Since November last year, students have been protesting across Serbia, with support for them growing. Duška Radosavljević explores the reasons behind this current wave of student protests in Serbia and how they differ from past protest movements in the country. For the last three months Serbia has been a stage for an extraordinary political performance.…
US playwright Steven Leigh Morris’ White People is a play about American racial politics that has been reframed for a Balkan audience. Verity Healy explores the issues raised by the play around race and gender and looks at how you adapt a text for a different cultural context.
As the year draws to a close, SEEstage’s writers across the region discuss the shows that made a lasting impression on them in 2024.
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.
A look back at the 64th MESS festival, which included work from Palestine and a stage adaptation of Lana Bastašić’s novel Catch the Rabbit.
Theatremakers Ula Talija Pollak and Bor Ravbar on their new show Living Conditions, an exploration of the social impact of Slovenia’s housing crisis.
BITEF artistic director Nikita Milivojević and festival co-curators Ksenija Đurović and Tijana Grumić on the festival’s curatorial model and the themes and trends in this year’s programme.
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Nick Awde talks to playwright Jeton Neziraj and director Blerta Neziraj about Six Against Turkey, their darkly comic new play about the fallout from the 2016 coup in Turkey and the long reach of oppressive regimes.
Karolina Bugajak on the 27th edition of the Mladi Levi Festival, which took place this August in Ljubljana, its innovative international programme and the festival as a political space
The Mirëdita, Dobar Dan festival was supposed to take place at the end of June this year, only to be cancelled at the last minute by the Serbian authorities. Why was it shut down and what does this mean for the future of the festival?