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Patrik Lazić: "Making theatre today is one big balancing act"

December 5, 2022

Borisav Matic

Memorija svijeta je puna2

Zagreb's Kunst Teatar: "We want to attract new audiences to the theater"

November 23, 2022

Lucija Klarik

Sebastijan

Sebastijan Horvat: "All the former Yugoslav countries have a kind of dementia"

November 22, 2022

Natasha Tripney

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Sasha Milavic Davies: "The audience were on the verge of rioting"

November 13, 2022

Natasha Tripney

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Zlatko Paković, Pasolini and the Performance They Tried to Ban

November 2, 2022

Maja Mrđenović

News

Inaugural “Moisiu” National Theater Festival takes place in Skopje
December 1, 2022

Programme announced for 2022 Desire Central Station Festival
November 5, 2022

Programme announced for 2022 Kosovo Theatre Showcase
October 17, 2022

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"Vito Weis' intimate and resonant solo show Bad Co

"Vito Weis' intimate and resonant solo show Bad Company captures something of that weird limbo experienced by so many in the performing arts when deprived of an audience with no real sense of when that audience would return."

For this and more coverage from this year's @desirefestival visit SEEstage.org

#subotica #desirecentralstation #pozoriste #theatre

"Mate Hegymegi’s Nero captivates for its entire

"Mate Hegymegi’s Nero captivates for its entire three-hour running time, flitting between scenes of hedonism – Nero gobbling chunks of pineapple from the blade of a saw – and more contemplative, low-key moments."

Natasha Tripney on this year's DESIRÉ Central Station in Subotica which featured a vibrant programme including work by Andras Urban, Vito Weis and Máté Hegymegi

For this and more festival coverage, visit SEEstage.org #theatre #subotica #serbia #andrasurban #pozoriste #színház

"Emotion is unpopular in contemporary theatre [whe

"Emotion is unpopular in contemporary theatre [where there is a] dominance of concepts and self-indulgent directorial theatre, but this too will pass. Only dedicated actors, unpretentious writers and unobtrusive directors will save theatre from ruin."

Patrik Lazić talks to Borisav Matić about Our Son, his poignant exploration of LGBTQ issues.

For this and other interviews, visit SEEstage.org #theatre #heartefact #belgrade

"Director Fatos Berisha allows the stellar cast to

"Director Fatos Berisha allows the stellar cast to thrive in this complex performance which ingeniously uses a play-within-a-play to address the current state of things."

Review of Club Albania at National Theatre Kosovo

For this and more reviews, visit SEEstage.org #theatre #prishtina #kosovo

"The performance from the National Theater Užice

"The performance from the National Theater Užice bolsters my thesis that the best theatre in Serbia comes from outside Belgrade."

Andrej Canji reports on the 27th Yugoslav Theater Festival which this year included work based on Tolstoy and Turgenev, and a powerful piece from Jernej Lorenci.

For this and more festival coverage, visit SEEstage.org #uzice #theatre #serbia

"The staging seems to be setting us up for a more

"The staging seems to be setting us up for a more intimate experience than it ultimately provides. It is full of the kind of mannered Shakespearean acting that works far better for the upper balconies than the people sitting a metre or so away."

Review of Jagoš Marković's Macbeth at National Theatre Belgrade

For this and more theatre reviews from the region, visit SEEstage.org

#narodnipozoriste #natasaninkovic #nebojsadugalicb

"Going to see Oliver Frljić’s Scandinavian dire

"Going to see Oliver Frljić’s Scandinavian directorial debut, I am on a kind of homecoming"

In the latest instalment of' Duška Radosavljević Krojer's series about relocating to Sweden, she reflects on Swedish theatre and Frljić’s Crime and Punishment

Image: Brott och straff at Drameten, Stockholm

To read the whole series visit SEEstage.org
#theatre #stockholm #oliverfrljic #sweden #dramaten

"The Kosovo Theatre Showcase has created a new dyn

"The Kosovo Theatre Showcase has created a new dynamic in the Kosovo theatre scene."

