The Game
Powerful documentary theatre, directed by Žiga Divjak for Mladinsko theatre, about the pushback faced by migrants in the Balkans.
Pas’humbja
A moving play by Florent Mehmeti about learning to deal with grief and continue living after loss at Teari Oda.
Shakespeare in Love
Luka Grbić gives a brilliant comic performance in a playful and dynamic stage production of the romantic comedy at Belgrade Drama Theatre
King Lori – Instagration
Jeton Neziraj’s layered new play about integration, ‘instagration’, the rapper Loredana Zefi and the politician Ylfete Fanaj.
The Brothers Karamazov
Oliver Frljić to the Croatian theater scene with a mature, complex and atmospheric take on Dostoevsky’s novel at Zagreb Youth Theatre
Three Winters
Well-performed and visually pleasing production of Tena Štivičić’s play about four generations of a Croatian family.
Everything OK
Simona Hamer’s witty new play about a group of people in a corporate team-building exercise, at SNG Drama Ljubljana
Amsterdam
An assured and relevant production of Maya Arad Yasur’s play Amsterdam at Atelje 212, exploring how people live with their history.
Children of A Clockwork Orange
Kokan Mladenović directs an update of Anthony Burgess’ cult novel A Clockwork Orange with a cast of young actors in Novi Sad
Alice in Fearland
Milena Radulovic stars in an incoherent update of Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic at Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade