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Croatian Theatre

Showcase 2015

Zagreb, April 17− 20, 2015

www.hciti.hr

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PROGRAMME

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INTRODUCTION

Honored colleagues, dear guests,

Welcome to Zagreb, to the 10th Croatian Theatre Showcase, where we want to show you someof the best theatrical and dance performances created in the production of Croatian theatres andindependent groups.

The performances have been selected based on the attractiveness and excellence of thethemes and poetics of Croatian theatre, and they are sure to be interesting and informative to for-eign theatre professionals as well.

Croatian theatre is not well-known on the global stage, so the Showcase is an opportunity toincrease its visibility beyond our borders. We hope you will help us accomplish that.

The Zagreb Youth Theatre will present as many as three shows, which is indicative of its diverse

and high-quality repertoire, making it one of the best repertory theatres i n Croatia.Christopher Columbus (1918) is an early expressionist play by Croatian literary icon Miroslav Kr-

leža (1893-1981); through this staging, it communicates intensely with our present and confirms itsuniversal character. The show Lamb by the creative duo of director Anica Tomić and dramaturgeJelena Kovačić tackles the issue of the flip side of World War One in Zagreb via a strong socialcontext, while How We Survived by Bosnian-Herzegovinian director and MESS art director DinoMustafić, partially based on the essays of famous Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulić, draws a com-parison between the era of socialism, the war of the nineties, and the contemporary period oftransition through the fates of eight women.

The &TD Theatre was a cult theatre in the sixties that brought new avant-garde pieces to theCroatian theatre scene; nowadays it is open both to young directors and experimental projects andwill showcase two plays: In The Blink Of An Eye, an auteur project by Bobo Jelčić, a director famousfor introducing documentarist approaches to Croatian theatres and creating the dramatic mate-rial of his shows through the work process itself, and The Flood, a play by Miran Kurspahić, a young

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Choreographer/Mover/ in collaboration with the

performers-movers: Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld

Dancers - performers/Move-rs/: Ana Vnučec,Martina Tomić, Ana Mrak, Dina Ekštajn,Matea Bilosnić, Branko Banković, Bruno Isaković

Mover+: Bosiljka Vujović Mažuran

Sound design: Marin Živković

Costume design: Silvio Vujičić

Set design: Silvio Vujičić, Mladen Donadiniand the Movers

Lighting design: Aleksandar Čavlek

Photography: Aleksandra Janeva Imfeldand Iva Korenčić

Project collaborator: Višnja Horvat

Production: The Studio for contemporary dance inco-production and collaboration with the CroatianInstitute for Movement and Dance, through theWeek of Contemporary Dance project

Artistic guidance: Bosiljka Vujović Mažuran

Producer: Branko Banković

Premiere: May 28, 2014

Running Time: 50 min

Studio for contemporary danceMove-r

In this show, choreograph Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld explores the questionsof originality, copying and ownership of ideas. The show is performed by Move-rs: Ana Vnučec, Martina Tomić, Ana Mrak, Dina Ekštajn, Matea Bilosnić,Branko Banković and Bruno Isaković. The Move-rs hold that it is impossibleto repeat any action in exactly the same way, and they use copying and mu-tation to create new originals. The show was created by the Studio for Con-temporary Dance (the first contemporary dance ensemble in Croatia and thewider region) in co-production with the Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance, through the Week of Contemporary Dance project.

From the performance program

Choreographer Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld, collaborating with excellent dancers, has wisely chosen an open format for her performance, which en-tails certain strategies of behavior, but no control over the decisions of any given dancer or their response to a certain situation (…) The multiplicity cre-ated by the melding and friction between the performing and the observ-ing fields is artistically and politically very intriguing, posing a series of question about the interactional transcendence of both the singular and theplural, as well as the nature of the public sphere itself.

Nataša Govedić , Novi list 

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Performers: Sonja Pregrad and Marjana Krajač

Technical Support: Duško Richtermoc

Graphic Design: Valentina Toth

Production: Sodaberg choreography laboratory

This performance was created with the support ofthe City of Zagreb, the Zagreb Dance Centre, theCroatian Institute for Movement and Dance, thePerforming Arts Forum (St. Erma), the UferstudiosPerforming Centre in Berlin and the Improspekcijefestival in Zagreb.

