How a Tree Fell
Captivatingly written and performed exploration of communities and crisis, written by Katarina Morano and directed by Źiga Divjak for SNG Drama Ljubljana.
The Shadow Garden: Exploring trauma and war on stage
In 1999, 15 members of the Bogujevci family were massacred in their garden in Kosovo. Nick Awde discusses artistic responsibility and bearing witness with the creative team behind a new cross-cultural production exploring their story.
Pains of Youth
Jovana Tomić directs a bittersweet, at times provocative reworking of Ferdinand Bruckner’s play about a group of disaffected, sexually entangled young people at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre.
Selma Spahić: “Resistance in the arts is a necessity”
Director Selma Spahić talks to Darija Davidović about the legacy of the wars of the 1990s, post-Yugoslav artistic collaboration, the role documentary theatre has played in her work and the importance of communities.
Frank V
Miloš Lolić’s strangely captivating production of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s musical-tragicomic satire for SNG Maribor.
Programme announced for 63rd edition of MESS
The 63rd International Theater Festival MESS in Sarajevo will be held this year from 30th September to 8th October and will feature work by Maladype Theatre and Boris Liješević.
Zoran Rakočević: “Theatre is there to act against censorship”
Director Zoran Rakočević on the work of his company Korifej, putting on a theatre festival in a small Montenegrin mountain town and helping to bring Zlatko Paković’s banned play to the stage.
Sober
Zhaneta Xhemajli dazzles as an addict trying to heal herself in an intimate staging of Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places & Things.
Kabare Jugoslvenske
An alternative, feminist, matriarchal history of Yugoslavia presented in cabaret format by writer and director Ivan Leo Lemo at the National Theatre of Subotica.
Slovenia’s Mladinsko Theatre announces 2023/24 season
The 2023/24 season at Slovenia’s Mladinsko Theatre will explore love and its complicated relationship with power, and feature work by Nina Rajić Kranjac and Sebastian Nübling.