The Father
Erson Zymberi directs Florian Zeller’s moving play about a man losing his memory and sense of self to dementia.
Sarajevo, My Dear
Director Dino Mustafić helms the first original Bosnian-Herzegovinian musical at the National Theatre of Sarajevo.
Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept
Jeton Neziraj’s new play, a coproduction between Qendra Multimedia and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, explores reconciliation and forgiveness in Kosovo and South Africa.
Always Be Like a Dragon
Olja Lozica’s inventive and well-performed staging of Espi Tomičić’s play about war, past trauma and poverty at HNK Zagreb.
Three Sisters
Director Botond Nagy’s playful, disorientating and deconstructed take on Chekhov’s Three Sisters at Novi Sad Theatre.
Blank
Kokan Mladenović’s fragmentary and opaque adaptation of Bosnian actor Feđa Štukan’s bestselling memoir.
The Art of Living: The Act of Killing
Barbara Kukovec, Katarina Stegnar and Urška Brodar’s exploration of femicide and feminism in Slovenia, part of the City of Women festival.
The World And All That It Holds
Selma Spahić’s triumphant distillation of the vast emotional and historical landscape of Aleksandar Hemon’s award-winning novel.
Mothers
Layered new show by Kolektiv Igralke and director Rajna Racz exploring different societal and personal attitudes to pregnancy and motherhood.
The Flowers of Srebrenica
Legal Aliens Theatre mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica with a performance based on the novel by Aidan Hehir.