CHRONOLOGICAL OVERVIEW OF ZLATKO BOUREK’S THEATRE OEUVRE

Source: Saša Došen: Poetics of the grotesque in the figure theater by Zlatko Bourek, 2017

 

1950

  • Unknown 15th century French author: THE FARCE OF MASTER PATHELIN (FARCE DE MAÎTRE PIERRE PATHELIN)
  • Farce
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Zlatko Omerbegović
  • Music: Miljenko Prohaska
  • Premiere: 28 November 1959
  • D’Amiens, Eustache: THE BUTCHER OF ABBEVILLE (LE BOUCHER D’ABBEVILLE)
  • 18th century fairy tale
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vojmir Viga
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Zlatko Omerbegović
  • Music: Miljenko Prohaska
  • Premiere: 28 November 1959

1960

  • Dostojevski, Fjodor Mihajlovič: THE IDIOT

  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Iso Velikanović
  • Adapted for the stage by: Georgij Paro and Božidar Violić
  • Directors: Georgij Paro i Božidar Violić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Emil Cossetto
  • Premiere: 6 March 1960

  • Fò, Dario: ARCHANGELS DON’T PLAY PINBALL (GLI ARCHANGELI NON GIOCANO AL FLIPPER)

  • Farce in three acts
  • Translation: Ivo Juriša
  • Director: Anton Marti
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec
  • Premiere: 21 May 1960

  • D’Amiens, Eustache: THE BUTCHER OF ABBEVILLE (LE BOUCHER D’ABBEVILLE)

  • 18th century fairy tale
  • Gavella Drama Theatre and Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik
  • Translation: Vojmir Viga
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 1 August 1960. Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Mrtvo zvono

  • Unknown 15th century French author: THE FARCE OF MASTER PATHELIN (FARCE DE MAÎTRE PIERRE PATHELIN)

  • Farce
  • Zagreb Dramatic Theatre and Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 4 August 1960, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Mrtvo zvono

  • Gogolj, Nikolaj Vasiljevič: THE WEDDING (ŽENIT’BA)

  • An absolutely impossible event in two acts
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Ivan Gojtan
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 1 December 1960

  • Matković, Marijan: ACHILLES’ HERITAGE (AHILOVA BAŠTINA)

  • Drama in two acts
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Marijan Matković
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Preview: 15 February 1961

  • Budak, Pero: SILENCE, WE’RE SHOOTING! (TIŠINA, SNIMAMO!)

  • Comedy in four acts
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Set design: Miše Račić
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Preview: 18 February 1961

  • Unknown 17th century Dubrovnik author: LOVERS (LJUBOVNICI)

  • Comedy in three acts
  • Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Đelo Jusić.
  • Premiere: 2 August 1961, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Gundulićeva poljana

  • Carimosa, Domenico: THE SECRET MARRIAGE (IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO)

  • A cheerful melodrama in two acts
  • City Theatre Komedija, Zagreb
  • Written by: Giovanni Bertati
  • Translation: Kruno Quien
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Conductor: Miro Belamarić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 7 October 1961

1962

  • Goldoni, Carlo: THE ARTFUL WIDOW (LA VEDOVA SCARLA)

  • Comedy in three acts
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Frano Čale
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Luigi Boccherini
  • Choreography: Rudolf Zubčić
  • Premiere: 1 March 1962

  • Majakovski, Vladimir Vladimirovič: THE BATHHOUSE (BANJA)

  • City Theatre Komedija, Zagreb
  • Translation: Aleksandar Flaker
  • Director: Nikola Petrović
  • Set Design: Ljubo Petričić
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 13 October 1962

  • Feydeau, Georges: THE TURKEY (LE DINDON)

  • Comedy in three acts
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Mladen Škiljan
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set design: Miše Račić
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 19 May 1963

1964

  • Šostakovič, Dmitrij Dmitrijevič: KATERINA IZMAILOVA OR LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK (KATERINA IZMAJLOVA ILI LEDI MAGBET MCENSKOGO UEZDA)

  • Opera in four acts (8 tableaux)
  • Written by Anton Preis and D. D. Šostakovič based on Nikolaj Semjonovič Ljeskov’s LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Stanko Gašparović
  • Director: Kosta Spaić
  • Conductor: Milan Horvat
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Inge Kostinčer
  • Premiere: 7 January 1964

  • Cindrić, Pavao: GLORY TO ŠENOA (SLAVA ŠENOI)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Rudolf Zubčić
  • Preview: 9 February 1964

  • Šenoa, August: LJUBICA

  • Original satirical play
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Adapted for the stage by: Božidar Violić
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 9 February 1964

  • Shakespeare, William: TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL

  • Comedy in five acts
  • Dubrovnik Summer Festival Drama Ensemble and Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik
  • Translation: Milan Bogdanović
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Artistic associate director: Izet Hajdarhodžić
  • Set design: Zvonko Šuler
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Miljenko Prohaska
  • Premiere: 12 July 1964, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Mali gradec

  • Sartre, Jean-Paul: THE DEVIL AND THE GOOD LORD (LE DIABLE ET LE BON DIEU)

  • Drama in three acts (12 tableaux)
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Davor Šošić
  • Director: Dino Radojević
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Jagoda Buić
  • Music: Bogdan Gagić
  • Premiere: 12 November 1964

  • Bulatović Vib, Vladimir: THE ALARM CLOCK (BUDILNIK)

  • Satirical collage in two parts
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Adapted by: Ljubomir Draškić
  • Director: Nikola Petrović
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec
  • Music: Zoran Hristić
  • Premiere: 10 December 1964

  • Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin: TARTUFFE (LE TARTUFFE OU L’IMPOSTEUR)

  • Comedy. Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set design: Miše Račić.
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 17 December 1964

 

1965

  • Bulatović Vib, Vladimir: THE ALARM CLOCK (BUDILNIK)

  • Satirical collage in two parts
  • Croatian National Theatre, Varaždin
  • Adapted by: Ljubomir Draškić
  • Director: Nikola Petrović
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec
  • Music: Zoran Hristić
  • Premiere: 28 January 1965

  • Hristić, Jovan: SAVONAROLA AND FRIENDS (SAVONAROLA I NJEGOVI PRIJATELJI)

  • Drama
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Set design: Miše Račić
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 27 February 1965

  • Šostakovič, Dmitrij Dmitrijevič: KATERINA IZMAILOVA OR LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK (KATERINA IZMAJLOVA ILI LEDI MAGBET MCENSKOGO UEZDA)

  • Opera in four acts (8 tableaux)
  • Based on Nikolaj Semjonovič Ljeskov’s novella LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK
  • Written by Anton Preis and D. D. Šostakovič.
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Stanko Gašparović
  • Director: Kosta Spaić
  • Conductor: Milan Horvat
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Inge Kostinčer
  • Music Biennale Zagreb
  • Premiere: 20 May 1965, Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb

  • Stravinski, Igor Fjodorovič: PULCINELLA

  • Ballet with a singing act
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Choreography: Ivica Sertić
  • Conductor: Boris Papandopulo
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 6 November 1965

  • Euripid: MEDEA (MĒDEIA)

  • Tragedy
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Bratoljub Klaić
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set design: Zvonimir Agbaba
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Ivica Boban
  • Sound engineer: Ruben Radica
  • Premiere: 21 November 1965

  • Švarc, Evgenij: THE DRAGON (ZMAJ)

  • Fairy tale in three acts
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Jure Kaštelan
  • Director: Vanča Kljaković
  • Set design: Miše Račić
  • Costume design: Inge Kostinčer
  • Mask design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 23 December 1965

1966

  • Ghelderode, Michel de: SCHOOL FOR BUFFOONS (L’ECOLE DES BOUFFONS)

  • Farce
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vjenceslav Kapural
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Set design: Kamilo Tompa
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Ivica Boban
  • Music: Natko Devčić
  • Premiere: 31 March 1966

  • Ghelderode, Michel de: ESCURIAL

  • Farce
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vjenceslav Kapural
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Set design: Kamilo Trompa
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Ivica Boban
  • Music: Natko Devčić.
  • Premiere: 31 March 1966

  • Šoljan, Antun: FACE (LICE)

  • Drama in three acts
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Nikola Vončina
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec
  • Premiere: 19 April 1966, Mala scena

  • Baranović, Krešimir: LICITAR (LICITARSKO SRCE)

  • Ballet in one act (3 tableaux)
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director and choreographer: Zvonimir Reljić
  • Conductor: Miro Belamarić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 11 November 1966

  • Kopit, Arthur: CHAMBER MUSIC

  • Drama in one act
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Antun Šoljan
  • Director: Petar Šarčević
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Premiere: 11 December 1966, Mala scena

  • Kopit, Arthur: THE DAY WHEN THE WHORES CAME OUT TO PLAY TENNIS

  • Drama in one act
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Antun Šoljan
  • Director: Petar Šarčević
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Premiere: 11 December 1966, Mala scena
  • 1967

  • Sutermeister, Heinrich: MAX AND MORITZ (MAX UND MORITZ)

  • Musical scenes in 4 tableaux with a prologue by Wilhelm Busch
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vladan Švacov
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Head of music studio: Nikša Bareza
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 1 November 1967, Moša Pijade Workers’ University

  • Křenek, Ernst: WHAT PRICE CONFIDENCE?

