ABSTRACT
The growth in both attendance and productions, which we have spoken about
in past editions of World of Theatre, continued in the last three seasons in all
branches of Slovenian theatre life, including opera and ballet. We can speak of a
growth of 8% in the last three theatrical seasons from 1997/98 to 2000/01 with
regard to the attendance and 22% for the number of staged works. Statistically,
if in 1992 one in three Slovenians visited a theatre performance, in 2000 the
figure was one in two. This can partly be attributed to the growth of commercial
theatres with popular and boulevard comedies. In 2000 two commercial theatres
around Ljubljana registered more visitors than the National Drama Theatre in
Ljubljana. Especially during the summer time there is a growing number of
festivals, which enable the same performances to be seen in other surroundings
than those for which they were originally conceived.
