Belgrade Drama Theatre announces new 2022 season
New work by Frank Castorf, Boris Liješević and Haris Pašović will feature in the 2022 season at Belgrade Drama Theatre
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
Alone: Belarus Free Theatre and the Ukrainian rock star activist
Alone is a new documentary film by Belarus Free Theatre about Ukrainian rock star Andriy Khlyvnyuk’s campaign to raise awareness about the plight of political prisoners.
Balkan Bordello: On the road with the Great Jones Repertory Company
A group of Kosovar, Serbian and American actors set out on a tour of the Balkans with a vibrant modern reworking of a Greek tragedy. Natasha Tripney joined them on the road.
Video: How to Play – Representation and Body Politics on Stage
Milo Rau artistic director of NT Gent, Julia Wissert, artistic director of Theater Dortmund, and theatre critic Simon Strauss discuss questions of representation.
The Double Life
A multi-lingual production in German, Serbian, Hungarian, Albanian and English, presented by Schlachthaus Theater Bern, as part of the Kosovo Theatre Showcase
SEEstage.org is a new platform for theater criticism in South East Europe
Launching on 4th November, the site will feature reviews, analysis, interviews, and discussion of the key issues featuring theater artists in the region. It in intended as a place for cross-cultural exchange and discovery and a space to foster critical discourse in the region. The work produced in Zagreb, Prishtina, Belgrade or Sarajevo is characterized…
New Kosovo Theater Showcase announced
The 4th edition of Kosovo Theatre Showcase will run from 2nd to 7th November in Prishtina, Ferizaj and Gjilan. Across a period of five days, this years’ Showcase will see around 50 regional and international festival directors, critics, journalists and other theatre professionals gather in Kosovo to experience the newest Kosovo theatre productions, to present…
Living Room
Ersan Mondtag’s new piece, presented as part of the BITEF festival, is a strikingly designed meditation on time and memory.