World Theatre Day
»Theatre can tell us everything,« says Anatoli Vassiliev, Russian theatre director, at the World Theatre Day
In 2014, theatres in Slovenia organised on average 13 performances per day, 7 of them were drama and 3 puppet shows. In addition, there were on average 5 performances per day in houses of culture and cultural institutions.
The initiative to celebrate 27 March as World Theatre Day was given in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI). The day has been celebrated for over half a century through various national and international events and the release of a special message by a well-known theatre creator, this year by the Russian theatre director and professor Mr Anatoli Vassiliev.
Theatre performances and attendance, Slovenia, 2014
Sourse: SURS
Theatres in Slovenia seen through statistics
Professional theatres
In the 2004–2014 period professional theatres in Slovenia organised at their headquarters from 3,800 to 6,100 performances per year; the most (6,124) in 2004 and the fewest (3,776) in 2009.
In 2014, for which the latest data are available, they organised 4,748 performances. More than 52% of shows were drama and almost 23% were puppet shows. The remaining shows were opera (almost 3%), ballet (just over 2%), other dance shows (more than 7%) and performances by research theatres (5%) and theatres not classified into any of the above types (8%). The shares of theatrical performances by type were similar to the previous years.
In the 2004–2014 period theatres prepared and implemented between 200 and 450 new performances per year, the most in 2012. In 2014 the number was 287.
Theatres toured with their performances in other theatres and houses of culture in Slovenia and abroad; most performances on tours were recorded in 2012 (2,744) and the fewest in 2008 (only 1,840); in 2014 the number was 2,089.
Houses of culture and cultural institutions
Theatregoers in Slovenia could also attend performances in houses of culture and in cultural institutions. The number grew from 952 performances in 2004 to 2,177 in 2012, and then fell in the next two years to 1,813 performances in 2014.
Houses of culture and cultural institutions also organise theatre festivals. In 2014, they organised 24 of them. The most productive year was 2011, when houses of culture and cultural institutions organised 32 theatre festivals. According to the Web Portal of Slovene performing arts - SIGLEDAL, in 2015 more than 20 theatre festivals of different genre were organised, including street theatre, modern dance, etc.
Theatres and theatregoers
From 2004 on performances in Slovene theatres were attended on average by more than 850,000 persons per year. In 2014, they were attended by 745,400 theatregoers or on average by 157 per performance.
The Eurobarometer survey on cultural access and participation in the EU, which was conducted in April and May 2013, shows:
- how many people in individual countries visited the theatre at least once in the 12 months before the interview: attendance in Slovenia was 33%; it was the highest (54%) both in Sweden and the Netherlands and the lowest (13%) in Portugal; the EU average was 28%,
- why some people did not visit a theatre: 36% of people in Slovenia stated lack of interest (the same as the EU average), 27% stated lack of time (EU average: 22%), 18% thought that performances were too expensive (EU average: 20 %), 10% stated limited choice or poor quality of performances in the place where they lived (EU average: 12%), and the remaining 9% stated other reasons (EU average: 10%).
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