Levitan Vitomila Zupana na gledališkem odru

The theatre staging of Vitomil Zupan’s novel Levitan (1982) is an area of the author’s creative work that has yet to be researched. In 1985, director Ljubiša Ristić adapted Zupan’s text on prison experience in collaboration with the Slovenian Youth Theatre company (Slovensko mladinsko gledališče). This literary adaptation is an example of the new postdramatic theatre approach to the staging of the (modern Slovenian) novel. The present paper investigates extraliterary and intraliterary elements of the process in which Zupan’s non-dramatic text is transferred to the theatre medium. As this collective creation came about without a fixed text, and simultaneously with Reality) (Resničnost), in some aspects the paper also refers comparatively to the novel by Lojze Kovačič and its staging.