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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.

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.

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.

At Theresienburg, in Hungary, Ramong Gejza, a young Austro-Hungarian ober-lieutenant who has committed a suicide, is being buried.

This play of one of the leading contemporary German writers is loosely based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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.