Europe Today (play) explained

Europe Today
Company:East West Theatre Company and Slovene National Theatre, Maribor
Genre:A play with music
Premiere:February 16, 2011
Location:Slovene National Theatre, Maribor
Creatortitle1:Director
Creatorname1:Haris Pašović
Creatortitle2:Writer
Creatorname2:Miroslav Krleža
Creatortitle3:Choreographer
Creatorname3:Edward Clug
Creatortitle4:Poster Design
Creatorname4:Enes Huseinčehajić
Creatortitle5:Dramaturge
Creatorname5:Dubravka Vrgoc
Creatortitle6:Lighting design
Creatorname6:Haris Pasovic
Uros Faganelj
Creatortitle7:Director assistant
Creatorname7:Bruno Lovrić
Creatortitle8:Sound designer
Creatorname8:Grant Austin
Domen Sterle
Creatortitle9:Video Art
Creatorname9:nejaaka
Saso Podgorsek
Creatortitle10:Trailer
Creatorname10:Goran Loncarevic Goc
Creatortitle13:Music
Creatorname13:Laibach
Creatortitle14:Actor
Creatorname14:Miki Manojlovic
Creatortitle15:Dancers
Creatorname15:Edward Clug
Tijuana Krizman Hudernik
Tiberiu Marta
Otherlabel1:Producers
Otherdata1:Ismar Hadziabdic
Danilo Rosker
Otherlabel2:Financial Coordinator
Otherdata2:Sanela Brcic
Otherlabel3:Production Assistant
Otherdata3:Lejla Abazovic
Website:http://eastwest.ba/nora/

Europe Today is a theatre show produced in cooperation between East West Theatre Company and Slovene National Theatre.[1] The show is based on an essay written by Miroslav Krleza and directed by Haris Pasovic. Production also included Miki Manojlovic, an actor; Edward Clug, a contemporary dancer and choreographer; as well as the industrial, neoclassical band Laibach.[2] The dramaturgy of the production was done by Dubravka Vrgoc, director of Zagreb Youth Theatre. The artists, who reside in Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, rehearsed in Maribor's Slovene National Theatre during February 2011. The show opened February 16 and it provoked great regional and international interest.[3]

The poster image for Europe Today depicts an SA-style trooper, but instead of the swastika, his armband and the flag he carries show the 12 stars of the EU. The image is partly playful, a homage to the Neue Slowenische Kunst art movement whose most prominent exponents, the band Laibach, are collaborators in this Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian-Slovenian-Romanian-created work, which in 2011 played in Maribor, Slovenia and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The show is a 75-minute collage of words and images: Serbian actor Miki Manojlović recites Krleža’s words, Romanian-born dancer and choreographer Edward Clug represents its arguments in movement while Laibach performs a number of radically reimagined European national anthems.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.sng-mb.si/za-medije/press-release-europe-today-the-biggest-theatre-co-production-in-south-east-europe/ Slovene National Theatre: Europe Today – the biggest theatre co-production in South East Europe [cited December 07, 2011]
  2. http://eastwest.ba/europe-today/ East West Theatre Company Website: Europe Today [cited December 07, 2011]
  3. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/15936ec0-3f75-11e0-a1ba-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Eq631acg/ Financial Times Website: Europe Today, Slovenian National Theatre, Maribor
  4. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/cc7a5fc6-6b9f-11e0-93f8-00144feab49a.html#axzz1eQhgeYgi/ Financial Times: Europe in pieces