  • Comic opera in 9 tableaux
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Written by: Ernst Křenek
  • Translation: Vladan Švacov
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Head of music studio: Nikša Bareza
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 1 November 1967, Moša Pijade Workers’ University

  • Bjelinski, Bruno: CARNIVAL OF ILLUSIONS (KARNEVAL ILUZIJA)

  • Ballet in one act
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Libreto: Miljenko Vikić
  • Director and choreographer: Miljenko Vikić
  • Set design and mask design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec
  • Preview: 3 November 1967, Moša Pijade Workers’ University

  • Krleža, Miroslav: A STREET IN AN AUTUMN MORNING 1917 (ULICA U JESENJE JUTRO DEVETSTOSEDAMNAESTE)

  • Performed by: Miroslav Supanc
  • Program: Mladić nosi svoje prve pjesme na ogled. Ulica u jesenje jutro devetstosedamnaeste. Nad otvorenim grobom tužni zbore. Samo se   stihom može reći to… (A young man carries his first poems for review. A street in an autumn morning 1917. A sad chorus above an open grave. It can only be expressed in verse…)
  • Texts selected by: Miroslav Supanc
  • Set design associate: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Inge Kostinčer
  • Musical associate: Mladen Häusler
  • Matoš Evenings, Zagreb
  • Premiere: 27 November 1967, Croatian History Museum, Matoševa 9

  • Bach, Johann Sebastian: WE LOVE BACH (VOLIMO BACHA)

  • Ballet in one act
  •  The music of J. S. Bach interpreted by Jacques Loussier and Ward Swingl
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Idea and choreography: Ivica Sertić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec
  • Premiere: 1 December 1967, Moša Pijade Workers’ University

  • Walton, William: AT THE BEACH

  • Ballet in one act
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Idea and choreography: Ivica Sertić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec
  • Premiere: 1 December 1967, Moša Pijade Workers’ University

 

1968

  • Gazarović, Marin – Maroević, Tonko: THE LIFE AND SUFFERING OF SAINT CYPRIAN AND JUSTINE (PRIKAZANJE ŽIVOTA I MUKE SVETIH CIPRIJANA I JUSTINE)

  • Arranged according to M. Gazarović, a nobleman from Hvar in 1631
  • Adapted and supplemented according to T. Maroević of Stari Grad in 1968
  • Dubrovnik Summer Festival Drama Ensemble
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Conductor: Baldo Podić
  • Set design: Miše Račić
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Igor Kuljerić
  • Premiere: 11 August 1968, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Boškovićeva poljana

1969

  • Mikhalkov, Sergei Vladimirovich: RABBIT NOSE-IN-THE-AIR (ZAJKA-ZAZNAJKA)

  • Zagreb Youth Theater
  • Translation: Ivan Večerina
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec
  • Choreography: Branka Petričević
  • Music: Jose Birjukov
  • Premiere: 13 January 1969

  • Marivaux, Pierre: DOUBLE INCONSTANCE (LA DOUBLE INCONSTANCE)

  • Comedy in three acts
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vlado Habunek
  • Director: Vlado Habunek
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec
  • Premiere: 14 February 1969

  • Weiss, Peter: HOW MISTER MOCKINPOTT WAS CURED OF HIS SUFFERINGS (WIE DEM HERRN MOCKINPOTT DAS LEIDEN AUSGETRIEBEN WIRDE)

  • Play in 11 tableaux
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Tomislav Ladan
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Ivanka Šerbedžija
  • Premiere: 19 April 1969

  • Unknown 16th century English author: ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM

  • Tragedy
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translators: Flora and Tonko Maroević
  • Director: Tomislav Radić
  • Set design: Drago Turina
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 5 October 1969

  • Copland, Aaron: PRARIE JOURNAL

  • Ballet
  • Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka
  • Choreography: Ray Harrison
  • Conductor: Dušan Prašelj
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Premiere: 31 October 1969
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  • Barber, Samuel: ADAGIO

  • Ballet
  • Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka
  • Choreography: Ray Harrison
  • Conductor: Dušan Prašelj
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek.
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Premiere: 31 October 1969

  • Bowles, Paul: LET’S DANCE

  • Ballet
  • Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka
  • Choreography: Ray Harrison
  • Conductor: Dušan Prašelj
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Premiere: 31 October 1969

  • Bernstein, Leonard: IN THE CITY

  • Three dance episodes
  • Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka
  • Choreography: Ray Harrison
  • Conductor: Dušan Prašelj
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Premiere: 31 October 1969

  • Malec, Ivo: SIGMA

  • Ballet
  • Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka
  • Choreography: Ray Harrison
  • Conductor: Dušan Prašelj
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek.
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Premiere: 31 October 1969

  • Stravinski, Igor Fjodorovič: THE FIREBIRD (L’OISEAU DE FEU)

  • Ballet
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Choreography: Peter van Dyk
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Premiere: 29 November 1969

1970

  • Shaffer, Peter: BLACK COMEDY

  • Translation: Sonja Bašić
  • Komedija Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Relja Bašić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 31 January 1970

  • Krleža, Miroslav: THE KING’S FAIR (KRALJEVO)

  • Legend
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Dino Radojević
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Choreography: Nada Kokotović
  • Musical associate: Igor Kuljerić
  • Premiere: 10 October 1970

  • Donizetti, Gaetano: VIVA LA MAMMA (LE CONVENIENZE ED LE INCONVENIENZE TEATRALI)

  • Opera in two acts based on a comedy by Antonio Sografi
  • Komedija Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Nenad Turkalj
  • Director and conductor: Miro Belamarić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 30 December 1970

1971

  • Kelemen, Milko: THE STATE OF SIEGE (DER BELAGERUNGSZUSTAND)

  • Opera in two acts based on a drama by Albert Camus
  • Written by: Joachim Hess and Milko Kelemen
  • Director: Vlado Habunek
  • Conductor: Nikša Bareza
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Preview: 9 May 1971, Music Biennale Zagreb
  • Premiere: 26 October 1971, Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb

  • Ulrich, Boris: MULTIPLE VISION

  • Ballet in one act
  • Choreography: Frane Jelinčić
  • Conductor: Igor Kuljerić.
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Preview: 17 May 1971
  • Music Biennale Zagreb
  • Preview: 20 May 1971, Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb

  • Smetana, Bedřich: THE BARTERED BRIDE (PRODANÁ NEVĚSTA)

  • Comic opera in three acts
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Written by: Karel Sabina
  • Director: Petar Šarčević
  • Conductor: Nikša Bareza
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Choreography: Zvonimir Reljić and Zlatica Stepan
  • Premiere: 18 November 1971

  • Stravinski, Igor Fjodorovič: THE SOLDIER’S TALE (L’HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT)

  • Opera. Read, performed and danced
  • Written by: Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vjeran Zuppa
  • Director: Vladimir Gerić
  • Conductor: Aleksandar Kowalsky
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Nada Kokotović
  • Premiere: 22 December 1971

1972

  • Delibes, Clément Philibert Léo: COPPÉLIA (COPPÉLIA OU LA FILLE AUX YEUX D’ÉMAIL)

  • Ballet
  • Wuppertaler Bühnen, Wuppertal, Germany
  • Script: Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter and Arthur Saint-Léon Choreography: Ivan Sertić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 1971/1972

  • Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich: ROMEO AND JULIET (ROMEO I DŽUL’ETTA)

  • Balet in three acts (12 tableaux) based on the eponymous tragedy by William Shakespeare
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director and choreographer: Ivica Sertić
  • Conductor: Miro Belamarić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Preview: 6 February 1972

  • Lagerkvist, Pär Fabian: THE DWARF (DVÄRGEN)

  • Monodrama
  • Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik
  • Translation: Mihajlo Stojanović
  • Adapted by: Tomislav Radić
  • Director: Tomislav Radić
  •  Set design: Zvonko Šuler
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Performed by: Pero Juričić
  • Premiere: 5 March 1972

1973

  • Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich: THE TALE OF THE STONE FLOWER (KAMENI CVIJET)

  • Ballet
  • Wuppertaler Bühnen, Wuppertal, Germany
  • Choreography: Ivan Sertić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 1972/1973

  • Ghelderode, Michel de: ESCURIAL

  • Farce
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vjenceslav Kapural
  • Director: Radovan Grahovac
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Marko Ruždjak
  • Pantomime: Zlatko Omerbegović
  • Premiere: 9 May 1973

  • Abélard, Pierre: LETTERS TO HÉLOISE (LETTRES Á HÉLOISE)

  • Monologue
  • Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik
  • Dramatization: Tomislav Radić
  • Translation: Vojmir Vinja
  • Director: Tomislav Radić
  • Set design: Zvonimir Šuler
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Performed by: Milka Podrug- Kokotović
  • Premiere: 13 May 1973

  • Krleža, Miroslav: EVERYONE JUST LEAVES. AND THE MAN STANDS ALONE. ALWAYS ALONE. SINGING IN VAIN IN THE AUTUMN FOG (SVI IDU SAMO. I ČOVJEK STOJI SAM. I VJEČNO SAM. ZALUDU PJEVAT SUNCU U MAGLI JESENJOJ)

  • Recital in honor of the 80th birthday of Miroslav Krleža
  • Selection of texts: Miroslav Supanc
  • Director: Miroslav Supanc
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Mladen Häusler
  • Premiere: 26 June1973, Zagreb Summer Nights

  • Zec, Zoran / Hadžić, Fadil: THE STOLEN DEITY (UKRADENO BOŽANSTVO)

  • Comedy
  • Satirical Theatre Kerempuh, Zagreb
  • Director: Vjekoslav Vidošević
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 8 September 1973

  • Delibes, Clément Philibert Léo: COPPÉLIA (COPPÉLIA OU LA FILLE AUX YEUX D’ÉMAIL)

  • Ballet
  • Bayerisches Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, München, Germany
  • Script: Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter and Arthur Saint-Léon
  • Choreography: Ivica Sertić
  • Conductor: Franz Allers
  •  Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 19 December 1973

1974

  • Ghelderode, Michel de: THE SUN SETS (LE SOLEIL IL SE COUCHE)

  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vjenceslav Kapural
  • Director: Dino Radojević
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Bogdan Gagić
  • Premiere: 19 February1974

  • Horvat, Stanko: THE PIT (JAMA)

  • Ballet
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Choreography: Melita Skorupski
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Preview: 6 June 1974, Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb
  • Premiere: 7 June 1974, Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb

  • Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Iljyich: THE NUTCRACKER (NUßKNACKER; ŠČELKUNČIK)

  • Ballet
  • Städtische Bühnen Dortmund Musiktheater, Dortmund, Germany
  • Choreography: Ivica Sertić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 1974

  • BALLET EVENING V (BALLETABEND V)

  • Skrjabin, Aleksandr: Die Wünsche der die Jungfem
  • Antoniou, Theodore: Jeux Berio, Luciano: Visage Milhaud, Darius: Salade
  • Bayerisches Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, München, Germany
  • Choreography: Ivica Sertić
  • Conductor: Theodore Antoniou
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 20 September 1974

1975

  • Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin: DON JUAN OR THE FEAST OF THE STONE (DOM JUAN OU LE FESTIN DE PIERRE)

  • Drama in five acts
  •  &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Radovan Ivšić
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set design: Drago Turina.
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek and Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 27 October 1975

  • Ivanac, Ivica: A BREAK FOR TIRED RIDERS OR DON JUAN’S SMILE (ODMOR ZA UMORNE JAHAČE ILI DON JUANOV OSMIJEH)

  • Saga in five acts and 9 tableaux
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set design: Drago Turina
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek and Zlatko Bourek.
  • Premiere: 28 October 1975
  • Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich: CINDERELLA (ASCHENBRÖDEL; ZOLUŠKA; CENDRILLON)
  • Ballet in three acts
  • Bayerisches Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, München, Germany
  • Script by Nikolaj Dimitrijevič Volkov adapted from Charles Perrault Choreography and staging: Ivan Sertić
  • Conductor: Franz Allers
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek Premiere: 18 November 1975

  • Offenbach, Jacques: HOFFMANN’S TALES (LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN)

  • Fantastical opera in five acts with a prologue and epilogue
  • Written by: Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vladan Švacov
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Conductor: Jovan Šajnović
  • Set design: Zvonimir Lončarić
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Juraj Mofčan
  • Premiere: 27 December 1975
  •  

1975

  • Kušan, Ivan: ČARUGA

  • A sung folk play with shooting and murder
  • An arduous but credible tragedy of Mr. Juraj Ardonjak from Feričani in Slavonia who was killed in unusual circumstances due to his unfaithful and prodigal wife’s love for the surveyor Boris Možbolt, who indirectly hired the scoundrel Jovo Stanisavljević known as Čaruga to remove her husband from the living and which demonstrates the immeasurable wickedness of the said wife as well as the greed, lust and other vices of many others and the shameful end of almost all the villains.
  • Travelling Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Tomislav Radić
  • Set design: Anela Radić
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Ozren Depolo
  • Preview: 10 October 1976, Varaždin

  • Lagerkvist, Pär Fabian: THE DWARF (DVÄRGEN)

  • Monodrama
  • Travelling Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Mihajlo Stojanović
  • Adapted by: Tomislav Radić
  • Director: Tomislav Radić
  •  Set design: Zvonko Šuler
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Performed by: Pero Juričić.
  • Premiere: 7 November 1976, Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb

  • Jonson, Ben: VOLPONE OR THE FOX

  • Comedy in three acts (6 tableaux)
  • Split Summer Festival’s Drama Ensemble
  • Translated and adapted by: Nikica Petrak
  • Translated into the Dubrovnik dialect by: Luko Paljetak
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set design: Drago Turina
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek.
  • Choreography: Mirjana Preiss
  • Music: Igor Kuljerić
  • Premiere: 15 July 1977, Split Summer Festival, Trogir
  • In Split, the play was shown in the Republic Square

  • Boban, Ivica and the collective: THE RETURN OF ARLECCHINO (POVRATAK ARLECCHINA)

  • Based on texts by Carlo Goldoni
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb and Theatre Workshop “Pozdravi”, Zagreb
  • Director: Ivica Boban
  • Set design: Dinka Jeričević
  • Costume design: Božica Vodeničar
  • Mask design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Drago Mlinarec and Neven Frangeš
  • Premiere: 26 July 1977, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Držićeva poljana

1977

  • Isaac, Salih: ORLANDO MALEROSO

  • Inspired by Marin Držić, conceived by Zlatko Bourek
  • Dubrovnik Summer Festival Drama Ensemble
  • Director, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Davor Rocco
  • Premiere: 22 August 1977, Dubrovnik Summer Festival

  • Bjelinski, Bruno: PUSS IN BOOTS (MAČAK U ČIZMAMA)

  • Ballet in two acts (7 tableaux)
  • Grimms’ tales as interpreted by A. Minterhuber
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Adapted for ballet by: Melita Skorupski
  • Director and choreographer: Melita Skorupski
  • Conductor: Zoran Juranić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Preview: 17 December 1977

  • Isaac, Salih: ORLANDO MALEROSO

  • Puppet play
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Davor Rocco
  • Premiere: 26 December 1977

1978

  • Feydeau, Georges: GONE HUNTING (MONSIEUR CHASSE)

  • Comedy in three acts
  •  Travelling Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Adapted by: Božidar Violić
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set design: Anela Radić
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 19 January 1978, Karlovac

  • Puntar, Frane: THE SWING (GUGALNICA)

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Director: Edi Majaron
  • Set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Edi Majaron
  • Premiere: 4 April 1978, LGL — Marionete

  • Škrabe, Nino — Senker, Boris — Mujičić, Tahir: CAFÉ TORSO (KAVANA TORSO)

  • Hallucinatory galgencabaret in one part and several sequences
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Darko Tralić
  • Set and costume design: Dinka Jeričević and Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Arsen Dedić
  • Preview: 4 October 1978

  • Sütö, András: STAR AT THE STAKE (CSILLAG A MÁGLYÁN)

  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Ivan Bauman
  • Director: Miran Hercog
  • Set design: Zvonko Šuler
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Đurđa Otržan
  • Premiere: 22 December 1978

1979

  • Gounod, Charles: FAUST

  • Opera in 7 tableaux
  • Written by: Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Kosta Spaić
  • Director: Vaclav Vežnik
  • Conductor: Miro Belamarić
  • Set design:  Ladislav Vychodil
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj and Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Miljenko Vikić
  • Premiere: 24 March and 2 April 1979

  • Durbešić, Tomislav: TO BE CONTINUED OR THAT’S HOW IT IS, MY DEAR DMITRY… (NASTAVAK ILI TAKO TI JE TO, MOJ DIMITRIJE…)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Damir Munitić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Musical associate: Vesna Šir
  • Pre-premiere: 16 June 1979 / Preview: 3 October 1979, Kazališni klub