Premiere: November 27, 2014

Sonja Pregrad & Marjana Krajač

Value is the dynamic excess of every function

Running Time:50 min

Sonja Pregrad and Marjana Krajač delve into a performing-choreographingmap of sorts in the form of a play which is based on dance as its stem cell.Dance is a form that is porous to different surfaces of projection and stillemanates that fundamental phenomenon which makes a wide range of focuses come together. Abandoning all current categories of evaluating artis-tic practices as being outdated and unrefined, this performance consists of a series of fragmentary inquiries to which a comprehensible matrix of an-swers is yet to be found.

From the performance program

Even today, after philosophy has given in, after phenomenologists have di-

verted attention to the living body, after many anti-dualistic turns have takenplace and cognitive science has confirmed the physical nature of cognition,dance as an art form in the mainstream refuses to move away from its rigid principles. Because of that, Sonja Pregrad’s focus on the objectified natureof the body, coming from the paradox that she “didn’t have a dancer’s body,but kept doing what she was taught was dancing”, is aimed against exclu-sionary policies that aim to regulate who can dance and who determinesthese rules.

Ivana Slunjski , kulturpunkt.hr 

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Director: Rene Medvešek

Cast:Christopher Columbus: Krešimir MikićAdmiral’s Phalanx: Sreten Mokrović, Zoran Čubrilo,Maro MartinovićSailors: Pjer Meničanin, Damir Šaban, Filip Nola,Kristijan UgrinaSlaves: Danijel Ljuboja, Frano Mašković,Jasmin Telalović, Petar Leventić

Dramaturge: Jelena KovačićSet Design: Tanja Lacko

Costume Design: Doris Kristić

Score: Matija Antolić

Percussion performer: Nenad Kovačić

Lighting Design: Aleksandar Čavlek

Language Advisor: Đurđa Škavić

Premiere: November 22, 2014

Miroslav Krleža

Christopher Columbus

Running time: 1h 15min

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In the last hundred years, the borders in which we live have changed sev-eral times. The Earth has patiently suffered all our revolutions, as if she re-ally believed us when we said we knew the answer to the question:“Where to?” Today, when we live in a declaratively unified Europe, but at thesame time witness dissolutions undermining that same unity every day,the answer to the question “Where to?” seems to be impossible. And eventhough we seem to be moving forward, we keep finding ourselves sur-rounded by the Old.

 Jelena Kovačić , from the performance program

It is hard to imagine any premiere this season in Zagreb, in fact in all of 

Croatia, overshadowing “Christopher Columbus”, directed by Rene Medvešek at the Zagreb Youth Theatre, with the inspired Krešimir Mikić taking the lead role and almost the entire male section of the ensemble providing a hu-morous performance. It has been a long time since we’ve seen a show with such spirit and simple magic in these parts.

Tomislav Čadež , Jutarnji list 

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Saturday, April 18, 201505:00 pm

Theatre for children:Mala scena Theatre

Otffried PreusslerThe Little Witch

Director: Ivica Šimić

The Promotion of Kretanja, a magazine for Dance Art issue topic: Inkluzivna scena (An Inclusive Scene)

The Kretanja („Movements“) magazine is a thematic and profes-sional magazine covering different topics from the sphere of dance art. The 22nd issue of Kretanja is called „Inkluzivna scena“ („An Inclusive Scene“) and it will be presented by editorial board member Maja Đurinović, issue editor Iva Nerina Sibila and chore-ographer Ksenija Zec.The „Inclusive Scene“ topic brings together projects, processes and discourses about including disabled persons into performancepractices, foremost into contemporary dance, mostly on the Croa-tian scene. The reason behind this choice of topic is the lack of awell-developed protocol for enabling equal artistic education, ac-cess to artistic content and entry into the artistic professions, inother words, the lack of a politics of equality and difference.As part of the promotion, the Integrated Movement Research Col-lective – or IMRC – will perform a 10-minute dance performance.Founded in 2012, the IMRC is an educational-performing inclusiveproject working as part of the Zagreb Dance Center, and is led by Iva Nerina Sibila as artistic director and Amela Pašalić as producer.

