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AWARDS OF THE 6TH TIBA FESTIVAL
Jury of the 6th TIBA Festival, consisting of:
Canan Kirimsoy, dramaturg from Turkey, Irena Kraus, playwright and dramaturg from Sweden and Ana Djordjevic, director from Serbia, made a unanimous decision that the GRAND PRIX of the Festival be awarded to the play ‘Story of a Family’ by Compagnia Rodisio from Italy.
This play is an irresistibly warm, vibrant, warning and surprising little reconstruction
of life of a typical modern family, a life that, based on a desperate search
of happiness and harmony, constant striving towards something better, more secure,
more comfortable, more healthy, loses its fundamental meaning.
Artistically the most rounded production of this festival, ‘Story of a
Family’, even though it addresses a very demanding subject, resisted the
temptation of psychologisation, as well as that of being overly didactical.
It wins us over with its fresh, unconventional and yet simple form, it keeps
us alert and engaged even during risky repetitions that are essential for its
style, it thrills us with its courage and energy and leads us to emotional excitement
that makes this play a model theatre event.
If a criterion for good theatre is truthfulness, then this award goes to the
right hands.
The Jury has made a unanimous decision that the Special Prize for New Theatre Trends of the 6th TIBA festival be awarded to the play ‘Dronte etc, Stories of Extinction’, by Krepsko Company from Czech Republic.
Based in part on traditional elements of Czech children’s theatre, Krepsko
company has created their own unique theatre style in this production, a style
that is an unusual and exciting blend of absurdist theatre, surrealism, the
poetic and the grotesque, elements of puppetry, clowning and acrobatics, and
entirely devoid of the verbal, in order to tackle the most profound existential
issues. This makes this play stand out from the rest of the selection and can
serve as an example of freedom in creating an authors’ children’s
theatre beyond the boundaries of genres.