A.Y.L.A.N
Director Blerta Neziraj turns the theatre into the sea in a potent production of Jeton Neziraj’s play for Gjilan City Theater
Miss Julie
Haris Pašović directs Strindberg’s play at Madlenianum Theatre in Belgrade setting it in contemporary Slovenia.
Mateja Koležnik: “Art is a tool to open people’s minds”
Mateja Koležnik’s production of The Crucible (Hexenjagd) is currently being presented by the Berliner Ensemble. Tom Mustroph talks to the director about the political climate in Slovenia and why we now live in the digital Middle Ages.
U raljama života
The Belgrade Drama Theater ensemble enlivens Biljana Srbljanović’s adaptation of the popular novel by Dubravka Ugrešić, Štefica Cvek in the Jaws of Life.
Haris Pašović: “Europe today is a Europe of inequality”
It has been 30 years since renowned director Haris Pašović last worked in Belgrade. Borisav Matić speaks to him about his long and eventful career.
Sofia
BITEF dance company and German choreographer Felix Landerer present a strikingly sterile work about systems, hierarchies and power.
Radar Ost: Venturing beyond frontiers
Running from 7th-10th October, the fourth edition of Deutsches Theater’s Radar Ost festival featured work from Belarus, Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Edona Kryeziu reports on this year’s programme.
The Double Life
A multi-lingual production in German, Serbian, Hungarian, Albanian and English, presented by Schlachthaus Theater Bern, as part of the Kosovo Theatre Showcase
FemArt: The feminist festival tackling sexism in Kosovo
The FemArt festival has been showcasing feminist performance and art in Kosovo for nine years. Fatlinda Daku talked to its founder and participants about why the festival was created and why it still matters.
SEEstage.org is a new platform for theater criticism in South East Europe
Launching on 4th November, the site will feature reviews, analysis, interviews, and discussion of the key issues featuring theater artists in the region. It in intended as a place for cross-cultural exchange and discovery and a space to foster critical discourse in the region. The work produced in Zagreb, Prishtina, Belgrade or Sarajevo is characterized…