46 years of the Week of Slovenian drama
46 Years of the Week of Slovenian Drama
The Week of Slovenian Drama is the central festival for performances of Slovenian plays, organised annually by Prešeren Theatre Kranj with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Kranj. It encourages the staging of performances of national drama as well as its production, promotion and presentation abroad. To achieve that, the festival cooperates with Slovenian and international theatres and theatre institutes. Important contributions to the encouragement of creating Slovenian drama are annual playwriting workshops, mentored by renowned Slovenian and foreign playwrights, reading performances and presentations of the nominated plays and cooperation with the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television and the Faculty of Arts, both of the University of Ljubljana.
1971 – the first Week of Slovenian Drama in Kranj (the Week of Slovenian Drama was organised in Celje in 1955, 1963 and 1954)
1973 – the first participation of performances of Slovenian drama from theatres of the then-Yugoslavia at the festival
1979 – the first Slavko Grum Award for the best new Slovenian play and the first Grün–Filipič Award for the achievements in Slovenian dramaturgy
1999 – the first Grand Prix for the best performance awarded
1999 – the first translations of award-winning text prepared by the festival
2003 – the beginning of reading performances of the plays nominated for the Grum Award
2004 – the Grand Prix renamed after the recently deceased playwright Rudi Šeligo
2004 – the beginning of the annual playwriting workshops, future Grum Award winners are among the participants
2006 – the first Audience Award given
2007 – the Day of the Nominees offers an in-depth view of the new texts
2009 – the Week of Slovenian Drama and the Slovenian Centre ITI join forces to promote Slovenian drama abroad
2011 – the Week of Slovenian drama and its partner festivals prepare an initiative for a festival association for new drama
2012 – the first Young Playwright Award
2014 – the plays from similar festivals of national drama presented at the festival
2015 - the first professional meeting of make-up artists from Slovenian theatres
2016 - the first Vladimir Kralj Award is presented in cooperation with the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia
List of texts entered for the Slavko Grum Award and for the Young Playwright Award
The Slavko Grum Award
The Grum Award jury of the 47th Week of Slovenian Drama, consisting of literary historian and theatre scholar Mateja Pezdirc Bartol (president), dramaturg Rok Andres, dramaturg and theatre researcher Tatjana Ažman, literary theorist Gašper Troha and dramaturg Klavdija Zupan, has nominated five texts for the Slavko Grum Award.
Thirty-nine texts were entered this year for the Slavko Grum Award competition, organised annually by the Prešeren Theatre Kranj as a part of the Week of Slovenian Drama. The four plays nominated last year also remain in competition, for a total of forty-three texts.
The award will be presented at the Closing Ceremony of the Week of Slovenian Drama.
The Grum Award Nominees:
Simona Hamer: Postcards or Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Vinko Möderndorfer: A Boy, a Girl and a Silver-haired Gentleman
Rok Sanda: Icarus, a Story of a Flighty
Simona Semenič: this apple, golden
Rok Vilčnik rokgre: Our Theatre
Text entered for this year's Slavko Grum Award competition:
Avtor/avtorica/avtorji/avtorice: Republika Slovenija
Andrej Beloglavec: Abraham na Luni
Evald Flisar: Big bang baby
Franjo Frančič: Otroške oči; Sovraštvo; Zid, kri, nebo
Lotica in Valter Gorenc: Trupla
Simona Hamer: Razglednice ali strah je od znotraj votel od zunaj pa ga nič ni
Justin Jauk: Lepa Vida – Krik svobode
Aleš Jelenko: Poišči me
Jaša Koceli: Preblizu
Zdenko Kodrič: Ladja Imperial ali Dobrodošli na oceanu Mala Moskva
Tomaž Lapajne Dekleva: Podružnica
Igor Likar: Posmrtni intervju črnega Krištofa ali Grobnica črnega klovna; Radio Tesla in zgodba o otroku svetlobe
Mitja Lovše: Cimra
Katja Markič: Otrok svojega sveta
Tamara Matevc: Bratonski pil, Prva ljubezen
Miha Mazzini: Pot domov
Tjaša Mislej: Drugi je prvi v vrsti luzerjev
Vinko Möderndorfer: Fant, dekle in sivolasi gospod; Za isto mizo
Barbara Pišlar: Metamfetaminski ples
Matej Polick: Manifest človeštva
Nebojša Pop-Tasić: Zakaj ptiči pojejo
Cveto Preželj: Bogorodica
Kristina Radešček: Kandidatožer
Rok Sanda: Ikarus, zgodba o poletu
Simona Semenič: ovira; to jabolko, zlato
Ivo Svetina: V imenu matere, sestre in nerojenih
Gašper Tič: Trač ali Mnogo hrupa za nič
Rok Vilčnik rokgre: Naše gledališče
Primož Vresnik: Kvanti v pločevinki
Sofija Vukelj: Vmes pa ljubezen
Dragan Živadinov, Mojca Kumerdej, Lotos Vincenc Šparovec: Antropologija
N. N.: Štala
The four plays nominated last year that also remain in the competition:
Žanina Mirčevska: Rojstvo tirana iz glave črva
Vinko Moderndorfer: Psi lajajo
Gašper Tič: Trio
Matjaž Zupančič: Prehod
The Young Playwright Award
Since 2012, the Prešeren Theatre Kranj has been presenting this award to a young playwright at the Week of Slovenian Drama. To be eligible to compete for the Young Playwright Award the authors of the entered texts must be younger than thirty years of age. The award will be decided on by the jury consisting of literary historian and theatre scholar Mateja Pezdirc Bartol (president), dramaturg Rok Andres, dramaturg and theatre researcher Tatjana Ažman, literary theorist Gašper Troha and dramaturg Klavdija Zupan.
The award will be presented at the Closing Ceremony of the Week of Slovenian Drama.
Monika Bukovec: Stari demoni
Katarina Černe: Prideš prosim nazaj?
Marija Gardina: Granatno jabolko
Varja Hrvatin: Nocturno; Prodane duše zmeraj izležejo krzno
Ajdin Huzejrović: Lahko noč družina
Sara Lucu: Prenapetost
Kaja Novosel: Spotaknem se ob svoj sanjski svet in padem vanj
Katja Perat: Zaton srednjega razreda
Tjaša Plazar: Ne morem si privoščiti tako dolgega življenja
Iza Strehar: Lahko bi bilo, ampak ni.
Nika Švab: Ujeti trenutek
Egon Vrečič: Korotanec
Benjamin Zajc: Medene solze