From Concept to Stage-Ready Text

About the event

This year, the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers once again focuses its audiovisual research on discovering new discursive and supporting formats and theoretical and critical events within the festival programme that would innovatively introduce the contemplations and analyses of contemporary performing arts and drama to the audience. This year’s event will attempt to achieve this primarily through discussions with the creators about their practical experience and personal approaches.

Alja Predan, the selector of the Competition and Accompanying Programmes at the 55th Week of Slovenian Drama explains in her report that she selected the productions that as "a result of a devised theatre process, or those for which the performative inspiration came from one or more non-drama literary works, are incomparably more exciting, ambitious, bolder and more consequential for the development of performing arts in Slovenia."

The starting point of the event is thus this statement in the selector’s report and the entry into the research is exploring the director-dramaturg tandems of the authorial projects selected for the Competition and Accompanying Programmes of this year’s Week of Slovenian Drama. In the research, we will examine the development of the performing script through the dynamics of authorial and collective creative processes. Where does the text end and the performance begin? What are the differences between a contemporary play, a script for production and a transliterary drama? What is the attitude of theatre artists towards these literary formats in the creative process of an authorial project? And why and how is independent scene becoming a generator of more exciting and bolder shifts in content and form?

Authors: Varja Hrvatin and Nika Švab

Presented by: The Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers