performance opened the Maribor Theatre Festival in 2017.

A still from Republika Slovenija [The Republic of Slovenia], a docudrama about the arms trafficking events from the early years of Slovenia. Shown at Mladinsko Showcase in 2016 and that same year also given the Borštnik Jury Award.

A still from Republika Slovenija [The Republic of Slovenia], a docudrama about the arms trafficking events from the early years of Slovenia. Shown at Mladinsko Showcase in 2016 and that same year also given the Borštnik Jury Award.

Harris Aurand's Androcles and the Lion, directed by Mile Korun, Mladinsko Theatre, 1973

Harris Aurand's Androcles and the Lion, directed by Mile Korun, Mladinsko Theatre, 1973

Victims of the Bang Bang Fashion, directed by Dušan Jovanović (playwright & director), 1975. Foto arhiv SMG

Victims of the Bang Bang Fashion, directed by Dušan Jovanović (playwright & director), 1975. Foto arhiv SMG

Theatre performance Missa in a minor, directed by Ljubiša Ristić, Mladinsko Theatre, 1980

Theatre performance Missa in a minor, directed by Ljubiša Ristić, Mladinsko Theatre, 1980

Theatre performance Missa in a minor, directed by Ljubiša Ristić, Mladinsko Theatre, 1980

Theatre performance Missa in a minor, directed by Ljubiša Ristić, Mladinsko Theatre, 1980

Alice in Wonderland, directed by Vito Taufer, Mladinsko Theatre, 1986

Alice in Wonderland, directed by Vito Taufer, Mladinsko Theatre, 1986

Šeherezada, East West Opera, written by Ivo Svetina, directed by Tomaž Pandur, Mladinsko Theatre, 1989

Šeherezada, East West Opera, written by Ivo Svetina, directed by Tomaž Pandur, Mladinsko Theatre, 1989

Silence Silence Silence by Vito Taufer, Mladinsko Theatre, 1996

Silence Silence Silence by Vito Taufer, Mladinsko Theatre, 1996

Pippi, a performance directed by Vito Taufer, Mladinsko Theatre, 1998

Pippi, a performance directed by Vito Taufer, Mladinsko Theatre, 1998

Pika, featuring Janja Majzelj in the main role, directed by Vito Taufer, Mladinsko Theatre 1998

Pika, featuring Janja Majzelj in the main role, directed by Vito Taufer, Mladinsko Theatre 1998

Theatre performance Šumi, directed by Vinko Möderndorfer, Mladinsko Theatre, 2009

Theatre performance Šumi, directed by Vinko Möderndorfer, Mladinsko Theatre, 2009

Supremat, directed by Dragan Živadinov, Mladinsko Theatre, 2002

Supremat, directed by Dragan Živadinov, Mladinsko Theatre, 2002

Theatre performance Fragile!, directed by Matjaž Pograjc, Mladinsko Theatre, 2005

Theatre performance Fragile!, directed by Matjaž Pograjc, Mladinsko Theatre, 2005

Theatre performance Fragile!, written by Štivičić Tena and directed by Matjaž Pograjc, Mladinsko Theatre, 2005

Theatre performance Fragile!, written by Štivičić Tena and directed by Matjaž Pograjc, Mladinsko Theatre, 2005

Eda – the Rusjan brothers story by Neda Rusjan Bric, Mladinsko Theatre, 2009

Eda – the Rusjan brothers story by Neda Rusjan Bric, Mladinsko Theatre, 2009

Theatre performance Damned be the Traitor of his Homeland! by Oliver Frljić, Mladinsko Theatre, 2010

Theatre performance Damned be the Traitor of his Homeland! by Oliver Frljić, Mladinsko Theatre, 2010

Theatre performance Damned be the Traitor of his Homeland! by Oliver Frljić, Mladinsko Theatre, 2010

Theatre performance Damned be the Traitor of his Homeland! by Oliver Frljić, Mladinsko Theatre, 2010

Sarah Kane's Blasted [Razdejani], directed by Vinko Möderndorfer, Mladinsko Theatre, 2008

Sarah Kane's Blasted [Razdejani], directed by Vinko Möderndorfer, Mladinsko Theatre, 2008

Theatre performance Šumi, directed by Vinko Möderndorfer, Mladinsko Theatre, 2009

Theatre performance Šumi, directed by Vinko Möderndorfer, Mladinsko Theatre, 2009

Our Violence and Your Violence, a play by Oliver Frljić, performed at Wiener Festwochen and produced by Mladinsko Theatre, 2016

Our Violence and Your Violence, a play by Oliver Frljić, performed at Wiener Festwochen and produced by Mladinsko Theatre, 2016

The Mladinsko Theatre's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Zločin in kazen [Crime and punishment] was directed by Diego de Brea. With Matija Vastl as Raskolnikov, the show premièred in 2009.

The Mladinsko Theatre's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Zločin in kazen [Crime and punishment] was directed by Diego de Brea. With Matija Vastl as Raskolnikov, the show premièred in 2009.
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