Programme of 58th BITEF announced
The programme for this year’s Belgrade International Theatre Festival (BITEF) will include work by Milo Rau, Tiago Rodrigues and Tjaša Črnigoj.
Natasha Tripney is a writer, editor and critic based in London and Belgrade. She is the international editor for The Stage, the newspaper of the UK theatre industry. In 2011, she co-founded Exeunt, an online theatre magazine, which she edited until 2016. She is a contributor to the Guardian, Evening Standard, the BBC, Tortoise and Kosovo 2.0
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