BESTheatre is Slovenia's only independent, professional English-speaking theatre company.

Our policy is to help foster cultural interaction between Britain and our EU partner, Slovenia - two countries with a great theatrical heritage.

PRODUCTION SCHEDULE AND PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME

RUN FOR YOUR WIFE

Scheduled for 2010: Run for your Wife, an hysterically funny farce by the master of the genre, Ray Cooney.

EDUCATIONAL DRAMA FOR STUDENTS

We are highly motivated in the use of drama to support the learning of English as a foreign language and we operate an active Theatre in Education (TIE) programme. To assist students in their Matura study in 2009, 2008 and 2007 we staged three highly successful tours of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Our Spring 2010 educational production is currently under development.

A STATE OF AFFAIRS

In July 2009 we revived our acclaimed production of Graham Swannell's funny and incisive commentary on human relationships A State of Affairs at the OSO Arts Centre in Barnes, London. The play was directed by Kenn Michaels and the cast included Timothy Bentinck (David Archer in BBC's The Archers.)

Please click here for further details, including photographs and reviews of our previous London production of A State of Affairs.

MURDER MYSTERIES

BEST also offer traditional English Murder Mystery events (performed in Slovene or English) for both the private and corporate markets. In September 2005, in co-operation with G & P Hoteli Bled, we produced Slovenia's first professional Murder Mystery at the Grand Hotel Toplice, Bled. Since then our corporate clients have included Nokia, Novo Nordisk, Peugeot, Sanolabor, IATEFL, Unicredit Bank, Sava Group, Raiffeisen Bank and Ericsson.

Click here for further details on our Murder Mysteries_page.

Click here for Slovenian press articles including Nedelo and Slovenia Times.

BBC BIG BAND CONCERTS

As one of our UK/Slovene initiatives BEST are negotiating to bring one of the UK's most prestigious orchestra's, the BBC BIG BAND (plus guest vocalists) to perform for the first time in Slovenia.

Famous musical names the BBC BIG BAND has played with includes Ray Charles, Mel Torme, George Benson, Tony Bennett, George Shearing, Michel Legrand, John Dankworth, and Van Morrison.

''By far the best band to come out of England.'' - George Shearing.

''For me, this is the band.'' - Mel Torme'.

SONGS FROM THE WEST END SHOWS

BEST offer an exciting cabaret production, Songs from the West End Shows, featuring solos and duets from famous West End musicals.

Ideal as a corporate or private after-dinner entertainment, Songs from the West End Shows features a company of singers headed by one of England's leading musical theatre artistes, Graham Bickley, performing songs from West End productions he has appeared in including Les Miserables, Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard. Graham is joined by the Slovene actress/singer Manca Izmajlova.

Please visit our profiles page for further information about Graham Bickley and Manca Izmajlova.

Please note: our performance programme is very flexible and can be tailored to specific requirements. As part of our Theatre in Education policy we run inter-active drama workshops and improvisation classes.