The Divine Comedy
Review of Frank Castorf’s carnivalesque, extravagant six-hour production of The Divine Comedy, at Belgrade Drama Theatre.
Love’s End
Eric Vigner directs a jarringly classical staging of Pascal Rambert’s play about the break-up of a relationship
Club Albania
Fatos Berisha directs a witty and brilliantly metatheatrical new play based on Çajupi’s After Death, at the National Theatre of Kosovo’s new temporary stage.
Macbeth
Nebojša Dugalić and Nataša Ninković star in Jagoš Marković’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy at the National Theatre Belgrade
Father and Father
Intimate production of Jeton Neziraj’s play about loss and the families of the missing, presented as part of the Kosovo Theatre Showcase
Sloboština Barbie
Lively, music-infused concert-staging of Maše Kolanović’s popular novel Sloboština Barbie about growing up in Croatia at Zagreb’s KunstTeatar
Our Son
Patrik Lazić’s nuanced and moving autobiographical play about a young gay man seeking his parents’ acceptance
Ivanov
Hervin Çuli’s underpowered and underwhelming production of Chekhov’s masterpiece at the National Theater of Albania.
All Adventurous Women Do
Selma Spahić directs Tanja Šljivar’s complex play about teenage sexuality inspired by real-life events
World Without Women
Olga Dimitrijević and Maja Pelević’s witty and insightful show diagnoses inequalities and a culture of self-exploitation in the Serbian theatre scene