Theatrical Company of the Blind
and Visually Impaired
NEW LIFE (NOVI ZIVOT)
Hrvatska - Zagreb - Croatia
Founded in 1948, and until 1986 the only blind theatre company in
Europe!
All translations from Croatian into English
by prof. Anadea Cupic
Address: Dramski studio slijepih i slabovidnih "NOVI ZIVOT",
10000 Zagreb, Senoina 32, Croatia
tel.: ++ 385 1 48 12 502, +385 1 48 12 066
fax.: ++ 3851 1 48 40 091
e-mail: teatar-slijepih@zg.htnet.hr
www.novizivot.hr
THEATRICAL COMPANY OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY
IMPAIRED NEW LIFE
The theatrical company of the blind and visually impaired
New life performed its first theatricals precisely
on 21 March 1948. Since the audience of the town
of Zagreb, truly amused, showed great enthusiasm for the acting
of the blind performers, such reaction stimulated the Group to continue
its activity, thus becoming the first blind theatrical company in
Europe. New Life staged the plays by most famous
national and foreign playwrights. In
the last five years, the Group has focused on the Theatre of the Absurd
and surrealism. By giving about 60 performances a year, plus one or two
opening nights,
New Life was placed on top of the Croatian
amateurism. However, rather a long time ago, New
Life's quality of presenting spectacle indicated beforehand
that another professional Zagreb theatrical company was forthcoming.
Touring all over Europe became a habit of the Group; for quite a long
time, the invitations to come
and visit the United States of America and Australia have been an
option for the future which New Life is seriously
taking into consideration.
The library of the New Life has
the Bible printed in the Braille alphabet and in Croatian language,
consisting of 39 volumes (150 pp each). Of course, the library has also
audio recordings of the Bible in Croatian.
The company has contacts with:
- National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped, The Library of Congress,
Frank Kurt Cylke
(Director), 1291 Taylor
Street NW, Washington, DC 20542, USA
- Deutsche Blindenstdienanstalt e.v. - Bidungs - und
Hilfsmittelzentrum für Elektronik und Hilfsmittel nbH
der Deutschen Blindenstudienanstalt, Arbeitsgemenischaft der
Blindenhörb;ücherein e V.
Jürgen Hertlein (Direktor), Am Schalg 8,
D-3550 Marburg
Related web sites:
- Croatian
Association of the Blind
- Udruga
slijepih zupanije Istarske
- Udruga
slijepih (Association of the blind people), Sisak
- Udruga slijepih Zagreb
- CARITAS
- Hrvatska
udruga paraplegicara i tetraplegicara
(HUPT)
- Croatian
Association of the Depah and Hard of Hearing
- Studentski
projekt za gluhonijeme, Filozofski fakultet Druzbe Isusove,
Zagreb (a student project for deaf-mute persons, Faculty of
Philosophy of the
Society of Jesus, Zagreb)
- Children's
village,
Croatia
- The Lipik Orphanage and Colonel
Mark Cook
- Theatre
Companies with Performers with Disabilities, National Arts and
Disability
Center, UCLA, USA
- MACULA LUTEA, Harry's visible links, Sweden
- MACULA LUTEA, INTERNATIONAL LINKS IN COUNTRY
ORDER, by Harry Svenosson, Sweden
On this web since July 1996
Maintained by Darko
Zubrinic
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