1980

  • Delibes, Clément Philibert Léo: COPPÉLIA (COPPÉLIA OU LA FILLE AUX YEUX D’ÉMAIL)

  • Ballet in two acts (3 tableaux)
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Script: Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter and Arthur Saint-Léon Director and choreographer: Ivica Sertić
  • Conductor: Davorin Hauptfeld
  •  Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 18 March 1980

  • Bencsik, Imre: A BORROWED APARTMENT (POSUĐENI STAN)

  • Satirical Theatre Kerempuh, Zagreb
  • Translation: Marta Živković
  • Director: Dunja Tot-Šubajković
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Danica Dedijer
  • Choreography: Ivanka Šerbedžija
  • Music: Zvonko Presečki
  • Preview: 9 April 1980. Premiere: 11 April 1980

  • Bersa, Blagoje: THE SHOEMAKER OF DELFT (DER SCHUSTER VON DELFT)

  • Opera in three acts
  • Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen’s THE GALOSHES OF FORTUNE by Alfred Maria Willner and Julius Wilhelm
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Blagoje Bersa
  • Director: Vladan Švacov
  • Conductor: Karlo Kraus
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Premiere: 3 June 1980

  • Minkus, Ludwig: DON QUIXOTE

  • Ballet
  • Bayerisches Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, München, Germany
  • Director: John Lanchberry
  • Conductor: Alicja Mounk
  • Choreographer: Ivan Sertić
  • Assistant choreographer: Marjan Jagust
  •  Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 21 December 1980

1981

  • Büchner, Georg: LEONCE AND LENA (LEONCE UND LENA)

  • Satirical play
  • Komedija Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Truda Stamać
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Igor Kuljerić
  • Premiere: 24 January 1981

  • Držić, Marin: DUNDO MAROJE

  • Comedy
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Ivica Kunčević
  • Set design: Zvonimir Šuler
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Choreography: Miljenko Vikić
  • Mask design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  • Public general rehearsal: 13 March 1981, premiere: 14 March 1981

  • Takarli, Fu’ad al: THE ROCK (AL-SAKHRA)

  • Comedy in one act
  •  &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Danijel Bućan
  • Director: Petar Šarčević
  • Dramaturgy: Mladen Martić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Premiere: 12 April 1981, &TD

  • Saint Vincent, Millay Edna: ARIA DA CAPO

  • Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb
  • Translation and adaptation: Ivica Krajač
  • Direction and music: Ivica Krajač
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Orchestration: Miljenko Vikić
  • Premiere: 23 June 1981 / 15 October 1981, Student Centre, Zagreb

  • Krleža, Miroslav: THE BANQUET IN BLITVA (BANKET U BLITVI)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Adaptated and directed by: Georgij Paro
  • Set design: Zlatko Kauzlarić Atač
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Preview: 10 & 11 November 1981

1982

  • Shakespeare, William — Stoppard, Tom: A FIFTEEN MINUTE HAMLET

  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation and adaptation: Damir Munitić
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  • Direction, set design, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 9 January 1982

  • Nazor, Vladimir: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (CRVENKAPICA)

  • Trešnja Theatre, Zagreb
  • Adapted by: Drago Britvić and Joško Juvančić
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Set design, costume design and puppet animation: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Silvija Hercigonja
  • Puppets: Jaroslava Hoška
  • Music: Srećko Zubak
  • Preview: 17 April 1982 / Premiere: 24 September 1982

  • Unknown author: THE FARCE OF MASTER PATHELIN (FARCE DE MAÎTRE PIERRE PATHELIN)

  • Farce
  • Croatian National Theatre, Split
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Directors: Georgij Paro and Zlatko Bourek
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Joško Koludrović and Miljenko Prohaska
  • Premiere: 25 July 1982, Carrarina poljana

  • Smetana, Bedřich: THE BARTERED BRIDE (PRODANÁ NEVĚSTA)

  • Comic opera in three acts
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Written by: Karel Sabina
  • Translation: Milutin Cihlar Nehajev
  • Director: Petar Šarčević
  • Conductor: Miro Belamarić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Choreography: Zvonimir Reljić and Melita Skorupski
  • Preview: 22 September 1982 / Premiere (reprise): 26 October 1982

  • Štok, Izidor Vladimirovič: THE DIVINE COMEDY (BOŽESTVENNAJA KOMEDIJA)

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Translation: Milan Jesih
  • Dramatizacija i Dramaturgy: Matjaž Loboda
  • Direction, set design, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Bojan Adamič
  • Premiere: 13 November 1982

1983

  • Gotovac, Jakov: DALMARO

  • Opera in one act
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Adapted from Marin Držić by Vojmil Rabadan
  • Director: Ivica Krajač
  • Conductor: Karlo Kraus
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Sonja Kastl
  • Premiere: 24 January 1983

  • Gotovac, Jakov: STANAC

  • Opera in one act
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Written by: Ruža. L. Petelinova
  • Director: Ivica Krajač
  • Conductor: Karlo Kraus
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Miljenko Vikić
  • Premiere: 24 January 1983

  • Shakespeare, William: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (KROĆENJE GOROPADNOSTI)

  • Comedy in 8 tableaux
  • Croatian National Theatre, Split
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Director: Marin Carić
  • Set design: Mijo Adžić
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Miljenko Štambuk
  • Music selection: Igor Pomykalo
  • Premiere: 5 March 1983

  • Verdi, Giuseppe / Dvořak, Antonin / Webern, Anton / Saint-Saëns, Camille / Bartók, Béla: SPRING, SUMMER, FALL… (FRÜHLING, SOMMER, HERBST…)

  • Ballet
  • Bayerisches Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, München, Germany
  • Choreography: Ivan Sertić
  • Conductor: Klaus E. Schneider
  • Set design: Lorenz Henning.
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 16 July 1983

  • Držić, Marin: THE MISER (SKUP)

  • Comedy
  • Zagrebačko gradsko kazalište Komedija i Festivalski dramski ansambl Dubrovačkih ljetnih
  • igara
  • Adapted from Marin Držić by Zlatko Bourek and Joško Juvančić
  • Directors: Zlatko Bourek and Joško Juvančić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Sculptor-puppet maker: Stjepan Gračan
  • Orchestration: Darko Kolar
  • Music: Jaroslav Kubiček
  • Premiere: 16 & 17 July 1983, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Gundulićeva poljana

  • Ibsen, Henrik: WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN (NÅR VI DØDE VÅNGER)

  • Dramatic epilogue in three acts
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Ivo Slavnić
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Dramaturgy: Zvonimir Mrkonjić
  • Set design: Josip Vaništa and Ante Vulin
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  • Preview: 16 September 1983 / Premiere: 17 September 1983

  • Molière: DON JUAN OR THE FEAST OF THE STONE (DOM JUAN OU LE FESTIN DE PIERRE)

  • Croatian National Theatre, Split.
  • Translation: Radovan Ivšić
  • Adapted by: Marin Carić
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set design: Drago Turina
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music selection: Vesna Šir
  • Premiere: 25 November 1983

  • Grubišić, Kleme: THE MACE (BUZDOVAN)

  • Comedy
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Adapted by: Anton Kolendić
  • Director: Slobodan Praljak
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 19 December 1983, Velika dvorana

  • Nestroy, Johann Nepomuk: FREEDOM IN KRÄHWINKEL (FREIHEIT IN KRÄHWINKEL)

  • Komedija Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Ivica Krajač
  • Music: Alfi Kabiljo
  • Director: Ivica Krajač
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 21 December 1983

1984

  • Rostand, Edmond: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

  • Romantic comedy
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Ivan Kušan and Milan Dimović
  • Director: Ivica Kunčević
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj and Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  • Preview: 14 January 1984 (21) / Premiere: 15 January 1984

  • Ford, John: ‘T IS PITY SHE’S A WHORE

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Branka Kamenski and Zdenko Novački
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Dramaturgy: Sanja Ivić
  • Set design: Jozef Ciller
  • Costume design: Doris Kristić
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  • Puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 29 March 1984

  • Beethoven, Ludwig van: THE CREATURES OF PROMETHEUS (DIE GESCHÖPFE DES PROMETEUS)

  • Ballet
  • Bayerisches Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, München, Germany
  • Choreography and staging: Ivan Sertić
  • Conductor: Reinhard Seifried
  • Set design: Lorenz   Henning
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 12 April 1984

  • Compagnone, Luigi — Dall’Orto, Italo: THE BALLAD OF PULCINELLA, CAPTAIN OF THE PEOPLE (LA BALLATA DI PULCINELLA, CAPITANO DEL POPOLO)

  • Croatian National Theatre, Split and ATER Modena, Italy. Part of the Theatre Europe project.
  • Music: Nicolo Piovani
  • Director: Egisto Marcucci
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Masks: Eva Poglio, Ante Banovac and Andro Kukoč
  • Premiere: 16 July 1984, Split Summer Festival, Croatian National Theatre

