Misplaced Pages

Matjaž Pograjc

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
The article's lead section may need to be rewritten. Please help improve the lead and read the lead layout guide. (January 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.
Find sources: "Matjaž Pograjc" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
(Learn how and when to remove this message)

Matjaž Pograjc (born 1967 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian theatre director and one of Slovenia's most prominent theatre artists.

Life and work

Studies in theatre and radio direction (AGRFT, Ljubljana). In 1990, he founded the Betontanc group, with which he develops and researches choreographical and physical forms of stage expression, employing ideologically oriented themes – especially from the world of urban adolescence. Another important part of his research is dedicated to verbal theatrical structure; with the aid of the Mladinsko Theatre ensemble, Pograjc explores a directional concept based on original interpretations of contemporary dramatic texts or the contributions of the acting team. His method of interpretation involves different genres of pop culture, under which he discovers modern archetypal models of a lost civilization, chaos, violence and cruelty.

Major works

  • Mladinsko Theatre:
  • Bernard-Marie Koltès: Roberto Zucco, 1996
  • Butterendfly (based on M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, 1995).
  • A Place I've Never Been, 1996.
  • D. Z. Frey: Tirza, 1997.
  • Who's Afraid of Tennessee Williams?, 1999.
  • The House of Bernarda Alba (based on Federico García Lorca, 2000.
  • J. M. Barrie – M. Pograjc: Peter Pan, 2001.
  • Peter Weiss: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, 2002.
  • Play it Again, Caligula (based on Albert Camus: Caligula), 2003.
  • Daša Doberšek, Branko Jordan, Nataša Matjašec: Luluby, 2004.
  • Tena Štivičić: Fragile!, 2005.
  • Fabio Rubiano O.: The Whale’s Belly, 2006.
  • Love to Death (A concert for a chef, six apprentices and three dishwashers), 2007.
  • Betontanc:
  • Poets without Pockets, Ljubljana, 1990.
  • Romeo and Juliet, Ljubljana, 1991.
  • Every Word a Gold Coin Worth, Ljubljana, 1992.
  • Wet Hanky Thieves, Ljubljana, Angers, 1993.
  • Know Your Enemy!, Ljubljana, 1995.
  • On Three Sides of Heaven, Ljubljana, 1997.
  • The Secret Sunshine Schedule, Bunker Productions, Ljubljana, 1999.
  • Midnight Meat Flight, 2000.
  • Maison des rendez-vous, Ljubljana, Rennes, 2002.
  • Wrestling Dostoievsky, Vienna, 2004.
  • Everybody for Berlusconi, Junghollandia and Betontanc, 2004.
  • Show Your Face!, Betontanc and Umka.LV, 2006.

Honours, awards and recognitions

  • Grand prix Bagnolet '92, Paris, 1992
  • Borštnik Award for special achievements, Maribor, Slovenia, 1992
  • Prešeren Fund Award for directions in Mladinsko Theatre and Betontanc, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1997
  • Best breakthrough choreographer-director in the »Top Five in New York 2000« section of the New York Times (after the tour in La MaMa with The Secret Sunshine Schedule), New York, USA, 2000
  • The Villanueva Award to the performance Who's Afraid of Tennessee Williams? as one of the best foreign productions in Cuba, 2003
  • Marul Award for best direction for Fragile!, Days of Marulić Festival, Split, Croatia, 2006
  • Grand Prix of the Borštnik Drama Meeting for Fragile!, Maribor, Slovenia, 2006

References

  1. Brauneck, Manfred (2017). Independent Theatre in Contemporary Europe: Structures - Aesthetics - Cultural Policy. Verlag. p. 213. ISBN 9783839432433. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  2. Jana Pavlič, Castration Machines, Maska 2001

External links

Categories: