Espi Tomičić: “It’s no longer shameful to talk about your background if you have grown up poor”
Croatian playwright Espi Tomičić talks about gender and dramaturgy, the performance of masculinity and combining art with activism.
Belgrade theatres face wave of Covid cancellations
Theatres in Belgrade face a wave of cancellations and postponements as Covid-19 cases continue to climb.
The Novak Djoković saga and Serbian cultural representation
The ongoing saga surrounding Novak Djoković’s attempts to enter Australia has dominated headlines across the world. Duška Radosavljević Krojer explores the way the Serbian tennis star – and Serbian stories more generally – are represented in the media
Trimalchio’s Dinner
Bojana Lazić directs an entertainingly meta-theatrical staging based on Petronius’s Satyricon for Slovensko mladinsko gledališče
Blerta Neziraj: “As a female theatre director in Kosovo, you have to fight constantly.”
Blerta Neziraj, one of Kosovo’s leading theatre directors, talks about international collaboration and the challenges of working as a female theatre director in the country.
Coriolanus
Altin Basha’s staging of Shakespeare’s play for the National Theatre of Albania favours spectacle and sword-play over subtlety.
Serbian theatres to celebrate Igor Vuk Torbica
The Serbian National Theater in Novi Sad and the National Theatre in Belgrade have announced a programme to honour the memory of director Igor Vuk Torbica
Joakim Vujić’s Negri: how a forgotten Serbian classic was given new life
In 2018, Andjelka Nikolić directed the premiere of Negri by Joakim Vujić. Duška Radosavljević Krojer explores why it took so long to bring the play to the stage and the challenges of staging a play about race in a modern Balkan context.
Nicoleta Esinencu: On making enemies and creating communities
Moldovan playwright and director Nicoleta Esinencu talks about Symphony of Progress, her new production for Berlin’s HAU and Teatru-Spalatorie, her independent theatre in Chisinau.
The Never-Ending Story: On The Matrix: Resurrections, time and memory
The Matrix: Resurrections revisits the saga 18 years on. Natasha Tripney attempts to unpick the film’s metatextual layers, its new resonance as a love story and asks whether it can be considered a post-Yugoslav movie?