The Slovene Civic Theatre in Trieste (
Slovene: ''Slovensko stalno gledališče'';
Italian
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: ''Teatro Stabile Sloveno'') is the professional theatre of the
Slovene minority in
Trieste
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. The building was designed in the 1960s by
Edo Mihevc
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, a
Slovene architect of Trieste descent.
History
On 8 March 1902, its predecessor, the Slovene Drama Society, was established in Trieste. In 1904, the theatre moved to the
National Hall
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building. It had premiered 245 works by 1920, when it was burned by
Italian Fascists, and it was prohibited during the
Fascist Italianization
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period between the 1920s and 1945.
[History of the Slovene Theatre in Trieste](_blank)
(in Slovene and Italian), official website
After World War II, the theater did not have its own fixed location until 1964, when it received its present location at Petronio Street no. 4. It premiered 254 works between the 1964/65 and 2003/04 seasons.
Today
It is visited by students from schools with
Slovene as the language of instruction, both from
Trieste
Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into prov ...
and in
Littoral Slovenia. It also offers subtitles for visitors that speak only Italian.
References
Buildings and structures in Trieste
Event venues established in 1902
1902 establishments in Italy
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