Hakan Savas Mican: “For a long time migrants were marginalized in theatre”
Writer, director and filmmaker Hakan Savas Mican on making work about the migrant experience and why it’s important to talk about questions of class.
Ivana Vuković: “I write about the things to which I don’t have the answers”
Ivana Vuković, the playwright, screenwriter and dramaturg from Split, discusses Croatia’s housing crisis and the need for artistic solidarity.
The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: keeping tradition alive
The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, which mixes folk traditions with modern dance, is bringing a new show to London inspired by the life of Franz Liszt.
Doruntina Basha: “There is a knife in each of our backs”
Playwright Doruntina Basha on her new play Stiffler, the prevalence of femicide in the Balkans and wider society, and the role that art can play in the feminist cause.
Finding Their Voice: making feminist theatre in Albania
Director Klaudia Piroli and performers Vlera Pylla and Enisa Hysa discuss their new show Pa Ze, feminism and what it is to be voiceless.
Uroš Fürst: “Being an actor can be gladiator-like”
Slovenian actor Uroš Fürst on performing Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing, audience interaction and changing attitudes to mental health.
Sasho Blazeski: “The worst thing an artist can do is be a member of a political party”
Macedonian poet and playwright Sasho Blazeski talks to Ivanka Apostolova Baskar about his play Rockers and how a way of life can be an act of rebellion
Pavlica Bajsić Brazzoduro: “Audio creates a whole new dimension”
Croatian theatremaker Pavlica Bajsić Brazzoduro on the development of her particular model of radiophonic theatre and the power of sound
Žiga Divjak: “We have to completely change our value system”
Žiga Divjak, one of Slovenia’s most in-demand young directors, on why we need to change our thinking about climate change.
Laibach: “We don’t belong to one state only – we belong to all of them”
Laibach on their show Wir sind das Volk, based on the work of Heiner Müller, the relationship between the military, music and theatre, and the art of provocation