Zametki postdramskega gledališča na Slovenskem: Eksperimentalno gledališče Balbine Battelino Baranovič (1955–1967)
The Origins of Postdramatic Theatre in Slovenia Balbina Battelino Baranovič’s Experimental Theatre (1955–1967)

Summary/Abstract: The article claims that the origins of postdramatic theatre in Slovenia can be traced back to the end of the 1950s in the work of the director Balbina Battelino Baranovič. Slovenian theatre historiography obtained a detailed and comprehensive overview of her opus for the first time in 2015 with the monograph The Edge in the Centre: Selected Chapters from the History of Experimental Theatre in Slovenia (1955–1967), written by Primož Jesenko. The present article now brings to Slovenian theatre studies the findings about the characteristics of Baranovič’s stagings as characteristics of postdramatic theatre, focusing on an analysis of her work in the Experimental Theatre, established and run by Baranovič in the period 1955–1967. Here, the author understands the director as a forerunner of postdramatic theatre, which – according to the author of the term, Hans-Thies Lehmann – emerged in the 1970s. In contrast, the existing interpretations mark the performance Pupilija, Papa Pupilo, and the Pupilceks, created in 1969 by the Pupilija Ferkeverk Theatre as a reference point of its beginning in the Slovenian space.

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