Oliver Frljiæ is a writer and theatre director who lives and works in Zagreb. He has directed plays in collaboration with both major theatre houses and non-institutional initiatives in Croatia and abroad, and his productions include plays ranging from adaptations of classical drama such as Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes or Euripides' Bacchae, to contemporary plays such as Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love, and plays for children such as Erich Kästner's Twins and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. His work is characterised by a conceptual approach that tests the preconceived notions of acting, directing, and staging the play in general – his production of Georg Büchner's Danton's Death was played in French, despite the fact that none of the performers knew the language, and one of his most recent productions was the simultaneous staging of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the same performers on two different stages.