Being Ignacij Borštnik

Three possible answers to the question of what it means to be Ignacij Borštnik

Being Ignacij Borštnik is the joint title of three performances whose themes relate to the context of the Borštnik Meeting (Maribor Theatre Festival), named after the Slovenian actor and director Ignacij Borštnik (1858-1919), the founder of contemporary Slovenian theatre. He was the first theatre director in the modern sense of the word and a masterful designer of the most demanding roles, especially in modern realistic theatre at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Each performance of the collective presentation gives one of the possible answers to the question of what it means to be Ignacij Borštnik: to use talent to the last drop of sweat (Viva Mandić), to persevere in ambition no matter the cost (No One Should Have Seen This) and to love the audience to the point of madness (Tonight I Celebrate).

Being Ignacij Borštnik

2010 • Via Nova
Collective presentation • 140 min

Performances
— Viva Mandić
— No One Should Have Seen This
— Tonight I celebrate

Concept and direction — Bojan Jablanovec
Performers — Marko Mandić, Katarina Stegnar, Alja Predan, Uroš Kaurin, Tomaž Grom
Technical manager — Igor Remeta
Producer — Špela Trošt
Production — Via Negativa

Presentation
23-10-2010, Maribor Theatre Festival