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Sanja Nikčević
Sanja Nikčević (born 1960) is a Croatian theatre critic and distinguished professor of theatre history in the drama department of the Arts Academy of Osijek, Croatia. She is also head of the drama module of the doctoral program in literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Osijek (Osijek, Croatia). She is the president of the Croatian Critics' Association and Governing Board of Matica hrvatska. Nikčević lives in Zagreb, Croatia. Education and work Nikčević was born in Varaždin. At the Faculty of Philosophy Zagreb she obtained a BA (French language and comparative literature, 1984), MA (1993) and Ph.D. (1998) in American drama. She worked as a journalist and theatre critic for the Croatian daily newspaper ''Večernji list'' (1985–1993), was an advisor for theatre in the Croatian Ministry of Culture (1996–1997), and was a freelancer. Academic career She was a Fulbright scholar twice (CUNY 1995, mentor M. Carlson UCSB 2002, mentor W. D. King) and lectured at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanja Nikčević
Sanja Nikčević (born 1960) is a Croatian theatre critic and distinguished professor of theatre history in the drama department of the Arts Academy of Osijek, Croatia. She is also head of the drama module of the doctoral program in literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Osijek (Osijek, Croatia). She is the president of the Croatian Critics' Association and Governing Board of Matica hrvatska. Nikčević lives in Zagreb, Croatia. Education and work Nikčević was born in Varaždin. At the Faculty of Philosophy Zagreb she obtained a BA (French language and comparative literature, 1984), MA (1993) and Ph.D. (1998) in American drama. She worked as a journalist and theatre critic for the Croatian daily newspaper ''Večernji list'' (1985–1993), was an advisor for theatre in the Croatian Ministry of Culture (1996–1997), and was a freelancer. Academic career She was a Fulbright scholar twice (CUNY 1995, mentor M. Carlson UCSB 2002, mentor W. D. King) and lectured at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and academic abroad centers. The system is the state's land-grant university. Major publications generally rank most UC campuses as being among the best universities in the world. Six of the campuses, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego are considered Public Ivies, making California the state with the most universities in the nation to hold the title. UC campuses have large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every academic discipline, with UC faculty and researchers having won 71 Nobel Prizes as of 2021. The University of California currently has 10 campuses, a combined student body of 285,862 students, 24,400 faculty members, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mate Matišić
Mate Matišić (born 17 January 1965) is a Croatian playwright, screenwriter, composer and musician. His plays have been staged in Croatian theaters as well as internationally, and some of them have been adapted into feature films. As a composer, he is best known for his film and theatrical music. He has won five Golden Arena awards at the Pula Film Festival. Biography Matišić was born in Ričice, near Imotski. At the age of six, he moved to Zagreb, where he finished elementary and high school. Matišić graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, but he never practiced law. Between 1996 and 1998, Matišić worked as a dramaturge in Jadran Film. Since 1998, he works at the Croatian Radio. He is also a docent at the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, where he is head of the Department of Dramaturgy. He is married and a father of three. Literary work Matišić began to write in his senior year in high school. He wrote his first play, ''Namigni mu, Bruno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lada Kaštelan
Lada Kaštelan (born 2 May 1961) is a Croatian dramatist and screenwriter. Between 1987 and 2007, Kaštelan worked as a dramaturge at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Since 2007, she works as a professor at the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb. Kaštelan's screenplay for '' Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing'', co-written with Zrinko Ogresta, received the Golden Arena for Best Screenplay at the 1992 Pula Film Festival Pula Film Festival ( hr, Pulski filmski festival) is an annual Croatian film festival, established in 1954. It is held in a Roman amphitheater known as the Pula Arena. Pula Film Festival is the oldest Croatian film festival and is usually held .... Her play ''Giga i njezini'' received the 1995 Marin Držić Award. Sources * External links * 1961 births Croatian dramatists and playwrights Croatian screenwriters Writers from Zagreb University of Zagreb faculty Living people Golden Arena winners {{Croatia-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miro Gavran
Miro Gavran (; born 3 May 1961) is a Croatian writer of short stories, fiction and drama. His works have been translated into 40 languages, making him the most translated Croatian writer, and his books have come out in 250 different editions at home and abroad. His dramas and comedies have had more than 400 theatre first nights around the world and have been seen by more than two million theatre attendants. From 2021 he is president of Matica hrvatska. Early life Gavran was born in Gornja Trnava, PR Croatia, at the time part of Yugoslavia. Writing career He debuted in 1983 with the drama Creon's Antigone, speaking out forcefully about political manipulation. This was followed three years later by the drama Night of the Gods, the theme being the relationship between the artist and the powers-that-be under a totalitarian system. He then wrote a cycle of plays concentrating on male-female relations, in which his heroes were often great historical persons. He has created a series of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubravko J
