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| name                = Pandurs.Theatre
| localname           = Tomaž Pandur.Theatres, mednarodna gledališča d.o.o.
| street              = Tomšičeva ulica 22
| town                = SI-2000 Maribor
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| website             = http://www.pandurtheaters.com
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| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Livija Pandur
| role                = General Manager
| telephone           = 386 (0) 41 681 120
| email               = production@pandurtheaters.com
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| name                = Tomaž Pandur
| role                = Artistic Director
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| email               = direction@pandurtheaters.com
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[[Pandur.Theaters]] is an international theatre organisation founded in [[established in::2002]] by stage director and the most successful Slovene representative of postdramatic theatre [[Tomaž Pandur]] and dramaturge [[Livia Pandur]]. Blending various forms of artistic expression into a unique stage language, Pandur.Theatres gathers artists from different parts of the world in a multi-cultural and multilingual theatre laboratory.

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== Background ==

Theatre director [[Tomaž Pandur]] started developing his authentic and creative approach to theatre already prior to his graduation at the [[Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT)]] with his theatre productions in the frame of the ''Thespis' Wagon - The New Slovene Theatre''. The play that turned the then promising director into a well-known and even controversial author was the 1989 production of ''Scheherazade'' [Šeherezada], produced by [[Mladinsko Theatre]], which received all the first prizes and laurel wreaths at the International Theatre Festival MESS in Sarajevo and was also extremely well received by the audiences, as it remained on repertoire for over 10 seasons. From 1989 to 1996, Pandur was the Artistic Director of the Drama unit of the [[Slovene National Theatre Maribor]], where he started realising his theatrical visions with plays such as ''Faust'' (1991), ''Hamlet'' (1992), ''Carmen'' (1993), ''Divine Comedy'' (1994), ''Russian Mission'' [Ruska misija] (1995), co-produced by Steirischer Herbst, Austria, etc. 

==== Themes, preoccupations, and approaches ====
From the very beginnings, Pandur's productions evince an avid interest in the capital works of world spiritual heritage, drawing on and from the greatest literary authors, literary figures, myths, narratives and personalities. Serving as an inspiration, Pandur tackles these great themes in an entirely new way, combining literary, musical, visual, dance, and movement elements into a theatrical form of its own right. It is said that his theatre is multicultural, as it draws on Western as well as non-Western (theatre) practices, ranging from Balinese dance, Noh, Dervish dances, Commedia dell Arte, Butoh, Biomechanics, to mention but a few. In terms of genre, Pandur has directed pure dramatic theatre plays, a ballet ''The Wings'' [Krila] (2006), produced by Compania Nacional de Danza, Madrid, Spain, and two operas, however the bulk of his productions are extremely hybrid in the sense of post-dramatic theatre. Always fluid and diffuse, his productions are characterised by an an intermedia approach in which text, printed letters, video, photography, sound and signs make a separate and equally valuable instrumentarium for making theatre.

== Pandur.Theatres productions ==

The first play to be produced by the newly established Pandur.Theaters was ''Dictionary of the Khazars'' [Hazarski besednjak] (2002) written by the Serbian novelist Milorad Pavić and co-produced by [[Ljubljana Festival]], [[Ex-ponto]], Atelje 212 Belgrade, and Sava Centre Belgrade. ''One Hundred Minutes'' [Sto minut] (2003), co-produced by [[Ljubljana Festival]], was inspired by the ''Brothers Karamazov'' by F. M. Dostoevsky. A melancholic ode to a great genius Nikola Tesla ''Tesla Electric Company'' (2006) was produced  in collaboration with Ulysses Theatre (Croatia), Mittelfest Festival (Italy) and featured Pandur's regular collaborators the set designers ''Numen'' and music duo [[Silence]]. ''Caligula'' [Kaligula] (2008), co-produced by Gavella Drama Theater Zagreb, City Theatre Budva, Ulysses Theatre, Croatia, Ohrid Summer Festival, Macedonia, and Mittelfest Festival, Italy, included photo materials by [[Aljoša Rebolj]], also a regular collaborator of Pandur. ''Medea'' [Medeja] (2012), ''War and Peace'' [Vojna in mir] (2012), and ''Michelangelo'' (2013) were co-produced by the Croatian National Theatre, with ''War and Peace'' being co-produced also by [[Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012]]. In 2014, Pandur directed ''Richard III+II'', a dramatic diptych with an epilogue on death, at the [[Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana]].

Pandur also works extensively outside of Pandur.Theaters with major theatre houses across Europe, such as Teatro Español, Madrid, Spain, where he directed ''Hamlet'' (2009) and ''Twilight of the Gods'' (2011), Staatsoper Berlin, Germany, where he staged ''Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'' (2010), Teatro Fernán Gómez and Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain, Thalia Theatre, Hamburg, Germany, etc.

== Touring ==

== Awards ==


== See also ==
* [[Mladinsko Theatre]]
* [[Slovene National Theatre Maribor]]
* [[Ljubljana Festival]]
* [[Ex-ponto]]
* [[Silence]]
* [[Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana]]

==External links==
* [http://www.pandurtheaters.com Pandur.Theaters website]



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