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Selma Spahić: “Resistance in the arts is a necessity”

InterviewBy Darija DavidovicSeptember 19, 2023

Director Selma Spahić talks to Darija Davidović about the legacy of the wars of the 1990s, post-Yugoslav artistic collaboration, the role documentary theatre has played in her work and the importance of communities.

Zoran Rakočević: “Theatre is there to act against censorship”

InterviewBy Nick AwdeSeptember 15, 2023

Director Zoran Rakočević on the work of his company Korifej, putting on a theatre festival in a small Montenegrin mountain town and helping to bring Zlatko Paković’s banned play to the stage.

Robert Lenard: “Our theatre should be an intercultural environment”

InterviewBy Borisav MaticSeptember 7, 2023

Robert Lenard, artistic director of Novi Sad Theatre, talks to Borisav Matić about the importance of interculturality, the current state of the independent scene in Hungary and his cabaret based on Foucault. 

Nihad Kreševljaković: “Artists have to respond to the world they see”

InterviewBy Nick AwdeJune 12, 2023

Nihad Kreševljaković, artistic director of Mess Festival, discusses the Sarajevo War Theatre, the power of memory, and the role of the artist in times of conflict.

Kushtrim Koliqi: “We have a clear role to play when dealing with the past”

InterviewBy Nick AwdeJune 1, 2023

Director and producer Kushtrim Koliqi talks to Nick Awde about fusing culture and activism via his work with Integra and the role theatre can play addressing social issues in the region.

Andrej Nosov: “Theatre fits this political space very well”

InterviewBy Nick AwdeMay 9, 2023

Theatre director and activist Andrej Nosov is the co-founder of cultural organisation Heartefact Fund. He talks to Nick Awde about cultural co-operation, political loneliness and the continuity of memory.

POLIS Teatro Festival: “We have an attraction to the theatre of South East Europe”

InterviewBy Natasha TripneyMay 5, 2023

This year’s POLIS Teatro Festival, which takes place annually in Ravenna, has a Balkan focus. Cofounders Agata Tomšič and Davide Sacco, of ErosAntEros, explain why they want to bring work from the region to Italian audiences.

Vito Weis: “You have to be relentless towards yourself and the material”

InterviewBy Natasha TripneyMay 2, 2023

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. 

Nina Rajić Kranjac: “Questions of identity fascinate me”

InterviewBy Igor BurićApril 27, 2023

Nina Rajić Kranjac discusses her acclaimed show Solo, her creative process, the forgotten Slovenian playwright Ivan Mrak and why she’d like to make show about love.

Irena Popović Dragović: “Our society cherishes the cult of patriarchy”

InterviewBy Igor BurićMarch 26, 2023

Composer Irena Popović Dragović on her new opera Children, based on the novel by Milena Marković and making her debut as a director.

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