Tjaša Črnigoj: “Women’s sexual pleasure is still taboo in our society”
Director Tjaša Črnigoj on Sex Education II, her lecture performance about women’s sexual pleasure, and how psychotherapy informs her work.
Rozi Kostani: “It’s three times more difficult for female artists”
Actor, director and professor at the Faculty of Performing Arts, Rozi Kostani has had a rich and varied career on both stage and screen in Albania and the wider region. She talks to Belkisa Zhelegu about her creative ambitions and the professional and personal challenges she’s faced in her life as an artist.
ErosAntEros: Bringing Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards to the stage
Italian theatre makers ErosAntEros on their ambitious staging of Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards featuring live music by Laibach and the challenges of international co-productions.
Igor Koruga: “Emancipation of queer culture is not just a Western creation”
Choreographer Igor Koruga talks to Borisav Matić about his new dance piece Unstable Comrades, his research in the history of queer culture in socialist countries and the West, and performing queerness through dance.
Haris Pašović: “Anyone who is excluded must be included”
Haris Pašović’s new show World of Possibilities depicts the everyday lives of disabled people, their families and carers. The director talks to Nick Awde about his methodology and wider questions of inclusion, representation and artistic responsibility.
Katarina Morano: “I deal with fear a lot in my work”
Writer Katarina Morano talks to Živa Kadunc about her collaborative partnership with Žiga Divjak, motherhood, and how her work addresses our fears for the future.
Blerta Neziraj: “People never seem to learn from their tragedies”
Kosovan director Blerta Neziraj talks to Duška Radosavljević about revisiting her production of Balkan Bordello in Sweden with a Swedish cast, on different approaches to theatre and the value of international collaboration.
Slovenia Counts: Sebastian Nübling and Jackie Poloni
Director Sebastian Nübling and musician Jackie Poloni talk to Nick Awde about collaboration and their new show exploring what it means to be Slovenian today.
Kokan Mladenović: “We have to reinvent the theatre of our times”
Prolific director Kokan Mladenović talks to Nick Awde about his recent work, the ensemble system, his thoughts on audiences and the need to resist artistic compromise.
Hana Rastoder: “I want to make revolutions in theatre”
Theatre maker Hana Rastoder talks to Nick Awde about 671-LOV, her play about aftermath of the Štrpci massacre and the need for Montenegrin writers to confront the trauma of war.