Dajana Josipović: “The time of the starving artist is over”
Theatre director Dajana Josipović talks to Mina Milošević about her recent production of Dennis Kelly’s Orphans, ways of engaging with audiences and Otherness in Balkan theatre.
Mina Milošević is a playwright, dramaturg, screenwriter, and theoretician based in Belgrade. She holds a BA in Dramaturgy and an MA in Theory of Drama Arts at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She worked as a dramaturg on plays in Atelje 212, Belgrade Drama Theatre, Yugoslav Drama Theatre, National Theatre in Belgrade, and Oda Theatre in Prishtina. Her play "Dr Ausländer (Made for Germany)" was presented at BITEF festival 2022. Her master's thesis on female friendship in Serbian contemporary theatre won the "Professor Boško Milin" Award.
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People Without Graves
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Mum
Nebojša Bradić directs Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s emotive play about post-natal depression and new motherhood.
Prima Facie
Maša Dakić gives a phenomenal performance in a powerful one-woman play about rape and the failings of the legal system, directed by Anja Suša.