Berat Bajrami reflects on the fifth edition of the Kosovo Theatre Showcase as a space for social critique and international collaboration

Link in our bio. #kosovo #prishtina #theatre

"We work with those who are still finding their ar

"We work with those who are still finding their artistic signature to those who are still willing to experiment with it. We are not interested in working with authors who have already infiltrated the theater system."

Lucija Klarik speaks to the co-founders of Zagreb's KunstTeatar about the challenges and rewards of running their own space.

For this and other articles about theatre in South East Europe, visit SEEstage.org #theatre #zagreb #kunstteatar #kazaliste

"All the nations in the former Yugoslavia have thi

"All the nations in the former Yugoslavia have this kind of dementia. We are constantly forgetting stuff."

Director Sebastijan Horvat talks to Natasha Tripney about his ambitious staging of Heiner Muller's Cement across three countries, three theatres with three different ensembles.

For this and other interviews, visit SEEstage.org #theatre #zement #yugoslavia #heinermuller #slovenia #gledališče

"It brings the audience closer to the pain." Rev

"It brings the audience closer to the pain."

Review of Father and Father, Jeton Neziraj's intimate play about loss, at Prishtina's Ethnographic Museum.

For this and more reviews from the region, visit SEEstage.org #theatre #prishtina #kosovo #integra

"The audience was on the verge of rioting." Nata

"The audience was on the verge of rioting."

Natasha Tripney speaks to director, dramaturg and choreographer Sasha Milavic Davies about her experiences making work in Serbia and theUK, her production Moja Ti, which is returning this week to Belgrade's Atelje 212, and the show's wild opening night.

Link in bio. #atelje212 #pozoriste #theatre #belgrade #beograd

"I feel terrible for young actors who toil for mea

"I feel terrible for young actors who toil for meager wages and barely scrape by."

Actor Lulzim Zeqja talks to Flamur Dardeshi about his stage and screen work and the economic challenges that face actors in Albania.

For more interviews like this visit SEEstage.org #albania #acting #theatre #performance

"One of the best shows of the season in Zagreb."

"One of the best shows of the season in Zagreb."

Review of Sloboština Barbie, a lively, gig theatre-staging of the popular novel, at Zagreb's KunstTeatar.

For this and other theatrereviews, visit SEEstage.org

#kunstteatar #kunst #zagreb #theatre #barbie #kazaliste

"This powerful, adventurous and youthful productio

"This powerful, adventurous and youthful production of Woyzeck was one of the most successful plays at this year’s festival."

Highlights from the 62nd International Theater Festival MESS in Sarajevo include Oliver Frljić's The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina with electric guitars and a vibrant Woyzeck.

For this and more coverage of festivals in South East Europe, visit SEEstage.org #festivalmess #sarajevo #oliverfrljic #theatre #pozoriste

"Paradoxically, the attempts at censorship ended u

"Paradoxically, the attempts at censorship ended up generating sensational media marketing and significant attention, which it would not have received without this attempt to censor it."

Maja Mrđenović examines the context and the consequences of the attempts to censor Zlatko Paković's new performance in Montenegro.

For this and other discussion of theatre in South East Europe, visit SEEstage.org #theatre #zlatkopakovic #montenegro

"Tension hangs in the air like cigarette smoke in

"Tension hangs in the air like cigarette smoke in a kafana. Because once their son comes back, they will be forced to confront the truth of who he is; that he is gay, something which they cannot bring themselves to accept."

Review of Patrik Lazić’s nuanced and moving autobiographical play Our Son, produced by @heartefact_ and presented as part of the Kosovo Theatre Showcase

For this and more reviews from the region, visit SEEstage.org #theatre #kosovo #serbia

"With as compelling a narrative as Chekhov's Ivano

"With as compelling a narrative as Chekhov's Ivanov, the director Hervin Culi could have done so much more, but it doesn’t seem that this was ever his goal."

Review of an unadventurous Ivanov at the National Theater of Albania

For more reviews of theatre in South East Europe, visit SEEstage.org #albania #theatre #chekhov

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