''Europe Today'' is a theatre show produced in cooperation between

East West Theatre Company East West Theatre Company (Bosnian: East West Centar) was established in 2005 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a nonprofit cultural institution which produces performing arts programs, publications, films, and music events. It also organ ...

and Slovene National Theatre. The show is based on an essay written by Miroslav Krleza and directed by

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. Production also included

Miki Manojlovic Miki may refer to: Places * Miki, Hyōgo, a city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan * Miki, Kagawa, a town in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan * Miki, Azerbaijan, a village in Astara Rayon, Azerbaijan People * Miki (given name) * Miki (surname) * Miki Núñez ...

, an actor;

Edward Clug Edward Clug (born 1973 in Beiuș, SR Romania) is an international renowned choreographer in the field of contemporary ballet and a director of Maribor Ballet. Clug studied classical ballet in Cluj-Napoca.Laibach Laibach () is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with the industrial, martial, and neo-classical genres. Formed in the mining town of Trbovlje (at the time in Yugoslavia) in 1980, Laibach represents the musical wing of the Neue Slo ...

. The dramaturgy of the production was done by Dubravka Vrgoc, director of Zagreb Youth Theatre. The artists, who reside in Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, rehearsed in

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's Slovene National Theatre during February 2011. The show opened February 16 and it provoked great regional and international interest. The poster image for ''Europe Today'' depicts an SA-style trooper, but instead of the swastika, his armband and the flag he carries show the 12 stars of the EU. The image is partly playful, a homage to the

Neue Slowenische Kunst Neue Slowenische Kunst (; NSK; German: "New Slovenian Art") is a political art collective that formed in Slovenia in 1984, when the Socialist Republic of Slovenia was part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. NSK's name was chosen to refl ...

art movement whose most prominent exponents, the band

Laibach Laibach () is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with the industrial, martial, and neo-classical genres. Formed in the mining town of Trbovlje (at the time in Yugoslavia) in 1980, Laibach represents the musical wing of the Neue Slo ...

, are collaborators in this Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian-Slovenian-Romanian-created work, which in 2011 played in

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and

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its a ...

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. The show is a 75-minute collage of words and images: Serbian actor

Miki Manojlović Predrag "Miki" Manojlović ( sr-cyr, Предраг "Мики" Манојловић; born 5 April 1950) is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of former Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he su ...

recites Krleža’s words, Romanian-born dancer and choreographer

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; published April 23, 2011 (accessed January 17, 2012)

References

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