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Yearly Archives: 2021

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No Longer Silent: How a Bosnian theatre festival became a focal point for the MeToo movement

FeaturesBy Natasha TripneyDecember 30, 2021

A look at how a Bosnian theatre festival in Brčko became the focal point for women’s resistance and solidarity, and galvanised the MeToo movement in the Balkans.

Fever

ReviewsBy Evelin BizjakDecember 29, 2021

Žiga Divjak’s new work for Slovensko mladinsko gledališče finds an intriguing form for exploring the complex and emotive subject matter of environmental crisis.

Stiffler at Teatri Oda, Prishtina. Photo: Sovereign Nrecaj

Stiffler

ReviewsBy Florida KastratiDecember 22, 2021

Doruntina Basha’s absurdist new play about the way patriarchal society and institutions subject women to judgement and abuse.

Interior of Belgrade Drama Theatre

Belgrade Drama Theatre announces new 2022 season

NewsBy Natasha TripneyDecember 21, 2021

New work by Frank Castorf, Boris Liješević and Haris Pašović will feature in the 2022 season at Belgrade Drama Theatre

Andras Dömötör: “We have to steal back our nationality”

InterviewBy Tom MustrophDecember 20, 2021

Andras Dömötör talks about his new production of Karpatenflecken, for Deutsches Theater, the need to reclaim the idea of nationality from the nationalists and whether it is possible to have true freedom of artistic expression in Orban’s Hungary

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ReviewsBy Ana FazekašDecember 17, 2021

Tena Štivičić’s new play about a couple’s struggles to conceive a child via the IVF process at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.

Belarus Free Theatre: “We are stronger than a dictatorship”

InterviewBy Tom MustrophDecember 16, 2021

After almost 17 years of making work underground, Belarus Free Theatre has been forced to leave their home country because it was no longer safe. Tom Mustroph spoke to co-director Natalia Kaliada and company manager Svetlana Sugako about the reasons they felt it necessary to escape – and their future plans.

The Return of The Prefect – reviving the past

FeaturesBy Flamur DardeshiDecember 15, 2021

The National Theatre of Albania’s decision to present an ‘artistic reading’ of Besim Levonja’s communist-era comedy Prefekti (The Prefect) sparked controversy. Flamur Dardeshi explores the reasons why.

Theatre is a memory machine – mapping history from below

FeaturesBy Darija DavidovicDecember 15, 2021

On the marginalisation of Roma people on stage and in the wider world, and the role theatre can play in addressing genocide and as an archive of social memory.

Boombox frontman Andrei Khluvniuk in Alone. Photo by Justin Sutcliffe

Alone: Belarus Free Theatre and the Ukrainian rock star activist

FeaturesBy Natasha TripneyDecember 13, 2021

Alone is a new documentary film by Belarus Free Theatre about Ukrainian rock star Andriy Khlyvnyuk’s campaign to raise awareness about the plight of political prisoners.

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