Saturday, April 18, 201512.00 pm

Zagreb Dance Centre

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Director and Dramaturge: Miran Kurspahić

Cast: Dean Krivačić, Lana Barić, Sven Jakir,Iskra Jirsak and Franka Mikolaci

Music: Nikša Marinović

Photography: Damir Žižić

Graphic Design: Lana Hudina

Producer: Petra Glad

Production: KUFER and the University of Zagreb,

Student Center, Culture of Change, &TD TheatreWith the support of: The Cit y of Zagreb,the Croatian Ministry of Culture,and the Kultura Nova foundation

Premiere: June 12, 2014

Running Time: 1h 30min

The Flood

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2014marks the 50th anniversary of the great flood of Zagreb. Two stories, oneset in 1964, the other in 2014. In a temporal leap, grandmothers and grand-fathers become the peers of their grandchildren, who cope with life and dealwith their problems each in their specific way. Do we really need a Flood toset everything in its place, nullify everything and start anew, or can thingsstill be fixed, preserved; can we build a new Moat to save the day? 

From the performance program

In a very intelligent way, “Flood” tells an interesting family story. Inventively directed, with a very good performance by the cast, this is a thematically provocative performance. A well-measured dose of easy-going, refreshing

humor lightens up this difficult, bitter story.Olivera Radović , Kazalište.hr 

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Director: Bobo Jelčić

Cast: Ivana Krizmanić, Marko Makovičić, Jerko Marčić

Premiere: April 28, 2014

One would say that Marko is a successful person. School and college -graduated on time, job – good, in a respectable company, well-paid, and the rest – career, girlfriend, friends – all but perfect. He, like many, hashad his share of problems, professional or private, but, whatever it was,he always felt capable and skilled enough to handle it. But now, he hascome across something big and painful, something he has never en-countered, not in this scope. On the verge of despair, he calls his best friends, a seemingly conventional married couple, intending to confide inthem and ask for their help…

From the performance program

 Jelčić’s latest show presents the audience with a true little masterpiece of the theatre of the socially repressed body, a body which pours out of theperformer in a way entirely different to the text – not only as a neuralsymptom, but as a sort of stifled cry, a call, an unspoken stream of long-ing of the inner world.

Nataša Govedić , Novi list 

Running time: 50 min

Bobo Jelčić

In The Blink Of An Eye

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Jelena Kovačić

The LambDirector: Anica Tomić

Production: Zagreb Youth Theatre, Zagreb, Croatia,MESS- Scena Mess, Sarajevo, B&H; BITEF Theatre,Belgrade, Serbia

Cast: Dubravka Kovjanić, Ivana Krizmanić,Vedran Živolić, Enes Salković

Music: Nenad Kovačić

Video: Ivan Lušičić

Costume Design: Marta Žegura

Lighting: Milan Kovačević

Dramaturgy Associate: Igor ŠtiksExpert Associate: Dinko Čutura

Photography: Vladimira Spindler

Executive Producer: Maja Gladović

Premiere:December 5, 2014 at the Sarajevo War T heatrein Sarajevo, B&HJanuary 15, 2015 at the BITEF Theatrein Belgrade,SerbiaJanuary 23, 2015 at the Z agreb Youth Theatre,Zagreb, Croatia

This play is dedicated to the Zagreb Youth Theatre, specifically to the “MiškoPolanec” small hall, also known as the Lamb, and to a moment in timewhich is commemorated as one of the greatest bloodsheds in the history of war in the region. In a way, this play has also become an answer to thequestion of whether spaces have memories of their own, and whether thepeople leave traces of themselves by spending time in them.

dramaturge Jelena Kovačić and director  Anica Tomić ,from the performance program

The political potential of this show is more present in the respect towardshuman (especially children’s) traces and documents, than in the repeated 

emphasis on the extent to which a battlefield inevitably causes the annihi-lation of everything that makes us human. The play leaves some room for improvement in the performance materials, but even in this form it offersa high-quality piece of performance ethnography.

Nataša Govedić , Novi list 

Running time: 1h

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Based on the motifs of the essays of Slavenka Drakulić and actresses’ stories

How we survived

Director: Dino Mustafić

Cast: Katarina Bistrović-Darvaš, Nataša Dorčić,Jadranka Đokić, Doris Šarić – Kukuljica, KsenijaMarinković, Urša Raukar, Lucija Šerbedžija,Nina Violić

Musicians: Mate Matišić and Stanislav Kovačić

Dramaturge: Željka Udovičić Pleština

Set Design: Dragutin Broz

Costume Design: Doris Kristić

Composer and song author: Mate MatišićChoreographer: Irma Omerzo

Lighting Design: Aleksandar Čavlek

Sound Design: Tomica Kraljić

Dramaturgy and Direction Assistant: Dino Pešut

Premiere: May 08, 2014

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Eight actresses on the scene try to reconstruct a period of time through their personal memories, in a confessional tone, marking the space they shared and which still belongs to them. How reliable are memories, how much of them is subjective, and how big a part of them are the transferred memo-ries of Others? The eight of them together, in the company of the audience,will re-live communism, the war, transition and this contemporary time,bearing witness, in theatre space, to a time that changed them.

Dubravka Vrgoč , from the performance program

This is a show about our naivety, about the curse of a small nation and cul-ture that dies every time it starts taking itself seriously. It openly mocks the

Southern Slavic pathos. Tomislav Čadež , Jutarnji list 

Running time: 1h 20 min

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Miroslav Krleža

VučjakDirector: Ivica Buljan

Dramaturge: Vlaho BogišićComposer: Mitja Vrhovnik SmrekarSet Design:Aleks andar DenićCostume Design:Ana Savić GecanLighting Design: Son:DaCondition Trainer: Marinko PetričevićDirector’s Assistant: Paolo TišljarićCostume Design Assistant: AntonijaJakšić DorotićSet Design Assistant: Ante Serdar

Premiere: December 30, 2014

Cast:

Characters in the Prelude:Polugan: Bojan NavojecDr. Zlatko Strelec: Nikša KušeljVenger-Ugarković: Livio BadurinaBoss-redactor: Damir MarkovinaŠipušić: Ivan GlowatzkyProofreader: Alen ŠalinovićKrešimir Horvat: Silvio Vovk

Characters in the First, Secondand Third Act:Krešimir Horvat: Silvio VovkMarijana Margetić: Alma PricaEva: Nina ViolićJuraj Kučić: Goran GrgićVjekoslav Hadrović: Slavko JuragaPantelija Crnković: Milan PleštinaMitar: Kristijan PotočkiLukač: Franjo KuharGrga Tomerlin: Dušan BućanOld Man: Siniša PopovićPerek’s Juro: Ivan GlowatzkyLazar Margetić: Dragan DespotEva’s Mother: Ana Begić

Characters in the Intermezzo:Bride: Marija ŠegvićFather: Slavko JuragaMother: Ana BegićVenger-Ugarković: Livio BadurinaBoss-redactor: Damir MarkovinaPolugan: Bojan NavojecPolugan’s wife: Iva MihalićMarijana Margetić: Alma PricaZlatko Strelec: Nikša KušeljJuro the Waiter: Goran GrgićGrga Tomerlin: Dušan Bućan

“Vučjak” is one of Miroslav Krleža’s most important plays, and it contains almost all those characteris-tics of his theatrical opus – from early expression-ism and avant-garde, thematic blocs and ideas tothe stylistic superiority of his later works, whichhave left their mark on a wide range of 20th-cen-tury Croatian literature. The clash between ideal-ism and a world ruled by animal instincts willmake our protagonist Horvat a familiar everyday neurasthenic with whom we can empathize, as“Vučjak”remains a thoroughly modern text whichseamlessly fits into our time as well.

From the performance program

What is especially enthralling is the way director Ivica Buljan thoughtfully intertwines all the levelsof different on-scene activities, which, throughtheir forceful rhythm, energy, shifts and powerfully charged performances create a fascinating pictureof our mentality and climate, but also of our soci-ety, which sometimes changes its appearance, but never its essential underlying relations.

