Ibi the Great
Andraš Urban blend meta-theatricality with the grotesque in an energetic update of Alfred Jarry’s aggressively absurdist play at the Sombor National Theatre.
Hello, I am Mephisto
Dino Mustafic explodes Goethe’s Faust in a vibrant, penetrating and highly physical production at Tirana’s National Experimental Theater
Trimalchio’s Dinner
Bojana Lazić directs an entertainingly meta-theatrical staging based on Petronius’s Satyricon for Slovensko mladinsko gledališče
Coriolanus
Altin Basha’s staging of Shakespeare’s play for the National Theatre of Albania favours spectacle and sword-play over subtlety.
Fever
Žiga Divjak’s new work for Slovensko mladinsko gledališče finds an intriguing form for exploring the complex and emotive subject matter of environmental crisis.
Stiffler
Doruntina Basha’s absurdist new play about the way patriarchal society and institutions subject women to judgement and abuse.
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Tena Štivičić’s new play about a couple’s struggles to conceive a child via the IVF process at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.
Wolves and Sheep
Egon Savin directs Ostrovsky’s play about predatory and exploitative human behaviour at Serbia’s National Theatre.
Middlesex
Adaptation of Middlesex, the Pulitzer-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, that marks a step forward in intersex representation on the Serbian stage.
Zagreb–Belgrade via Sarajevo
Review of Jelica Zupanc’s play about a journey taken by Miloš Crnjanski and Ivo Andrić, two of the most famous Yugoslav writers of the 20th century.