  • Arrabal, Fernando: PICNIC ON THE BATTLEFIELD (PIQUENIQUE EN CAMPAGNE)

  • Croatian National Theatre, Split
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Directors: Georgij Paro and Zlatko Bourek
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Joško Koludrović and Miljenko Prohaska
  • Premiere: 25 July 1984, Split Summer Festival, Carrarina poljana

  • Shakespeare, William: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

  • Croatian National Theatre, Split
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Director: Marin Carić
  • Set design: Miodrag Adžić
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Miljenko Štambuk
  • Music: Igor Pomykalo
  • Premiere: 7 August 1984, Split Summer Festival, Carrarina poljana

  • Unknown 15th century French author: THE FARCE OF MASTER PATHELIN (FARCE DE MAÎTRE PIERRE PATHELIN)

  • Croatian National Theatre, Split
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Directors: Georgij Paro and Zlatko Bourek
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Joško Koludrović
  • Premiere: 17 August 1984, Zagreb Summer Festival, the garden of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb

  • Bakmaz, Ivan: KUPIDO

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Ivica Kunčević
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Dramaturgy: Lada Kaštelan
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  • Preview: 15 October 1984, Mala scena

  • Grabowski, Jan: THE WOLF AND THE GOATLINGS (WIŁK I KOŹLĘTA)

  • Trešnja Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Director: Edi Majaron
  • Set design, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Silvija Hercigonja
  • Music: Pero Gotovac
  • Preview: 30 October 1984 / Premiere: 2 November 1984

  • Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Iljyich: THE NUTCRACKER (ORAŠAR; ŠČELKUNČIK)

  • Ballet in two acts (4 tableaux)
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Script: Marius Petipa
  • Adapted by Alexander Dumas from a tale by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
  • With the participation of students of the Secondary Ballet School and the ballet studio of the Croatian National Theatre
  • Director and choreographer: Wacław Orlikowsky
  • Conductor: Aleksandar Kowalsky
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Preview: 4 November 1984 / Premiere: 6 November 1984

  • Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich: CINDERELLA (ASCHENBRÖDEL; ZOLUŠKA; CENDRILLON)

  • Ballet in three acts
  • Written by Nikolaj Dimitrijevič Volkov based on Charles Perrault
  • Bayerisches Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, München, Germany
  • Choreography and staging: Ivan Sertić
  • Conductor: Klaus E. Schneider
  • Set and costume design and animation: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 23 December 1984

1985

  • Süskind, Patrick: THE DOUBLE BASS (DER KONTRABASS)

  • Thetre &TD, Zagreb
  • Translation: Dragutin Horvat
  • Direction, set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music (composer, performer and expert consultant for double bass): Josip Novosel Premiere: 18 April 1985, Velika dvorana

  • Andersen, Hans Christian: THE LITTLE MERMAID

  • Fairy Tale
  • Trešnja Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vlajko Ubavić
  • Language adaptation: Gordana Mrđen
  • Music adaptation: Gojko Bjelac
  • Director: Gojko Bjelac
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj.
  • Choreography: Silvija Hercigonja
  • Music: Vuk Kulenović
  • Preview: 12 June 1985. Premiere: 11 October 1985

  • Držić, Marin: DUNDO MAROJE

  • Comedy in five acts
  • Croatian National Theatre, Split and Theatre Europe — Mediterranean
  • Adapted by: Marin Carić
  • Director: Marin Carić
  • Dramaturgy: Slobodan Prosperov Novak
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj and Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Ennio Stipčević and Joško Koludrović
  • Premiere: 7 August 1985, Split Summer Festival, Preporod Square

  • ECCE HOMO

  • Adapted from texts from older Croatian literature by: Slobodan Prosperov Novak and Nikola Batušić
  • Dubrovnik Summer Festival’s Drama Ensemble
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Dramaturgy: Slobodan Prosperov Novak
  • Linguistic consultant: Josip Vončina
  • Music: Miho Demović
  • Set, costume and mask design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Artistic associate and choreographer: Ivica Boban
  • Premiere: 16 August 1985, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Saint Ivan Fortress

  • Offenbach, Jacques: ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD (ORPHÉE AUX ENFERS)

  • Burlesque operetta in three acts
  • Written by: Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy
  • Komedija Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation and adaptation: Vladan Švacov
  • Director: Vladan Švacov
  • Conductor: Veseljko Barešić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Danica Dedijer
  • Choreography: Zaga Živković
  •  Premiere: 15 September 1985

  • Božić, Mirko: KURLANI

  • Dramatic symphony in four movements
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb (a joint production of the drama, opera and ballet houses)
  • Dramatization of the novel: Mirko Božić and Vladimir Gerić
  • Text adapted by: Mladen Škiljan
  • Director: Mladen Škiljan
  • Dramaturgy: Sanja Ivić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Juraj Mofčan
  • Music: Igor Kuljerić
  • Preview: 4 October 1985 / Preview: 5 October 1985

  • Parač, Frano: CARMINA KRLEŽIANA

  • Ballet in 14 tableaux
  • Texts by Miroslav Krleža
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Recording of the Opera Orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre
  • Director and choreographer: Milko Šparemblek
  • Conductor: Vjekoslav Šutej
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Pre-preview: 4 December 1985 / Preview: 5 December 1985

1986

  • Prica, Čedo: THE RESIGNATION (OSTAVKA)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Dramaturgy: Lada Kaštelan
  • Set design: Zlatko Kauzlarić Atač
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Juraj Mofčan
  • Music: Pero Gotovac
  • Pre-preview: 27 January 1986 / Preview: 29 January 1986

  • Goldoni, Carlo: LOVERS (GLI INNAMORATI)

  • Comedy in three acts
  • Zagreb Youth Theatre
  • Translation: Frano Čale
  • Direction and set design: Damir Munitić
  • Costume design: Doris Kristić
  • Music selection: Neven Frangeš
  • Orchestration: Juraj Mofčan
  • Drawings: Zlatko Bourek
  • Photography: Davor Šiftar
  • Premiere: 7 February 1986, &TD Theatre

  • Mrkšić, Borislav: THE GOLDEN APPLE (OD ZLATA JABUKA)

  • Puppet play in two parts based on motifs from folk tales
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre
  • Dramatization: Borislav Mrkšić
  • Directors: Joško Juvančić and Zlatko Bourek
  • Set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Arsen Dedić
  • Pre-preview: 16 April 1986 / Preview: 17 April 1986

  • Hadžić, Fadil: THE GRAND SPECTACLE (GRAND SPEKTAKL)

  • Satirical Theatre Kerempuh, Zagreb
  • Direction, set design, costume design and puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Puppet animation: Đuro Roić
  •  Music: Zvonko Presečki
  • Preview: 23 January 1987, Noćna scena

1987

  • Šnajder, Slobodan: SILENCES OF A NUN (DUMANSKE TIŠINE)

  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Želimir Mesarić
  • Dramaturgy: Zvonimir Mrkonjić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Miljenko Vikić
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  • Premiere: 24 February 1987

  • Theophrastus: NEWSMONGERING OR THE FAVOURITE JOB IN THE WORLD (OGOVARANJE ILITI NAJDRAŽI POSAO NA SVIJETU)

  • A play in one part
  • Based on Theophrastus’ ON MORAL CHARACTERS (ĒTHIKOI KHARAKTĒRES)
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre
  • Translation: Mario Čečuk
  • Dramatization, direction and music selection: Edi Majaron
  • Performed by: Ivica Barišić
  • Set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 26 February 1987

  • Jonson, Ben: THE ALCHEMIST

  • Croatian National Theatre, Split
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Director: Želimir Mesarić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek and Doris Kristić
  • Choreography: Miljenko Vikić
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  • Premiere: 25 April 1987

  • Nalješković, Nikola: THE FIFTH, SIXTH AND SEVENTH COMEDY (KOMEDIJA PETA, ŠESTA I SEDMA)

  • Farce
  • The lost part of the text filled in by Vladan Švacov
  • Academy Theatre, Zagreb
  • Direction and set design: Maja Freundlich
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Linguistic consultant: Josip Vončina
  • Stage music consultant: Ennio Stipčević
  • Premiere: 7 May 1987, Hvar Theatre Days, Hvar

  • Shakespeare, William: THE TEMPEST

  • Play in five acts
  • Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade
  • Translation: Antun Šoljan
  • Director: Dejan Mijač
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Mladen and Predrag Vranešević
  • Orchestration: Lokica Stefanović-Zekić
  • Premiere: 25 July 1987, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Lokrum

