Goodbye, Lindita
Mario Banushi’s impressionistic, wordless performance about mourning rituals and the grieving process shows great promise.
Andrej Čanji is a theatre critic and theatrologist based in Belgrade.
Belgrade Pride Theatre Festival: Queering the Serbian stage
The Belgrade Pride Theatre Festival takes place every year during Pride Week. Andrej Čanji reports on this year’s programme and two very different explorations of queer lives in the region.
Croatian Theatre Showcase 2023: making hidden things visible
This year’s Croatian Theatre Showcase took place between 18th-21st May. Andrej Čanji reports on a diverse and varied programme that explored and exposed the hidden, the invisible and the absent.
Telling trans stories on the Serbian stage
Two recent shows on the Serbian independent scene have explored trans issues in strikingly different ways. Andrej Čanji discusses Before We Begin and Major and Helena.
68th Sterijino pozorje: A critical dialogue
The 68th Sterijino Pozorje took place earlier this summer in Novi Sad. Critics Borisav Matić and Andrej Čanji discuss this year’s selection.
Jackpot
Ivor Martinić’s smart, funny and well-performed play about the impact money can have on people, at Zagreb’s Kunst Teatar.
Yankee Rose
Miloš Lolić directs a seductive production of Slobodan Obradović’s comedy inspired by the life of Anna Nicole Smith.
Children
Irena Popović composes and directs a moving operatic version of Milena Marković’s verse novel Children at National Theatre, Belgrade
The Idiot
A talented young ensemble elevate Ivica Buljan’s production of Vladimir Tabašević’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s classic novel at Belgrade Drama Theatre
Kinga Mezei: “It is difficult to be an independent artist in Serbia”
Actress and director Kinga Mezei on the influence of poetry and visual art in her work and the challenges of being an independent artist.