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Exalted periphery : the confusing case of Lero Student Theatre in Dubrovnik, Croatia
ID Čale Feldman, Lada (Author), ID Zajec, Urška (Resume translator)

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Abstract
The article analyses the intriguing geocultural and chronopolitical/poetic position of the Dubrovnik-based Studentski teatar Lero (Lero Student Theatre), founded in 1968. In the more than fifty years of its uninterrupted existence, the group has maintained firm ideological and expressive links to the progressivist and cosmopolitan European historical avant-gardes and post-avant-gardes while at the same time holding on just as firmly to Dubrovnik’s cultural heritage, literary tradition and a kind of isolated nostalgia for the times when this city was an independent state and a thriving cultural centre of southeastern Europe. The latter, highly aestheticised and oneiric tendency in Lero’s poetics, staged in an all-female cast, has crystallised more and more over the last thirty years under the direction of Davor Mojaš, clashing bizarrely with the more subversive aspects of his avant-garde strategies and a kind of melancholic feminist politics of history. Lero Student Theatre thus represents a confusing case of a relatively long-lived, internationally recognised and yet deliberately peripheral artistic project that demands its own interpretative framework and even defies the logic of local reproduction of the centre-periphery model.

Language:English
Keywords:Lero Student Theatre, Dubrovnik, Croatia, geocultural space, chronopoetics, feminist revision
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:AGRFT - Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:01.01.2025
Year:2025
Number of pages:Str. 160-173
Numbering:Let. 13, št. 1
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-179140 This link opens in a new window
UDC:792.02(497.5Dubrovnik)
ISSN on article:1855-4539
DOI:10.51937/Amfiteater-2025-1/160-173 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:240663043 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:06.02.2026
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Title:Amfiteater : revija za teorijo scenskih umetnosti
Publisher:Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo, Društvo gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije, Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo, Društvo gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije, Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo, Slovenski gledališki inštitut, Slovenski gledališki inštitut, = Slovenian Theatre Institute, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, = University of Ljubljana Press
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Vzvišeno obrobje
Abstract:
Članek analizira zanimivo geokulturno in kronopolitično/poetično pozicijo dubrovniškega Študentskega gledališča Lero, ustanovljenega leta 1968. Skupina neprekinjeno deluje že več kot petdeset let, pri čemer ohranja močne ideološke in izrazne povezave s progresivističnimi in kozmopolitskimi evropskimi zgodovinskimi avantgardami in postavantgardami, enako predano pa goji tudi dubrovniško kulturno dediščino, literarno tradicijo ter tudi nekakšno izolirano nostalgijo po časih, ko je bilo to mesto samostojna država in pomembno kulturno središče jugovzhodne Evrope. Zadnja omenjena, izrazito estetizirana in onirična težnja v poetiki Lera, je vse jasnejša zadnjih trideset let pod vodstvom režiserja Davorja Mojaša, a je tudi v bizarnem protislovju z bolj subverzivnimi vidiki Mojaševih avantgardnih strategij in melanholične feministične politike zgodovine. Gledališče Lero tako predstavlja zapleten primer dolgotrajnega, mednarodno priznanega, a namenoma obrobno umeščenega umetniškega projekta, ki zahteva lasten interpretativni okvir in se upira logiki lokalne reprodukcije modela središče-periferija.

Keywords:Študentsko gledališče Lero, Dubrovnik, Hrvaška, geokulturni prostor, kronopoetika, feministična (re)vizija

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Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:P6-0376-2018
Name:Gledališke in medumetnostne raziskave

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