At this year’s edition of the International Small Scenes Theatre Festival, which will take place from 3 to 9 May, 9 plays from Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina will be performed.
The selector and producer of the festival is the dramaturge Jasen Boko, “This year’s edition of the festival returns to its roots, to an intimate chamber drama and mainly deals with dysfunctional families, people who should be close, but whose world is inhabited by demons of adultery, fraud, absent fathers and the pursuit for meaning. This year’s edition of the festival with its choice and strong artistic presence will not give up the dramatic questioning of its surroundings, and Rijeka will meet some of the actors and directors for the first time, “said Boko, and added that “This year’s edition of the festival is dedicated to the festival’s founder, actor Nenad Šegvić”.
Edita Karađole Šegvić and Marko Filipović
The organiser of the festival is the Artistic Organisation of the HKD Theatre. Its artistic director Edita Karađole Šegvić pointed out that she was happy as the festival was coming back after two years of pandemic measures. “I believe that Nenad Šegvić would find the continuation of the festival as something that we owe to our audience, and I personally believe that it is my duty that his name is not forgotten and that the festival in Rijeka goes on.”
Mayor Marko Filipović said that that festival had its loyal audience and for its plays an extra ticket was always sought. “I hope that the audience will enjoy the selected plays and I am glad that the festival will preserve the memory of its founder Nenad Šegvić in the coming years,” said Mayor Filipović.
In the accompanying festival programme, an exhibition of theatre posters by Predrag Spasojević will be held at the Kortil Gallery, and after the performances there will be round tables where the audience will have an opportunity to learn more about the plays.
Tickets go on sale on April 11 and will be available at the Information Centre of the City of Rijeka on Korzo from 5 to 7 pm, and it will be possible to get them on the day of the performance, an hour before the start at the venue.
The festival programme is available on the website of the 27th edition of the International Small Scenes Theatre Festival.