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Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept: The search for reconciliation

October 16, 2025 
							

Andrej Čanji 
							

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Staging The Flowers of Srebrenica: "An enormous responsibility"

September 24, 2025 
							

Natasha Tripney 
							

Dimitrije Tucović Addressing The Serbian Youth

70th Sterijino pozorje: a critical dialogue

June 23, 2025 
							

Borisav Matic 
							

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Georgia protests: Theatre is the last stage standing for the voice of freedom

May 23, 2025 
							

Nick Awde 
							

Mario Banousi©Andreas Simopoulos for Onassis Stegi

Mario Banushi: "The Balkans aren’t just one thing; they’re many things."

April 14, 2025 
							

Nick Verginis 
							

News

Programme Announced for the 17th Desire Central Station Festival
October 24, 2025

Temporary Closure of the National Theatre in Belgrade
October 12, 2025

Programme announced for 65th edition of MESS festival
September 22, 2025

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Sarajevo, My Dear

Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept

Always Be Like a Dragon

Programme Announced for the 17th Desire Central Station Festival

Three Sisters

Bosnia and HerzegovinaReviews

Blank

SloveniaReviews

The Art of Living: The Act of Killing

Bosnia and HerzegovinaReviews

The World And All That It Holds

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In Tirana, Erson Zymberi directs The Father, Flori

In Tirana, Erson Zymberi directs The Father, Florian Zeller's moving play about a man losing his memory and sense of self to dementia.

Read the full review via the link in our bio.

#teatri #tirana #theatrereview #florianzeller

"The musical palette of the production demonstrate

"The musical palette of the production demonstrates remarkable stylistic breadth."

Review of Sarajevo, My Dear, the first original Bosnian-Herzegovinian musical, which opened recently at the National Theatre of Sarajevo.

To read the full review, follow the link in our bio.

#theatre #musicaltheatre #sarajevo

Review of Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept

Review of Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept

Jeton Neziraj's new play explores reconciliation processes and public forgiveness in Kosovo and South Africa.

To read the full review follow the link in our bio.

Review of Always Be Like a Dragon, Olja Lozica's i

Review of Always Be Like a Dragon, Olja Lozica's inventive and well-performed staging of Espi Tomičić's play about war, past trauma and poverty at HNK Zagreb.

For the full review follow the link in our bio.

#zagreb #kazaliste

Director Botond Nagy's playful, disorientating and

Director Botond Nagy's playful, disorientating and deconstructed take on Chekhov's Three Sisters at Novi Sad Theatre.

To read the full review follow the link in our bio.

#theatre #pozoriste #threesisters #novisad

Review of Blank, Kokan Mladenović's fragmentary a

Review of Blank, Kokan Mladenović's fragmentary and opaque adaptation of Bosnian actor Feđa Štukan’s bestselling memoir at Sarajevo's Chamber 55.

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#feđaštukan #theatre #pozoriste #sarajevo

The Art of Living: the Act of Killing - Barbara Ku

The Art of Living: the Act of Killing - Barbara Kukovec, Katarina Stegnar and Urška Brodar's exploration of femicide and feminism in Slovenia, part of the City of Women festival.

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#theatre #gledališče

"What art can do is open emotional and imaginative

"What art can do is open emotional and imaginative space where empathy becomes possible."

Jeton Neziraj's new play, Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept, explores reconciliation and forgiveness processes in Kosovo and South Africa.

Read more via the link in our bio.

#jetonneziraj #teatri #premiere #kosove

The new Under 600 Showcase, which took place in Sk

The new Under 600 Showcase, which took place in Skopje in September, gathered together independent artists from across the region.

Ana Ogrizović reports on some of the themes and highlights.

To read more follow the link in our bio. #theatre #skopje

Lara Parmiani, of migrant-led theatre company Lega

Lara Parmiani, of migrant-led theatre company LegalAliens, on The Flowers of Srebrenica, an international co-production based on the illustrated novel by Aidan Hehir, and questions of artistic responsibility when telling stories that are not your own.

Read the full text via the link in our bio.

#sarajevo #théâtre

Review of Mothers, a layered new show by Kolektiv

Review of Mothers, a layered new show by Kolektiv Igralke and director Rajna Racz exploring different societal and personal attitudes to pregnancy and motherhood.

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Legal Aliens Theatre mark the 30th anniversary of

Legal Aliens Theatre mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica with a performance based on the illustrated novel by Aidan Hehir, The Flowers of Srebrenica.

To read the full review follow the link in our bio

In the days following the protest in Serbia on 28t

In the days following the protest in Serbia on 28th June, numerous people have been arrested, including students from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.

Now students and citizens are finding new ways of resisting, on the streets and on stage.

Read more via the link in our bio

#serbia #pumpaj

This year's Sterijino pozorje served as a platform

This year's Sterijino pozorje served as a platform for different aesthetic and political voices, and as such, a platform for dialogue about the future of our theater and our society. Shame on all levels of the government that we now have to fight for such a basic thing."

Following news of the decision not to allocate any funding to Sterijino pozorje, Serbia's most prominent national theatre festival, critics Borisav Matić and Andrej Čanji reflect on this year's edition and what this decision means for the future of the festival.

Photo: Belgrade Trio

Read via the link in our bio #sterijinopozorie #pozoriste #novisad #theatrefestival

This year's Sterijino pozorje served as a platform

This year's Sterijino pozorje served as a platform for different aesthetic and political voices, and as such, a platform for dialogue about the future of our theater and our society. Shame on all levels of the government that we now have to fight for such a basic thing."

Following news of the decision not to allocate any funding to Sterijino pozorje, Serbia's most prominent national theatre festival, critics Borisav Matić and Andrej Čanji reflect on this year's edition and what this decision means for the future of the festival.

Read via the link in our bio #sterijinopozorie #pozoriste #novisad #theatrefestival

"Neziraj’s updated play is at once an outlet for

"Neziraj’s updated play is at once an outlet for grief and a rallying cry."

Review of Prishtina: The Premeditated Killing of a Dream, Jeton Neziraj's potent reworking of a play inspired by the life and legacy of murdered architect Rexhep Luci

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#prishtina #kosova #teatri

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