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Jury and Awards

Festival Awards:

Members of the Festival jury::

• Svetlana Bojkovic, president of the jury
• Kaca Doric, drama actress, Sarajevo
• Milada Kalezic, drama actress, Maribor
• Ivan Dobcev, theatre director, Sofija
• Darko Gašparovic, teatrologist, Rijeka

awarded the following performances:

• The Veljko Maricic Award for the best show as a whole goes to: WAITING ROOM of the Farm in the Cave International Theatre Studio, Prague, Chech Republic.

  Known for its high performance quality choreo-dramas, „Farm in the Cave“ under the artistic leadership of the young director Viliam Docolomanski with their new production proved that the group has reached the very peak of masterful collective union between contemporary dance and acting. Among strong competition, the performance distinguished itself as the most complete example of the total theater.

• The Andelko Stimac Award for best director goes to Egon Savin for GUSTO by Belgrade Drama Theatre, Serbia & MESS Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  In this performance, Egon Savin once again expressed his well-known minute work on a socially engaged and current textual template, as well as his perfectionist work with a relatively numerous acting ensemble.

• The Veljko Maricic Award for best male role ex-equo: Nebojsa Glogovac for Colonel Vesovic in DRUNKEN NIGHT IN 1918. by Theatre Ulysses Brijuni, Croatia, and Vladimir Penev for his role of Captain Edgar in The Dance of Death by Theatre Laboratory Sfumato, Sofia, Bulgaria.

  With all elements of the top acting expressions, these are two equally valuable acting creations. Both Nebojša Glogovac and Vladimir Penev base their interpretation of strong characters on deep penetration into the complex character phychogramme, vocal suggestivity and potent gestuality. At the same time they create a model interplay with their male and female partners, creating thus a complete scenic image.

• The Veljko Maricic Award for best female role ex-equo: Dusanka Stojanovic for Esma in the show GUSTO, by Belgrade Drama Theatre, Serbia & MESS Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Silvie Rohrer for Medea in the show [mede:a]:, by Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria.

  Within the frame of an emotionally-packed traditional performance, Dušanka Stojanovic has created the most emphatic character seen at the Festival, while Sylvie Rohrer with the creation of a foreign woman in a sophisticated and inhuman ambiance of the contemporary western civilization connected with deep traces of the mythical archetype and carried out till the end a complex, exciting and convincing character of a betrayed woman and a wretched mother.

• The Veljko Maricic Award for best young actor/actress goes to: Ozren Grabaric for his role of Bottom in Midsummer Night Dream performed by Dramma Theatre Gavella Zagreb, Croatia.

  The young actor Ozren Grabaric has with extraordinary success pulled out of its usual stencil this rewarding but because of numerous interpretations also often hackneyed comical role of one of the Shakespeare’s craftsmen in oniric scenic game, giving his character a new and fresh transformation.

• The Veljko Maricic Award for best supporting actor/actress goes to: Cvetan Aleksijev for the role of Kurt in the show The Dance of Death by Theatre Laboratory Sfumato, Sofia, Bulgaria.

  In interplay with two potent protagonists of the staged Strindberg’s merciless fight between the sexes, the young actor has excellently parried his role of the third in a cursed archetypal play based on the theater of essence/ontological theater.

• The Veljko Maricic Award for best dramaturgy goes to: Tena and Ivo Stivicic for Drunken Night in 1918 by Theatre Ulysses, Brijuni, Croatia.

  Tena Štivicic is the author the dramaturgy of the performance for which the text is written by Ivo Štivicic based on the motives of Krleža's reminiscent prose Drunken Night 1918 and several other texts from that period. Since it is clear that the brilliant dramaturgical template for the performance is a result of the cooperation between the two authors, father and daughter Štivicic, it seemed logical to award them both for the best dramaturgy.

• The Dorian Sokolic Award for the best visual design goes to: [mede:a]: by Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria.

  Instead of special awards for set design, costume design and light design, the Jury has decided to present a unique award for the best visual design to the project [Mede:a] by Grzegorz Jarzyna, also the director of the performance. Together with his cast, Jarzyna imagined and created a unique scenic arrangement of the cold and alienated space of modern western civilization, where stage, costumes and lights are fused to perfection and so intricately intertwined that they cannot be separated one from another.

• The Veljko Mariici Award for the best music goes to: Asen Avramov for The Dance of Death by Theatre Laboratory Sfumato, Sofia, Bulgaria.

  Asen Avramov's incidental music, to which the director gave importance, underlies and suggests dark dramatic states throughout the performance. At the same time, it has its own expressive value, which distinguishes it from other propositions in this theater category.

• The Veljko Maricic Special Award for the special tribute to the theatre goes to: Pero Kvrgić in Midsummer Night Dream by Drama Theatre Gavella Zagreb, Croatia.

  Pero Kvrgić participated at the 15th International Small Scene Theater Festival Rijeka as an aged, pensive and wise Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed by Drama Theater Gavella and reminded us once again why he is the undisputed and the biggest living legend of the Croatian drama theater. Though in his eighties, he is incredibly vital and full of creative energy. To his recognizable and already renowned guestual – mimic – spoken habitus, he now adds that hard-to-describe note of mature wisdom which he has woven into the already mentioned creation where he ingeniously links an out-of-the ordinary aged Puck and Prosperous from the Tempest. Pero Kvrgic carries in himself the whole Croatian drama theater of the last sixty years, yet being and remaining wonderfully co/temporary.

• The Veljko Maricic Special Award for exploring of antropology in the theatre: Pippo Delbono in This Wild Darkness by Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione etc, Modena, Italy.

  Follower of the anthropological theater of Eugenio Barba and Pina Bausch's dance theater, Pippo Delbono in his new production puts forward one more time the uniqueness of his theater/non-theater. The phenomenon of suffering and death is stripped naked to pure phenomenon, in which he himself participates with his voice and dance while being followed by a singular group composed of different disabled persons. Delbono touches the roots of man's existential questions, transforming personal pain caused by the disappearance of empathy and solidarity with our keen, as well as the absence of beauty, into a touching empathy and beauty that run thorough his artistic act.

• The "MEDITERAN" Award from the jury of Novi List: Nebojsa Glogovac for Colonel Vesovic in Drunken Night in 1918 by Theatre Ulysses, Brijuni, Croatia.
• The "Dalibor Foretic" T-Com KulTurist Award goes to: GUSTO by Belgrade Drama Theatre, Serbia & MESS Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.