After six editions in Prishtina, the annual Kosovo Theatre Showcase relocated to Tirana this year. Borisav Matić reports on the first ever Kosovo/Albania Theatre Showcase and a programme of work that illuminated both the past and the present.
Veljko Mićunović’s strikingly staged but irresponsibly revisionist production based on the novel by Branimir Šćepanović at the Serbian National Theatre.
Participatory installation performance by Irena Ristić and Đorđe Živadinović Grgur asking questions about the US whistleblower, information and identity.
Hypnotic dance piece choreographed by Christos Papadopoulos for Berlin’s Dance On Ensemble and featuring performers over the age of 40.
Choreographer Igor Koruga talks to Borisav Matić about his new dance piece Unstable Comrades, his research in the history of queer culture in socialist countries and the West, and performing queerness through dance.
The programme for the 69th Sterijino pozorje, the theatre festival of Serbian national drama, will include work by Ivica Buljan and Selma Spahić.
Director Philip Parr talks about his recent production of Pericles for the Hungarian State Theatre “Csiky Gergely” in Timisoara, his international career and the difference between UK and continental approaches to Shakespeare.
Philip Parr’s engaging production for the Hungarian State Theatre “Csiky Gergely” links Shakespeare’s play to the modern-day migrant crisis.
Theatre maker Lea Kukovičič talks to Borisav Matić about why she staged a symposium on the oppression of men by the patriarchy and why we should stop performing Hamlet
Borisav Matić: reviews two recent revivals of Branislav Nušić’s classic comedy and an early play by Aleksandar Popović, one more successful than the other.