Il TEATRO STABILE SLOVENO, unico teatro stabile pubblico italiano di lingua non italiana, è l’ente culturale di maggior rilievo della minoranza slovena che nel nostro Paese vive nelle province di Trieste, Gorizia e Udine. Nacque, come vero e proprio teatro stabile, nel 1907. Distrutto dall’incendio di matrice fascista del Narodni dom (Centro culturale ed economico degli Sloveni) del 1920, rinacque, primo teatro stabile dell’Italia di oggi, nel 1945. Dal 1964 ha sede presso il Kulturni dom, costruito in risarcimento del Narodni dom. Come teatro di minoranza, il TEATRO STABILE SLOVENO gode di una fisionomia del tutto particolare. Accanto all’affermazione dell’identità culturale della minoranza slovena, in quanto teatro di frontiera ha sempre riconosciuto fra i propri scopi e ruoli quello di costituire un importante ponte tra i due mondi culturali che a Trieste si incontrano, quello Italiano e quello Sloveno.
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Marca 1902 je bilo v Trstu ustanovljeno Dramatično društvo. Le nekaj tednov zatem je bila pripravljena prva uprizoritev slovenske stalne gledališke družine v Trstu. Leta 1904 se je slovensko gledališko življenje naselilo v Narodnem domu, ki pa so ga fašisti 13.julija 1920 požgali. S tem barbarskim dejanjem je bilo slovensko gledališko snovanje iz Trsta pregnano za četrt stoletja. V prvem razdobju neprekinjenega delovanja, od sezone 1902-1903 do sezone 1919-1920 je gledališče uprizorilo kar 245 dramskih del iz široko zasnovanega repertoarja, tako v pogledu svetovne dramatike, kakor seveda slovenskih izvirnih dramskih del. Poleg tega je uprizorilo tudi 19 del v okviru opernega, operetnega in baletnega programa. Z zmago nad nacifašizmom se je v osvobojenem Trstu 2.decembra 1945 z uprizoritvijo Jernejeve pravice slovensko gledališče ponovno utemeljilo kot poklicno in stalno. V prvih dveh desetletjih delovanja,od sezone 1945-46 do sezone 1964-65, je zaživelo 169 samostojnih predstav. Šele 5.decembra 1964 so z otvoritvijo Kulturnega doma v Petronijevi ulici tržaški Slovenci znova dobili svoj prostor za kulturno delovanje. Od sezone 1964-65 do sezone 2003-2004 je gledališče uprizorilo še nadaljnih 254 del. V zadnjem obdobju je naše gledališče s povečano pozornostjo nagovorilo italijanski govoreči prostor, kar se kaže v abonmaju s podnapisi v italijanskem jeziku in s sodelovanjem z italijanskimi gledališči. Prav tako Slovensko stalno gledališče širi in poglablja vsakdanjo, ustvarjalno vez z osrednjeslovenskim prostorom.
Some about the history of the Slovenian Theatre
Slovenian Repertory Theatre in Triest is the most prominent cultural institution of the Slovenian national minority in Italy. The begginings of the theatre date back to the mid-nineteen century. At the time, multi-national Triest, the greatest port of the Austro-Hunagarian Empire the surroundings of wich were populated exclusively by Slovenes, was the center of intense theatrical activity. Slovenian Theatre, the second professional Slovenian theatre after the Drama SNG in Ljubljana, was founded in 1907. After The First World War, Triest and its numerous Slovenian inhabitants were annexed to Italy. In 1920, Triest experienced the violence of the emerging fascism, when the National Hall housing the theatre was burnt down. Soon afterwards all the Slovenian societies and organizations were dismissed, and all cultural economic and sports activities banned. The Slovenian Theatre was thus reborn only after the Second World War, in 1945, in the British-American zone of the Free Teritory of Triest, wich Triest belonged to until 1954 when it again became part of Italy. Thanks to its rich tradition and high artistic quality, in 1977 the authorities granted the Theatre the status of “repertory theatre” with a permantent seat and public administration. This was great honour, considering that only few theatres in Italy had this status. The founders of the Slovenian Repertory Theatre were the representative of the Slovenian national comunity in Italy, the Municipality of Triest, the Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The repertoire of the Theatre is varied and covers the most important plays all over the world, but the main emphasis is on its role of a bridge between two cultural world- The Slovene and the Italian.