european theatre

In 2008, visiting theatre groups included: the EnKnap Group with a performance of Celebration, choreography by Lenke Flory and Simone Sandroni; the Slovenian Permanent Theatre of Trieste with a performance of Piero Paolo Pasolini’s Pigsty, directed by Ivica Buljan; Inbal Pinto from Israel with a performance of Shaker, choreography by Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak; the Royal Flemish Theatre of Brussels with a performance of Sing And Be Joyful, directed by Ruud Gielens; and the Theater and Philharmonic Orchestra of Heidelberg – Städtische Bühne performed Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers, directed by Martin Nimza. In 2009 the Cycle started with a performance of Macbeth After Shakespeare by Heiner Müller, directed by Ivica Buljan, a co-production of Zagreb Youth Theatre and Cankarjev dom from Ljubljana, Slovenia. Then Zagreb Youth Theatre hosted a performance of Little Red Riding Hood by Joël Pommerat, directed by Sascha Bunge and produced by Theatre an der Parkaue from Berlin. The Cycle in 2009 was closed with a performance of Faust-Fantasy in wich the great director Peter Stein made his first-ever appearance as a stage actor in collaboration with the music composer Arturo Annecchino. This project was coordinated by Change Performing Arts/CRT Artificio.

Zagreb Youth Theatre started the Cycle in 2010 with a guest performance of Lowering of the Sky written by Nebojša Pop Tasić, directed by Jernej Lorenci and produced by Slovene Youth Theatre from Ljubljana, Slovenia.