  • Aristophanes: LYSISTRATA

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Translation: Fran Bradač
  • Direction and dramaturgy: Edi Majaron
  • Set and costume design, puppet and light design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreographer: Damir Zlatar Frey
  • Music: Edi Majaron
  • Premiere: 13 December 1987

  • Chekhov, Anton: A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL & ON THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF TOBACCO (PREDLOŽENIE & O VREDE TABAKA)

  • Trešnja Theatre, Zagreb
  • Adapted by: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Arsen Dedić.
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Premiere: 17 December 1987

1988

  • Shakespeare, William: THE TEMPEST

  • Duško Radović Theatre, Belgrade
  • Director: Edi Majaron
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek and Gordana Krebelj
  • Music: Georg Friedrich Händel
  • Premiere: 2 September 1988

  • Crnčević, Brana — Zec, Zoran — Bojičić, Rade — Baljak, Aleksandar — Đorđević, Bora (Čorba) — Torjanac, Dubravko — Kanižaj, Pajo — Mijović Kočan, Stijepo: A WAY OUT (IZLAZ IZ SITUACIJE)

  • Political cabaret
  • Satirical Theatre Kerempuh, Zagreb
  • Director: Ivica Krajač
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Juraj Mofčan
  • Music: Zvonko Presečki
  • Pre-premiere: 15 September 1988, Noćna scena / Premiere: 16 September 1988, Noćna scena

  • Pirandello, Luigi: THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS (I GIGANTI DELLA MONTAGNA)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Nedjeljko Fabrio
  • Director: Ivica Kunčević
  • Dramaturgy: Lada Kaštelan
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  • Orchestration: Miljenko Vikić
  • Pre-premiere: 21 Octobe 1988 / Premiere: 22 October 1988

  • Unknown 13th century French author: MONASTIC PLEASURES (SAMOSTANSKI UŽICI)

  • Romantic comedy
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Ivan Kušan
  • Dramaturgical editing: B. D., A. S., V. Z.
  • Adapted by: Božidar Violić
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Assistant director, set and costume design and puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Igor Savin
  • Premiere: 19 & 20 November 1988, &TD

  • Krilić, Zlatko: LET’S PLAY WITH PUPPETS (ZAIGRAJMO Z LUTKAMI)

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Translation: Nina Skrbinšek
  • Dramaturgy: Milosav Marinović
  • Director: Ljubomir Draškić
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Vojislav Kostić
  • Premiere: 9 December 1988

  • Šotola, Jiří: TODAY, THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME OR CHICKEN ON THE SPIT (DNES POPRVÉ A POUZE JEDENKRÁT ANEB KUŘE NA ROŽNI)

  • Trešnja Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Dagmar Ruljančić
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Dramaturgy: Dagmar Ruljančić
  • Set design: Persida Žutinić
  • Costume design: Ruta Knežević
  • Puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Srđan Sorić
  • Music: Srđan Dedić
  • Premiere: 11 December 1988

1989

  • Shakespeare, William: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

  • Comedy in five acts
  • Croatian National Theatre, Osijek
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Director: Marin Carić
  • Set design: Mijo Adžić
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Miljenko Vikić
  • Music: Igor Pomykalo
  • Premiere: 9 May 1989

  • Königsknecht, Željko: AN APPLAUSE TO THE SAD SWINDLER (APLAUZ ŽALOSNOM VARALICI)

  • Monodrama
  • Satirical Theatre Kerempuh, Zagreb
  • Performed by: Željko Konigsknecht Keno
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Zvonko Presečki
  • Pre-preview: 3 June 1989, Noćna scena

  • Kilian, Barbara: A QUARREL IN THE COURTYARD (STREIT IM HOF)

  • Play in one part
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translated and adapted by: Radovan Milanov
  • Directors: Siegfrid Heinzmann and Zlatko Bourek
  • Set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Dieter Reppenhagen
  • Preview: 18 June 1989 / Premiere: 20 June 1989

  • Aeschylus: ORÉSTEIA

  • Trilogy
  • (I: AGAMEMNON, II: THE LIBATION BEARERS, III: EUMENIDES)
  • Dubrovnik Summer Festival Drama Ensemble
  • Translation: Tomislav Ladan
  • Adapted by: Marin Carić and Hrvoje Ivanković
  • Director: Marin Carić
  • Dramaturgy: Hrvoje Ivanković
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Orchestration: Damir Zlatar Frey
  • Music: Neven Frangeš and folk songs from Hvar
  • Premiere of the trilogy: 17 August 1988, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Kamenolom Dubac, Knežev dvor, Držićeva poljana, Sponza Palace (Orlando)
  • Premiere: 21 & 25 July 1989
  • AGAMEMNON was performed independently

  • Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich: CINDERELLA (ZOLUŠKA; CENDRILLON)

  • Ballet in three acts
  • Written by Nikolaj Dimitrijevič Volkov based on Charles Perrault’s work
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director and choreographer: Ivica Sertić
  • Conductor: Vjekoslav Šutej
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Premiere: 14 October 1989

  • RIGOLETTO

  • Melodrama based on motifs from Victor Hugo and Francesco Maria Piave
  • Hans Wurst Nachfahren, Berlin
  • Director and puppet designer: Zlatko Bourek
  • Dramaturgy: Irena Vrkljan and Benno Meyer-Wehlack
  •  Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Butze Fischer
  • Premiere: 11 November 1989

1990

  • Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich: A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY (MESJAC V DEREVNE)

  • Comedy in five acts
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Dramaturgy; Sanja Ivić
  • Set design: Dinka Jeričević
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Juraj Mofčan
  • Music: Arsen Dedić
  • Premiere: 28 May1990

  • Držić, Marin: DUNDO MAROJE

  • Comedy
  • Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik
  • Adapted by: Dalibor Foretić
  • Epilogue by: Luko Paljetak
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Paola Dražić-Zekić
  • Premiere: 14 July 1990, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Music School park

  • Gundulić, Ivan: OSMAN

  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre, Zagreb
  • Adapted from Gundulić’s eponymous poem by Nikica Kolumbić
  • Adapted for puppet theatre by: Luko Paljetak
  • Dramaturgy: Iva Gruić
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Assistant director and set designer: Zlatko Bourek
  • Puppets: Mila Divljaković-Stefanović
  • Music: Karlo Kraus
  • Premiere: 15 July 1990, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Music School park
  • Puppet Theatre Days
  • Premiere at the Zagreb Puppet Theatre: 4 September 1990, International Puppet Theatre Festival (PIF)

  • Vetranović, Mavro: HOW JOSEPH WAS SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS (KAKO BRATJA PRODAŠE JOZEFA)

  • Comedy
  • Dubrovnik Summer Festival Drama Ensemble
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Dramaturgy: Slobodan Prosperov Novak
  • Assistant director and choreographer: Ivica Boban
  • Set design: Vasko Lipovac
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek and Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Miho Demović
  • Premiere: 11 August 1990, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Music School park

  • Killian, Barbara: A QUARREL IN THE COURTYARD (STREIT IM HOF)

  • Puppet play in one part
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Marija Katičić-Horvat
  • Epilogue by: Luko Paljetak.
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music selection: Mirko Gruber
  • Premiere: 20 November 1990

1991

  • Synge, John Milllington: THE WELL OF THE SAINTS

  • SNG Drama Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Translation: Lado Kralj
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Set design: David N. Flaten
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Davor Rocco
  • Premiere: 8 November 1991

  • Držić, Marin: DUNDO MAROJE

  • Satirical Theatre Kerempuh, Zagreb
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Dramaturgy: Mira Muhoberac
  • Set design: Dinka Jeričević
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Barbara Rocco and Goran Navojec
  • Premiere: 21 November 1992

  • Tucić, Srđan: THE RETURN (POVRATAK)

  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Želimir Mesarić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Jasna Novak
  • Premiere: 22 November 1991

1992

  • Unknown 15th century French author: THE FARCE OF MASTER PATHELIN (FARCE DE MAÎTRE PIERRE PATHELIN)

  • Farce
  • Zagreb Youth Theatre / Zlatko Bourek
  • Translation from Old French to Croatian: Vladimir Gerić
  • Translation from Croatian to German: Zvonimir Krkljuš
  • Adaptation of songs from Croatian to German: Maja Oršić
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Puppet costumes: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Srećko Zubak
  • Premiere: 6 March 1992

  • Schiller, Friedrich: THE ROBBERS (DIE RÄUBER)

  • Celje City Theatre, Slovenia
  • Translation: Borut Tekman
  • Director: Robert Raponja
  • Dramaturgy: Tatjana Šuput
  • Set design: Ivica Plkender
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  •  Choreography: Maja Đurinović Zalar
  • Premiere: 25 September 1992

