Macedonian-Slovenian Theatre Relations

Ana Stojanoska

The paper investigates the presence of Slovenian playwrights and theatre artists on Macedonian stages in the period 1913–2013. In the introduction, it gives the reasons for cooperation in different social-political contexts and presents a hypothesis on Slovenian and Macedonian theatre as spaces of two different theatre aesthetics. Based on a comprehensive inventory of Slovenian theatre artists and their performance in Macedonian professional theatres, the paper discusses the influence of their poetics on theatre in Macedonia.

Ana Stojanoska is a theatre scholar and associate professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje, where she also earned her master’s (2003) and PhD (2007) degrees. She currently teaches courses on comparative literature, Macedonian drama and theatre and the history of world drama and theatre. She has worked as a researcher at the Institute of Theatre Studies (Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje) since 2002. She is the author of the books Димитар Ќостаров – Реалистичната поетика и естетика на еден режисер [Dimitar Ḱostarov – One Directors Realistic Poetics and Aesthetics] and Македонски постмодерен театар [Macedonian postmodern theater], the editor of the monographs Драми [Drama] (from Dejan Dukovski) and Современа македонска драма [Contemporary Macedonian drama] and the co-author of numerous monographs about theatre.