Drama programme
Variety of esthetics, diferent genres, voyage through four centuries of drama literature, from big ensemble performances to monodrama expressions, from popular theater to artifcial super-stylized; great theater names on the stage side by side with the students of Split Art Academy – guarantee a theater program for all type of audience.
Drama program of 55th Split Summer Festival includes two home premiere productions and seven guest performances. It will be held at four diferent places: Diocletian’s Palace Basement, Carrrara Square, Croatian National Theater Split premises and Lučica Spinut. Esthetically speaking this drama program varies from classical theater to popular home-made theater, contemporary British documentary drama, Croatian heritage, world classics, Croatian urban physical theater, as well as re-interpretation of Croatian classics.
My Child
Premiere
Stage: Diocletian’s Palace Basement
Violent world filled with good intentions
Ribarske svađe
Premiere
Stage: Lučica Spinut
Fishermen’s Quarrels or “Dalmatia is not Mediterranean Arcadia”!
Mr. Single
Stage: Diocletian’s Palace Basement
Relentless Geometry of Universal Loneliness
Cinco and Marinko or Taken by the Beautiful Death
Stage: Carrara Square
Laughter of absurd or journey in a well designed coffin
Voices From the Mountains
Stage: CNT Split
Allegory renaissance journey within the contemporary director’s key
A Production of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donje
Stage: Carrara Square
One of the most infuential Croatian texts from the twentieth century and a classic for a long time, a classic that speaks about taboos and underhand dealings of socialist society, however in our transitional circumstances it has been shown in completely diferent light.
Legend on st. Muhla
Stage: Carrara Square
Histrionic gathering around Gabriel the angel and vicious Croats: or as it was once it is still today
CABAres, CABArei
Stage: Carrara Square
I am not unimportant, you are not unimportant, she is not unimportant; we are not unimportant, You are not…
Caligula
Stage: CNT Split
Caligula – or strengthening the position of theater as a dream place – therefore Moon