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Slovenia (10) -- News -- 2009
Borstnik Festival beginning tonight
16.10.2009
The 44th traditional Borstnik Meeting, Slovenia's biggest theatre festival, will open on Friday in Maribor, featuring eleven productions by nine theatre outfits which will compete for the prestigious Borstnik awards.
The winner of the main award, the Golden Borstnik Ring, will be announced as the festival closes on 25 October. Apart from the Borstnik Ring for lifetime achievement in acting, the judging panel will give out awards for best play, best director, five actor's awards and an award for up-and-coming actor. It will also confer awards for stage and costume design, as well as the Dominik Smole Award for original play or translation, adaptation, innovation and aesthetic achievement.
The festival will feature a total of 15 plays, including two visiting productions: Goethe's "Faust Fantasia" by legendary German director Peter Stein and "Barcica za puncke" by Serbia's Novi Sad National Theatre.
A panel entitled "Connecting Festivals of the Western Balkans", organised by the International Theatre Institute, will meanwhile feature speakers from Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro.
The opening of the Borstnik Meeting coincides with the 90th anniversary of the SNG Maribor theatre, which has been the venue of the festival ever since its beginnings in 1965.
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More about The Borstnik Festival
16.10.2009
Every Autumn since 1966, various Slovene theatres have met in Maribor at the Borstnikovo srecanje (Borstnik Meeting). The festival is named after Ignacij Borstnik, 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 the most demanding roles, especially from turn-of-the-century modernist realism.
This most prestigious event is the largest annual review of Slovene theatre and theatre performances. In addition to repertory theatres from Maribor, Ljubljana, Nova gorica, Celje, Kranj, Koper and Trst, selected independent theatre productions are also presented.
The Meeting also includes awards for best show, director, actor, musical score and other artistic categories, plus the Borstnik Ring Award, the highest award for lifetime achievement in Slovene theatre, which is given to an actor or actress who has left a major legacy to the Slovene stage.
Various exhibitions of theatre photographs and stage set drawings and performances by secondary school theatre groups accompany the event.
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