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 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?
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 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.
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 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.
This year’s Kosovo Theatre Showcase took place over an intense five day period between 2nd-7th November 2021.
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.
Milo Rau artistic director of NT Gent, Julia Wissert, artistic director of Theater Dortmund, and theatre critic Simon Strauss discuss questions of representation.
How the government of Albania, under the Socialist Party’s rule, demolished the building of the National Theatre in the middle of the pandemic and a national lockdown.