Burrnesha
Jeton Neziraj’s play exploring clashing cultures, patriarchy and the west’s fascination with the phenomenon of the Sworn Virgin
Bombardment
Review of Dino Pešut’s Bombardment (Granatiranje), a metatheatrical gay love story set against the backdrop of the Yugoslav wars, at KunstTeatar, Zagreb
The Iranian Conference
Ivana Vujić directs a frustratingly static staging of Ivan Vyrypaev’s play, at the National Theatre Belgrade
Solo
Nina Rajić Kranjac’s exhilarating semi-improvised four-hour performance, part of the Mladinsko Theatre showcase.
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.