1993

  • Shakespeare, William: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

  • Hans Wurst Nachfahren, Berlin
  • Translation: Irena Vrkljan and Benno Meyer-Wehlack
  • Directors: Zlatko Bourek and Siegfried Heinzmann
  • Puppet design: Zlatko Bourek.
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Butze Fischer
  • Premiere: 9 October 1993

1994

  • Aralica, Ivan: THE FEAST OF THE GLOW-WORMS (PIR IVANJSKIH KRIJESNICA)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Directed and adapted by: Ozren Prohić
  • Dramaturgy: Lada Kaštelan
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Igor Kuljerić
  • Light design: Vladimir Kazda
  • Preview: 14 January 1994, Home of the Croatian Army “Zvonimir,” Zagreb

  • Shakespeare, William: MACBETH

  • Production: Alpe Adria Puppet Festival in collaboration with Teatro Stabile del FVG
  • Adaptation, direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Performed by: Massimo Somaglino, Luisa Vermiglio, Luisa De Santi, Fernanda Hrelia
  • Chitarra and Giulio Chiandetti
  • Premiere: 20 July 1994, Gorizia, Castello di Gorizia

  • Shakespeare, William: HAMLET

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Dramaturgy: Lada Kaštelan
  • Set design: Jozef Ciller
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Stanko Juzbašić
  • Costume design: Mare Sesardić
  • Premiere: 22 July 1994, Dubrovnik Summer Festival

  • Bourek, Zlatko: SAINT GEORGE (SVETI JURAJ)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Synopsis, direction, masks and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Dramaturgy: Sanja Ivić
  • Set design: Dinka Jeričević
  • Music: Arsen Dedić
  • Orchestration: Sonja Kastl
  • Preview: 29 July 1994, Split Summer Festival

  • Chekhov, Anton: GROTESQUE ONE-ACT PLAYS: THE BEAR, ON THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF TOBACCO, THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (GROTESKE EINAKTER: DER BÄR, ÜBER DIE SCHÄDLICHKEIT DES TABAKS, DER HEIRATSANTRAG)

  • Hans Wurst Nachfahren, Berlin
  • Translation: Elena Gram
  • Direction and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Siegfried Heinzmann.
  • Dramaturgy: Irena Vrkljan and Benno Meyer-Wehlack
  • Music: Rainer Rubbert
  • Premiere: 30 September 1994

  • Delibes, Clément Philibert Léo: COPPÉLIA
    (COPPÉLIA OU LA FILLE AUX YEUX D’ÉMAIL)

  • Ballet
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Script: Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter and Arthur Saint-Léon
  • Director and choreographer: Ivica Sertić
  • Conductors: Miroslav Salopek and Yossi Gutman
  •  Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Light design: Vladimir Kazda Premiere: 3 December 1994

1995

  • Calvino, Italo: THE BARON IN THE TREES (BARONE RAMPANTE)
  • Production: Teatro Stabile del FVG in collaboration with Associazione per la Prosa di Pordenone and ERT Ente Regionale Teatrale del FVG
  • Dramaturgy: Antonella Caruzzi
  • Director: Roberto Piaggio
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlako Bourek
  • Performed by: Massimo Somaglino, Luisa Vermiglio, Luisa De Santi, Cristina Nadrah
  • Premiere: 3 April 1995, Pordenone, Rosmini Elementary School
  • Shakespeare, William – Kljakovič, Vanča: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
  • Puppet Theatre Split
  • Direction, costume, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Assistant director and choreographer: Olga Glavina
  • Composer: Bojan Beladović
  • Speech pedagogue: Neva Bulić
  • Preview: 6 October 1995
  •  
  • Vujec, Grga (Dragutin Domjanić) / Hitrec, Hrvoje: PETRICA KEREMPUH AND THE SMART ASS (PETRICA KEREMPUH I SPAMETNI OSEL)
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Tomica Simović
  • Premiere: 17 June 1995
  • Šenoa, August: THE CURSE (KLETVA)
  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director and dramatization associate: Želimir Mesarić
  • Dramaturgy: Lada Kaštelan
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec—Bourek.
  • Music: Arsen Dedić
  • Orchestration: Miljenko Vikić.
  • Light design: Aleksandar Mondecar
  • Assistant director: Sanja Ivić
  • Preview: 18 November 1995

1996

  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: THE MAGIC FLUTE (DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE)

  • Opera
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Conductor: Vladimir Kranjčević
  • Dramaturgy: Nenad Turkalj
  • Set and light design: Dinka Jeričević
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreographer and assistant director: Miljenko Vikić
  • Premiere: 23 March 1996

  • Matišić, Mate: THE ANGELS OF BABLYON (ANĐELI BABILONA)

  • Rustic travesty
  •  Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek i Božidar Violić
  • Costume design: Mirjana Zagorec
  • Choreography: Zaga Živković
  • Music: Davor Rocco
  • Premiere: 18 December 1996

  • Bourek, Zlatko / Paljetak, Luko: THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER (POVRATAK VOJAKA)

  • Zagreb Youth Theatre / Theatre troupe “David”
  • Director and puppet designer: Zlatko Bourek
  • Light design: Saša Fistrić
  • Preview: 20 December 1996

Somaglino, Massimo and Gabrielli, Renato: ZITTO MENOCCHIO

  • Director: Renato Gabrielli
  • Set design: Gigi Mattiazzi
  • Puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Play: Massimo Somaglino
  • Premiere: Cividale del Friuli, Duomo Courtyard, 1996

1997

  • Jonson, Ben: VOLPONE OR THE FOX

  • Comedy in three acts (6 tableaux)
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Nikica Petrak
  • Director: Nina Kleflin
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Assistant costume designers: Danica Dedijer and Katarina Radošević
  • Music: Matej Meštrović
  • Choreography: Mirjana Ilić-Smolić
  • Light design: Olivije Marečić
  • Tricks: Luka Vidović
  • Premiere: 18 April 1997

  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO (DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL / IL SERAGLIO)

  • Opera
  • Libretto: Christoph Friedrich Bretzner and Gottlieb Stephanie
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Conductor: Vladimir Kranjčević
  • Set and light design: Dinka Jeričević
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreographer and assistant director: Miljenko Vikić
  • Premiere: 14 October 1997

  • Britten, Benjamin: THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA

  • Opera
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Dunja Robić
  • Director: Zlatica Bašić-Stepan
  • Conductor: Mladen Bašić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Premiere: 24 November 1997

  • Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Iljyich: THE NUTCRACKER (ORAŠAR; ŠČELKUNČIK)

  • Ballet in two acts (4 tableaux)
  • Script: Marius Petipa
  • Adapted by Alexander Dumas from a tale by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
  • Croatian National Theatre Zagreb
  • Directors and choreographers: Frane Jelinčić and Dagmar Kessler-Jelinčić
  • Conductors: Miroslav Salopek and Igor Kuljerić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Ika Škomrlj
  • Premiere: 19 December 1997

1998

  • Bourek, Zlatko / Ivić, Sanja: BEĆARAC (THE DANCING SONGS) Croatian National Theatre, Osijek

  • Direction, set, costume and light design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Dramaturgy: Sanja Ivić
  • Music: Igor Valeri
  • Choreography: Zorislav Štark
  • Preview: 6 March 1998

  • Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin: THE HYPOHONDRIAC (LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE)

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Translation: Janko Moder
  • Prologue, interplay and epilogue: Boris A. Novak
  • Direction, dramaturgy, set design, costume design and puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Gregor Strniša
  • Light design: Zlatko Bourek and Miran Udovič
  • Premiere: 22 April 1998

  • Senečić, Geno: AN UNUSUAL MAN (NEOBIČAN ČOVJEK)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Petar Šarčević
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Antun Petrušić
  • Light design: Vladimir Kazda
  • Dramaturgy:  Sanja Ivić
  • Premiere: 15 September 1998

1999

  • Kelemen, Milko: THE HOME OF BERNARDA ALBA (DOM BERNARDE ALBE)

  • Dance drama in one act, inspired by the eponymous work by Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Music: Milko Kelemen
  • Dramatization and choreography: Ivica Sertić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Light design: Zoran Mihanović
  • Preview: 16 April 1999

  • Ivić, Sanja: PREŠEREN IN HELL (PREŠEREN V PEKLU)

  • Dialogue between the poet and the students based on Prešeren’s poetry
  • Prešeren Theatre Kranj, Slovenia
  • Translation: Arko
  • Direction, set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Borut Kržišnik
  • Premiere: 11 November 1999

  • Dekleva, Milan / Bourek, Zlatko: FROM ONE TO ZERO (OD ENA DO NIČ)

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Director and puppet designer: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Noni de Gleria
  • Premiere: 6 December 1999

2000

  • Nezāmī di Ganjè: THE SEVEN PRICNESSES (LE SETTE PRINCIPESSE)

