Walls, Move Apart and Make Way for Human Dreams!

A scientific symposium on the dramatic and theatre opus of Vitomil Zupan organised by the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia and the Maribor Theatre Festival in collaboration with the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana (AGRFT UL), the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana and the Slovenian Theatre Institute

Compared to the interest for the soul-stirring life story of Vitomil Zupan and his prose work, Zupan’s dramatic opus is less researched. Therefore, this time it will be the focus of an academic debate. The dramatic opus of Vitomil Zupan is marked by a certain paradox: on the one hand, he was...

Silent Character(s) in Dramatic Literature, on Stage and in Reality

A (practical) round table discussion

The fundamental structural principle of dramatic literature, speech, has been the subject of different theoretical discourses and performing strategies ever since the beginning of theatre history. The word is almost equivalent to a dramatic character. Thus it seems that the figure of a silent...

Theatre of Resistance

An international scientific symposium organised by the Research Programme and the Centre for Theatre and Film Studies of the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana (AGRFT UL) in collaboration with the Maribor Theatre Festival

23th and 24th of October, 2014 National Liberation Museum Maribor, Heroja Tomšiča Street 5, Maribor Turbulent times often give rise to mass resistance movements, such as the anti-Fascist and anti-colonialist movements in the past century and, more recently, the movements for preserving...