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
Before joining the Mladinsko ensemble in 2019, Vito Weis spent many years working across drama, dance, and physical theatre. He spoke to Natasha Tripney about performing naked on stage, his collaborations with Žiga Divjak and his role in Duncan Macmillan’s People Places and Things.
Bulgarian company Zong Theatre present an aesthetically striking production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s allegorical drama
Theater Oberhausen’s New Stages South East Festival will present the work of young theatre artists from the region.
Nina Rajić Kranjac’s anarchic collective explosion of the role of the director returns to Mladinsko Theatre.
Tomi Janežič’s 10-hour meditation on the myth of Don Juan at Mladinsko Theatre is a seductive shared experience.
The selection for the 68th Sterijino pozorje, the festival of Serbian drama, will feature Irena Popović Dragović’s opera Children.
This year’s Radar Ost, Deutsches Theater Berlin’s festival of Eastern European theatre, will focus on Ukraine and also include work from Belarus, Georgia and Slovenia.
Ivan Medenica has announced his departure as artistic director of BITEF and cites an “irresponsible” approach towards the festival.
Jovana Tomić on directing Alice Birch’s Revolt for Atelje 212, how she views the role of the director and why she prefers adapting novels for the stage
The competition programme for the 58th Maribor Theatre Festival will include work by Nina Rajić Kranjac and Jernej Lorenci