Edip

Yugoslav Drama Theatre

Sophocles, one of the three classics of Greek tragedy (alongside Aeschylus and Euripides), wrote over 130 works, of which only a few have been preserved: Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Trachiniae, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus. Of all these works, the most famous in antiquity was the tragedy Oedipus the King, which Aristotle in his work 'Poetics' states is a perfect model of tragedy. Slovenian director Vito Taufer graduated in directing at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana in 1985. Since then, he has directed over 100 drama plays, several operas, and one feature film. He has collaborated with numerous theaters throughout the former Yugoslavia and has received numerous important theater awards and recognitions, including several Borštnik Awards, several Lovro's Wreaths from the Sarajevo MESS, Sterija's Awards, Marul Awards from Marulić Days, Prešeren Award... In 1996, Taufer received a Special Bitef Award for the play Silence Silence Silence produced by the Slovenian Youth Theatre in Ljubljana. He has directed works by Gogol, Krleža, Ionesco, Shakespeare, Beckett, Sophocles, Chekhov...