Tomislav Kurelec, Kazalište.hr 

Running time: 3h 30 min

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The Croatian Centre of ITI was founded in 1994 as a non-profit, professional and volunteer organization (citizens’ as-sociation). At the Constitutive Assembly of the Centre, SanjaNikčević as elected its first president. Within a few years ofits activity, the Croatian Centre of ITI grew from a small as-sociation of theatre enthusiasts into an organizer of numer-ous theatre initiatives and manifestations as well as arespectable publisher of theatrological publications andbooks. The main task of the numerous programs of the Croa-tian Centre of ITI is building a bond between Croatian theatreand the world, as well as it s presentation abroad. At present,the Croatian Centre of ITI has over one hundred and fiftymembers who are eligible to carry an international I.D. card,which enables them to have various benefits in theatresworldwide. The Centre publishes the Croatian Drama and The-atre bulletin in Croatian and English; the bulletin contains in-formation on the Centre’s activities as well as useful data onCroatian drama and theatre. Thanks to the work of the Croa-tian Centre of ITI, a great deal of information on Croatian the-atre, the dramatic and theatrical tradition of these parts aswell as on reputable Croatian dramatic artist s has found itsway into global theatre publications.Founded in June 2000, the Dance Board of the Croatian Cen-tre of ITI has grown into one of the rare solid strongholds of

the Croatian dance scene. It primarily acts as a place that pro-vides logistic support to dance groups and projects as well asa source of information and a way of joining the internationalnetwork on the level of the ITI Dance Boards. Thus, tours ofour groups were successfully realized in Mexico, Peru andCyprus. Thanks to the Dance Board, the celebration of DanceDay on April 29 has become a true holiday in the Croatiandance calendar. What we consider the most valuable resultof the work of our Dance Board is the launching of the mag-azine for Dance Art Kretanja (Movements, 2002), publishedtwice a year, as well as the publishing of the Guide to Croa-tian Dance. The guide was published in English only and it isa valuable asset anywhere where there is an interest andneed for information as it contains all the addresses, con-tacts and repertoires of the contemporary Croatian dancescene.Since 2001 on, Željka Turčinović has been leading the C roat-ian Centre of ITI as its President, while Dubravka Čukman actsas Administrative Assistant in the Centre’s office and MatkoBotić as expert collaborator. According to current Centre reg-ulations, the Managing and the Supervisory Board meetthree to five times a year. The Annual Assembly is held inthe month of January.

ABOUT THE CROATIAN CENTRE OF ITI

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CROATIAN CENTRE OF ITI

Address: Croatian Centre of ITIBasaričekova 24, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

phone: +385 1 4920 667fax: +385 1 4920 668e-mail: hc-iti@zg.t-com.hrweb: http://www.hciti.hr/en

working hours: Mon. to Fri. 10 am to 4 pm

Željka Turčinović, Artistic Director

of the Showcasephone: + 385 91 4920 667

Matko Botić, Program Coordinatorphone: + 385 95 903 7070

Nina Križan, Producerphone: +385 98 1975 666

THEATRES / Venues

CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE IN ZAGREB15 Marshal Tito Square, ZAGREBphone: +385 1 4888 418e-mail: infocentar@hnk.hrweb: www.hnk.hr/en

&TD THEATRE25 Savska St., ZAGREBphone: +385 1 459 35 10e-mail: itd@sczg.hrweb: www.itd.sczg.hr

MALA SCENA THEATRE2 Medveščak St., ZAGREBphone: +385 1 4683 352e-mail: info@mala.scena.hrweb: www.mala-scena.hr

ZAGREB DANCE CENTRE10 Ilica St., ZAGREBphone: +385 1 4833 083, +385 1 4621 967e-mail: hipp-tsp@zg.t-com.hr

info@plesnicentar.infoweb: www.plesnicentar.info

ZAGREB YOUTH THEATRE7 Teslina St., ZAGREBphone: +385 1 4872 561e-mail: helena.braut@zekaem.hrweb: www.zekaem.hr

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