Hamlet, the most famous and the most often performed Shakespeare’s tragedy, has been intriguing and thrilling the generations of theatre artists and viewers all over the world for more than four centuries. The exciting story tells of a Danish prince who is frenetically trying to find the cause of his father’s sudden death, getting involved in family secrets and state affairs. The search for the killer, the search for the meaning of life, love and death are just some parts of this magnificent tragedy of the immortal bard.

One of the best known novels of the Russian novelist Dostoyevsky, The Possessed is not only a chronicle of a small, provincial Russian town. It is a mixture of a melodramatic love story and political thriller about the early socialists and anarchists trying to overthrow the existent regime.

Charuga, a comedy by the Croatian writer, playwright and translator Ivan Kušan, is a superbly witty text about the outlaw Charuga, or (as the writer himself stresses out in the subtitle) a painful, but authentic tragedy of Mister Juraj Ardonjak from the village of Feričanci in Slavonia, who was murdered under the most unusual circumstances because of the love that his unfaithful and lecherous wife felt for the surveyor Boris Možbolt...

Comedy-ballet of the greatest French comedist Molière and the great master of baroque music, the composer Lully, is one of the best works of that very peculiar genre. In this work, comic prose parts are accompanied by dance intermezzos and sung parts. The Bourgeois Gentleman is a work which speaks with a lot of humour about the frantic desire of a rich parvenu to achieve social success, convinced that money can buy everything from manners to friends and social status. However, there are many obstacles on this way towards social success and our parvenu will have a hard time discovering that everybody can be ridiculed and fooled.

Adventurer at the Door is one of the most famous and one of the best plays by Milan Begović, the classic of Croatian Modernist literature, whose works unite the experience of modernism between the two wars and a true literary talent.

The short novel by Horace McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? was published in the United States in 1935 and immediately attracted both the readers and the critics.

At the height of the World War I, Miroslav Krleža, a great artist of words, writer, poet and playwright, wrote his Kraljevo which is with good reason considered the first expressionist work not only in Croatia, but in Central Europe as well.

Büchner’s master-piece Danton’s Death is not only a play about the French Revolution. It is a play about all revolutions which in the end devour their own children, and a play about a friendship which will result in cruelty and final settlement between the two revolutionaries: Robespierre and Danton.

The last work of the immortal bard, the most often performed playwright in the history of theatre, nostalgically evokes some other worlds governed by justice, not by revenge, governed by love, not by hatred, peace instead of the meaningless busyness.

The trilogy of the American Nobel-winning author, with the opening night in 1931 in the United States, takes as its starting point a story from the Greek mythology and places it into the time of the American Civil War, but its eternal subject of murder, adultery, revenge, incestuous love and the family destruction after the bloody war, becomes a general drama of us all.

The masterpiece of the Croatian renaissance literature, Marin Držić’s comedy Uncle Maroje, is one of the gems of the Croatian drama literature and a brilliant work in which the author humorously describes Dubrovnik and its citizens who happened to find themselves in the Italian metropolis Rome.

The Wife of Hasan-Agha, a play in verses, written by Milan Ogrizović, served as the basis upon which our actor and director Mustafa Nadarević has written his version of the famous ballad, recorded in 1774, about the tragic destiny of the wife of a Turkish agha.

What happens if you have a sick friend you visit all the time, if your aunt loves order and being organized, and if your life only gets more and more complicated because you are falling in love with the wrong person, until in the end, after endless turns and comic complications, the most incredible things get revealed, which change both your past and your present?

What is a Man without a Moustache, the humoristic novel written by the journalist and novelist Ante Tomić, remains the number one on the reading list since its publishing. The director Aida Bukvić thought it was the time to put the hilariously funny characters of the novel on the stage.