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.
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, 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, artistic director of Mess Festival, discusses the Sarajevo War Theatre, the power of memory, and the role of the artist in times of conflict.
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.
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.
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.
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 discusses her acclaimed show Solo, her creative process, the forgotten Slovenian playwright Ivan Mrak and why she’d like to make show about love.
Composer Irena Popović Dragović on her new opera Children, based on the novel by Milena Marković and making her debut as a director.