Dubravko ( sr, Дубравко) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, derived from ''dubrava'' meaning "oak grove". The name can refer to: * Dubravko Bužimski Jelačić, Croatian writer * Dubravko Detoni, Croatian composer, pianist and writer * Dubravko Jovanović, Serbian actor * Dubravko Kolinger, German football defender * Dubravko Ledić, former Bosnian football midfielder * Dubravko Mataković (canoeist), Croatian slalom canoer * Dubravko Mataković (illustrator), Croatian comics artist * Dubravko Merlić, Croatian television journalist, producer and author * Dubravko Pavličić, Croatian football player * Dubravko Posavec, Bosnian ice hockey player * Dubravko Šimenc, Croatian water polo player * Dubravko Škiljan, Croatian linguist * Dubravko Tešević Dubravko "Dubi" Tešević (born December 18, 1981 in Foča, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian professional Association football, footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivo Brešan
Ivan "Ivo" Brešan (27 May 1936 – 3 January 2017) was a Croatian and Yugoslav playwright, novelist and screenwriter, known for political satire. His work included screenplays written with his son Vinko. Personal life Born in Vodice 1936, Brešan attended Antun Vrančić High School in Šibenik. He was married Croatian writer Jelena Godlar, a Jew of Slavonia native. In February 1964, she gave to birth their son Vinko, today a film director. Ivo's wife Jelena died on 20 September 2016. He died after long and severe illness, on 3 January 2017 in Zagreb, aged 80. Screenplays * 1973 – '' Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja'' * 1976 – '' Izbavitelj'' * 1980 – ''The Secret of Nikola Tesla'' * 1986 – '' Obećana zemlja'' * 1989 – '' Donator'' * 1996 – ''How the War Started on My Island'' * 2000 – ''Marshal Tito's Spirit'' * 2004 – ''Libertas Libertas (Latin for 'liberty' or 'freedom', ) is the Roman goddess and personification of liberty. She became a politicis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Kušan
Ivan Kušan (30 August 1933 – 20 November 2012) was a Croatian writer. Kušan was born in Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the family of Jakša Kušan, a bookstore owner. The family moved to Zagreb in 1939. At the age of ten Ivan discovered his writing talent and wrote his first novel. Later, Kušan discovered a taste for world travel and visual arts. In the 1950s he worked on Radio Zagreb. From 1980 to 1994 he taught at the Drama Arts Academy of University of Zagreb. He published his first book in 1956. His specialty became children's novels, and some of them, like ''Lažeš, Melita'' and ''Koko u Parizu'', became very popular. In the later stages of his writing career, Kušan found a taste for erotic fiction. He also wrote a novel about famous outlaw Jovo Stanisavljević Čaruga, later adapted into 1991 motion picture. Personal life Kušan was married twice and had one son from his first marriage. He had several strokes from which he never recovered, which ultimately led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleks Sierz
Aleks Sierz is a British theatre critic. He is known for coining the term "In-yer-face theatre", which was the title of a book he published in 2001. Sierz was educated at Manchester University and holds a PhD from Westminster University. He works as a freelance writer and has written for publications including ''Tribune'', ''The Arts Desk'' and ''The Stage'', as well as newspapers such as ''The Independent''. He co-edits ''Theatre Voice''. He is a visiting professor at Rose Bruford College, and has been a lecturer on Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...'s "Study Abroad" programme in London. His publications include *''In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today'' (Faber, 2001) *''The Theatre of Martin Crimp'' (Methuen, 2006) *''John Osborne's Look B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In-yer-face Theatre
In-yer-face theatre is a term used to describe a confrontational style and sensibility of drama that emerged in Great Britain in the 1990s. This term was borrowed by British theatre critic Aleks Sierz as the title of his book, ''In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today'', first published by Faber and Faber in March 2001. An adjunct faculty member in Boston University's London graduate journalism programme, and co-editor of TheatreVoice, Sierz uses ''in-yer-face theatre'' to describe work by young playwrights who present vulgar, shocking, and confrontational material on stage as a means of involving and affecting their audiences. Etymology With respect to "in-your-face", Aleks Sierz wrote: Sierz has been mistakenly cited as coining the term "In-yer-face theatre", saying that "Although I certainly was the first to describe, celebrate and theorise this kind of new writing, which emerged decisively in the mid-1990s, I certainly did not invent the phrase." In his piece "A brief h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steel Magnolias (play)
''Steel Magnolias'' is a stage play by American writer Robert Harling, based on his experience with his sister's death. The play is a comedy-drama about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana. The title suggests the "female characters are as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel". The magnolia specifically references a magnolia tree they are arguing about at the beginning. Synopsis Set in the fictional northwestern Louisiana parish of Chinquapin, the play opens at Truvy's in-home beauty parlor where a group of women regularly gather. They discuss Shelby's upcoming wedding to her fiancé, Jackson. The plot covers events over the next three years relating to Shelby's Type 1 diabetes, and with how the women cope with their conflicts, while remaining friends: Shelby's decision to have a child despite jeopardizing her health, Clairee's friendship with the curmudgeon Ouiser; Annelle's transformation from a shy, anxious newcomer in town to a good-time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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