  • Production: Festival Marionette e Burattini nelle Valli del Natisone” / Mittelfest
  • Mittelfest – Cividale del Friuli 2000
  • Director: Roberto Piaggio
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlako Bourek
  • Premiere: 2000, Cividale del Friuli, Chiesa di S. Maria in Corte. Seven stories (one each night 24 – 30 July 2000)

  • Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin: THE HYPOHONDRIAC (LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE)

  •  Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Mladen Škiljan
  • Direction, set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Matija Dedić
  • Premiere: 29 September 2000

2001

  • Unknown 14th century author: FLORIO AND BIANCOFIORE (FLORIO E BIANCIFIORE)

  • Production: Festival Marionette e Burattini nelle Valli del Natisone” / Mittelfest
  • Cividale del Friuli
  • Dramaturgy: Antonella Caruzzi
  • Director: Roberto Piaggio
  • Performed by: Serena Di Blasio, Anna Di Lena, Laura Pigozzo, Marcela Serli, Maja Štromar
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  •   Premiere: Cividale del Friuli, Arco Medioevale, 26 July 2001

  • Rozman, Andrej: JOAN OF THE JAMA CASTLE (JAMSKA IVANKA)

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Director: Matjaž Loboda
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Vitja Avsec
  • Premiere 31 March 2001

  • An-Ski, S. A. / Rappaport, Salomon: DIBUK

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Dragutin Horvat
  • Direction and set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec—Bourek
  • Music: Alan Bjelinski
  • Orchestration: Blaženka Kovač.
  • Light design: Miljenko Bengez
  • Premiere: 17 November 2001

2002

  • Feydeau, Georges: BARILLON’S WEDDING (LE MARIAGE DE BARILLON)

  • Vaudeville in three acts
  • Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Aleksandar Reiching
  • Dramatization and direction: Božidar Violić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Orchestration: Zaga Živković
  • Music selection: Branko Bulić
  • Light design: Olivije Marečić
  • Assistant set designer: Đorđe Jandrić
  • Assistant costume designer: Barbara Bourek
  • Premiere: 4 March 2002

  • Mishima, Yukio: THE LADY AOI (AOI NO UE)

  • Independent art group “Barutana,” Osijek
  • Translator and director: Sanja Ivić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Barbara Bourek and Saša Došen
  • Music: Hrvoje Barišić
  •  Premiere: 29 March 2002

2003

  • Aymé, Marcel / Ivić, Sanja: THE TALES OF THE PERCHED CAT (LES CONTES DU CHAT PERCHÉ)

  • Zagreb Youth Theater
  • Translation: Vladan Desnica
  • Direction, set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Dramaturgy: Sanja Ivić
  • Premiere: 20 September 2003

2004

  • Ionesco, Eugène: EXIT THE KING (LE ROI SE MEURT)

  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb, Habunek Stage
  • Translation: Vlado Habunek
  • Adapted by: Marijana Nola and Lawrence Kiiru
  • Director: Lawrence Kiiru
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Snježana Vego
  • Choreography: Blaženka  Kovač-Carić
  • Music: Igor Savin
  • Premiere: 29 April 2004

  • Euripides: HERACLES — ALCESTIS (HĒRAKLĒS MAINOMENOS — ALKĒSTIS)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Neven Jovanović
  • Director: Ozren Prohić
  • Dramaturgy: Sanja Ivić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Irena Sušac
  • Music: Davor Bobić
  • Light design: Deni Šesnić
  • Video projections: Ivan Faktor
  • Premiere: 15 October 2004 (the first performance of Heracles in Croatia)

2005

  • Jarry, Alfred: UBU ROI

  • Croatian National Theatre Split
  • Translation and dramatization: Vladimir Gerić
  • Direction, set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Orchestration: Olga Glavina
  • Light design: Miroslav Mamić
  • Sound design: Tomislav Marković
  • Premiere: 25 July 2005, Split Summer Festival, Carska poljana

  • Chekhov, Anton / Bourek, Zlatko: THE PROPOSAL (PROSIDBA ILI NE ZOV’ VRAGA)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Author and director: Zlatko Bourek
  • Adapted to the Šokac dialect by Dušan Gojić based on Božidar Škritek’s translation
  • Premiere: 20 April 2005

  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: THE MAGIC FLUTE (DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE)

  • Opera
  • Libretto: Emanuel Schikaneder
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Conductors: Michael Helmrath and Wolfgang Scheidt
  • Set design: Dinka   Jeričević
  • Costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Light design: Vladimir Kazda
  • Projection design: David N. Flaten
  • Choreographer and assistant director: Miljenko Vikić
  • Premiere: 22 December 2005

2006

  • Domjanić, Dragutin / Hitrec, Hrvoje: PETRICA KEREMPUH AND THE SMART ASS (PETRICA KEREMPUH I SPAMETNI OSEL)

  • Children’s and puppet stage of the Croatian National Theatre, Varaždin
  • Direction, set and pupet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Adapted by: Vesna Kosec-Torjanac
  • Premiere: 3 September 2006

  • Paljetak, Luko / Bourek, Zlatko: SAINT BLAISE (SVETI VLAHO, BLASIUS, BLAŽ)

  • Comedy / folk theatre
  • Dubrovnik Summer Festival Drama Ensemble / Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik / Matica hrvatska, Mostar
  • Direction, set and figure design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Verses: Luko Paljetak
  • Music: Paola Dražić Zekić
  • Preview: 15 July 2006, Dani Matice hrvatske, Mostar, BiH
  • Premiere: 24 June 2006, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Sponza Palace

2007

  • Stahuljak, Višnja: RED UMBRELLAS (CRVENI KIŠOBRANI)

  • Žar ptica City Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director: Želimir Mesarić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Svetlana Lukić
  • Music: Arsen Dedić
  • Dramaturgy: Marijana Nola
  • Premiere: 5 March 2007

  • Kosec-Torjanac, Vesna: SAINT NICHOLAS (SVETI MIKULA)

  • Children’s and puppet stage of the Croatian National Theatre, Varaždin
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Dragutin Novaković Šarli
  • Premiere: 1 December 2007

  • Matz, Rudolf: A CHRISTMAS TALE (BOŽIĆNA PRIČA)

  • Musical play
  •  Croatian National Theatre, Varaždin
  • Performed by: Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, Mixed Choir of the Croatian National Theatre in Varaždin, children’s choir Štigleci, and students of the Vindija school of classical ballet
  • Director: Dunja Tot Šubajković
  • Conductor: Anđelko Igrec
  • Set design: Aleksandar Augustinčić and Željko Prstec
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Sonja Kastl
  • Light design: Aleksandar Augustinčić and Slaven Edvin Bot
  • Premiere: 15 December 2007

2008

  • Držić, Marin: THE MISER (SKUP)

  • Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik
  • Direction, set and mask design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Prologue and epilogue by: Luko Paljetak
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Paola Dražić-Zekić
  • Premiere: 26 January 2008

  • Vicić, Natalija: REJOICE! (RADUJTE SE)

  • “Licem u lice” Theatre, Split
  • Director: Ratko Glavina
  • Puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 24 November 2008

2009

  • Based on motifs from Grimm‘s fairy tales: TELL A TALE (PRIČAM TI PRIČU )

  • Children’s Theatre Smješko, Zagreb
  • Director: Swy Skup
  • Dramaturgy: Sanja Ivić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Mario Mirković
  • Premiere: 20 March 2009

  • Matošić, Vedran: TOMA NIGER ON MARUL (TOMA NIGER O MARULU)

  • “Licem u lice” Theatre, Split / Scena 55 HNK, Split
  • Direction, set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Dramaturgy: Jasen Boko
  • Premiere: 23 April 2009

  • Bourek, Zlatko / Tonković Dolenčić, Ana: BALTHAZAR AND KOKO THE TENOR (BALTAZAR I TENOR KOKO)

  • Branko Mihaljević Children’s Theatre in Osijek
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 10 July 2009, Osijek Summer of Culture

2010

  • Tabori, George: THE SOLE FAILURE OF ADOLF H. (JEDINI NEUSPJEH ADOLFA H.)

  • Based on motifs from George Taborio’s MEIN KAMPF
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre
  • Translation: Nikica Petrak
  • Adapted for the theatre of freaks by: Zlatko Bourek
  • Direction, figure and head design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Set design: Miljenko Sekulić
  • Figures made by: Gordana Krebelj
  • Music: Davor Rocco
  • Premiere: 6 May 2010

2015

  • Bourek, Zlatko: KEREMPUH AND DEATH (KEREMPUH I SMRT)

  • A play based on Miroslav Krleža’s THE BALLAD OF PETRICA KEREMPUH performed by Bourek’s theatre of figures/theatre of freaks
  • Adapted for the theatre of freaks by: Zlatko Bourek
  • Direction, figure and set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Preview: 6 July 2015