Diego de Brea
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Life and work
Diego de Brea studied comparative literature and art history at the Faculty of Arts in LjubljanaLjubljana
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. In 1995, he started studying theatre direction the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
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In 1999, his graduation piece, The Birth of Light, won an award at the International Student Production Theatre Festival in Brno
Brno
Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...
. He has authored a number of well-known performances in Slovenian repertory and non-institutional theatres. He tackles many genres ranging from youth pieces and puppet shows (even a puppet opera), to self-authored projects, classical and contemporary texts as well as musical vaudeville. In Italy
Italy
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, he directed a self-authored project Leonora, starring the opera singer Eleonora Jankovich and based on Wagner’s motifs.
His performances toured both in Slovenia and abroad - in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, at the Varna
Varna
Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...
Festival in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
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, at the Mladi levi and Exodos Festivals, in London
London
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, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Antwerp, Mons, Dortmund and at the Iberoamericano Festival in Bogotá
Bogotá
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, Colombia
Colombia
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Honours, awards and recognitions
His self-authored project Duel (Glej Theatre), received a special award at the Borštnik Drama Meeting. In 2005, de Brea received the aesthetic breakthrough award at the same festival for his performances Queen MargotQueen Margot
Queen Margot or La Reine Margot may refer to:* Margaret of Valois, first wife of Henry IV of France* La Reine Margot , by Alexandre Dumas, based on Marguerite de Valois' life* La Reine Margot , starring Louis de Funès...
and Edward II. He also received the Golden Bird Award for theatre in 2002.
Major works
Pilot – hommage to Srečko KosovelSrecko Kosovel
Srečko Kosovel was a Slovene expressionist poet who evolved towards avant-garde forms. Since the 1960s, Kosovel has become a poetic icon, in the league of the most prestigious Slovene literates like France Prešeren and Ivan Cankar. Together with Edvard Kocbek, he is considered as the most...
, AGRFT, 1996/7
Federico – poetry by Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...
, MGL, 1999
Oton Župančič
Oton Župancic
Oton Župančič was a Slovene poet, translator and playwright.Župančič is regarded, alongside Ivan Cankar, Dragotin Kette and Josip Murn, as the beginner of modernism in Slovenian literature...
: Veronica of Desenice, Šentjakobsko Theatre, 2000
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...
: Exit the King, PDG Drama Theatre Nova Gorica, 2000
Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse
Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse was an American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction...
: Chicago, SGL Celje, 2002
Duel, GLEJ Theatre, 2002
Roland Schimmelpfenning: Arabian Night, SNG Nova Gorica, 2005
Alfred de Vigny
Alfred de Vigny
Alfred Victor de Vigny was a French poet, playwright, and novelist.-Life:Alfred de Vigny was born in Loches into an aristocratic family...
: Chatterton, Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Drama Ljubljana, 2004
Ivan Cankar
Ivan Cankar
Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature...
: A Scandal in Saint Florian's Valley, SNG Nova Gorica, 2005
Alexandre Dumas: Queen Margot, Mladinsko theatre
Mladinsko Theatre
Mladinsko Theatre , founded in Ljubljana in 1955 as the first professional theater for children and youth in Slovenia...
, Ljubljana, 2005
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May...
: Edward II, SNG Drama Ljubljana, 2005
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May...
: Doctor Faustus, SNG Nova Gorica, 2006
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:...
: The Damned, Mladinsko Theatre
Mladinsko Theatre
Mladinsko Theatre , founded in Ljubljana in 1955 as the first professional theater for children and youth in Slovenia...
, Ljubljana, 2006
Jean Genet
Jean Genet
Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...
: The Maids, SNG Drama Ljubljana, 2007