Unmapping Theater: German theater and its attitude towards the ‘East’
Edona Kryeziu looks at two recent festivals – Radar Ost and Post-West – and what they reveal about German theatre’s relationship with the ‘east’
The Ghosts on Your Shoulder: Igor Memic and Miran Hadžić in conversation
British Bosnian playwrights Igor Memic and Miran Hadžić discuss Memic’s play Old Bridge, writing, identity, telling Bosnian stories in the UK and artistic responsibility.
A Light in the Dark: Remembering Igor Vuk Torbica
As theatres in Serbia stage a tribute to Igor Vuk Torbica, Andrej Čanji looks back at the life, work and art of the talented young director
The Novak Djoković saga and Serbian cultural representation
The ongoing saga surrounding Novak Djoković’s attempts to enter Australia has dominated headlines across the world. Duška Radosavljević Krojer explores the way the Serbian tennis star – and Serbian stories more generally – are represented in the media
Joakim Vujić’s Negri: how a forgotten Serbian classic was given new life
In 2018, Andjelka Nikolić directed the premiere of Negri by Joakim Vujić. Duška Radosavljević Krojer explores why it took so long to bring the play to the stage and the challenges of staging a play about race in a modern Balkan context.
The Never-Ending Story: On The Matrix: Resurrections, time and memory
The Matrix: Resurrections revisits the saga 18 years on. Natasha Tripney attempts to unpick the film’s metatextual layers, its new resonance as a love story and asks whether it can be considered a post-Yugoslav movie?
No Longer Silent: How a Bosnian theatre festival became a focal point for the MeToo movement
A look at how a Bosnian theatre festival in Brčko became the focal point for women’s resistance and solidarity, and galvanised the MeToo movement in the Balkans.
The Return of The Prefect – reviving the past
The National Theatre of Albania’s decision to present an ‘artistic reading’ of Besim Levonja’s communist-era comedy Prefekti (The Prefect) sparked controversy. Flamur Dardeshi explores the reasons why.
Theatre is a memory machine – mapping history from below
On the marginalisation of Roma people on stage and in the wider world, and the role theatre can play in addressing genocide and as an archive of social memory.
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.