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May42025
serbiaInterview

Dajana Josipović: “The time of the starving artist is over”

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Apr142025
GreeceInterview

Mario Banushi: “The Balkans aren’t just one thing; they’re many things.”

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Mar142025
croatiaInterview

Studio tres pas: “Everything we do comes from a place of joy”

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Feb172025
serbiaFeatures

Time for Change: How Serbian students are making theatre during the blockades

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Feb102025
RomaniaFeatures

Microstagiune Showcase in Timișoara: Multiculturalism in action

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Jan292025
serbiaFeatures

A silence that speaks volumes: Showing solidarity with Serbia’s student protestors

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Jan232025
serbiaFeatures

All under the canopy: How student protesters in Serbia are making themselves heard

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Jan232025
kosovoFeatures

White People: Navigating the right to write

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Dec232024
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SEEstage’s favourite theatre shows of 2024

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Dec202024
North MacedoniaInterview

Dritëro Kasapi: “Theatre can create common cultural experiences”

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Nov192024
AlbaniaFeatures

Kosovo/Albania Theatre Showcase: Confronting the trauma of the past

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Nov102024
Bosnia and HerzegovinaFeatures

Unstoppable theatre: Highlights of the 64th MESS Festival

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Nov32024
croatiaInterview

Jasna Jasna Žmak: “It’s important to talk about artistic responsibility”

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Oct62024
SloveniaFeatures

Living Conditions: Staging Slovenia’s housing crisis

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Sep252024
serbiaFeatures

BITEF’s curatorial team: “We want to amplify voices that might not otherwise be heard”

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Sep122024
kosovoFeatures

Six Against Turkey: A parable about the degradation of democracy

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Sep92024
SloveniaFeatures

Mladi Levi Festival: A breath of fresh air for the Slovenian scene

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Sep52024
SloveniaInterview

Tjaša Črnigoj: “Women’s sexual pleasure is still taboo in our society”

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Jul152024
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Mirëdita, Dobar Dan cancelled in Belgrade. What comes next?

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Jun242024
AlbaniaInterview

Rozi Kostani: “It’s three times more difficult for female artists”

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May132024
serbiaFeatures

Sex for Beginners: Staging sex education in Serbia

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May42024
SloveniaInterview

ErosAntEros: Bringing Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards to the stage

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May22024
serbiaInterview

Igor Koruga: “Emancipation of queer culture is not just a Western creation”

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Apr262024
serbiaInterview

Haris Pašović: “Anyone who is excluded must be included”

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Apr212024
SloveniaInterview

Katarina Morano: “I deal with fear a lot in my work”

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Apr92024
kosovoInterview

Blerta Neziraj: “People never seem to learn from their tragedies”

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Apr52024
SloveniaInterview

Slovenia Counts: Sebastian Nübling and Jackie Poloni

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Apr22024
serbiaInterview

Kokan Mladenović: “We have to reinvent the theatre of our times”

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Mar282024
MontenegroInterview

Hana Rastoder: “I want to make revolutions in theatre”

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Mar262024
RomaniaInterview

Philip Parr: “There’s a wealth of passion for Shakespeare outside the UK”

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Mar132024
serbiaInterview

Anđelka Nikolić: “We need to give a chance to authors overlooked by history”

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Feb262024
serbiaFeatures

Exploring Serbia’s Independent Theatre Scene: “This country needs to change:”

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Feb222024
GeorgiaFeatures

The Metamorphosis of the New Theatre Tbilisi

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Feb192024
serbiaFeatures

The Andraš Urban Cook Book: a three-course feast

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Feb142024
HungaryFeatures

Inside dunaPart: Making theatre on the Hungarian independent scene

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Feb122024
SloveniaInterview

Lea Kukovičič: “We set out to save men from the patriarchy”

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Dec212023
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SEEstage’s favourite theatre shows of 2023

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Dec192023
GermanyInterview

Oliver Frljić: “The essence of my job is to be critical”

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Dec142023
SloveniaInterview

Michał Borczuch: “When one side remains silent, the other side may get loud”

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Dec112023
kosovoFeatures

Trojan Women – Replica: Breaking down barriers through theatre

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Nov202023
SloveniaInterview

Nina Ramšak Marković: “Comedy is an overlooked genre”

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Nov122023
SloveniaInterview

Goran Injac: “I’m always looking for ways to initiate a public debate”

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Oct302023
kosovoFeatures

Theatre in Times of Crisis: “We will have to reinvent ourselves”

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Oct252023
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The Best European Show: “A reality check of where we are today”

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Oct212023
Bosnia and HerzegovinaFeatures

63rd MESS Festival: Celebrating Susan Sontag in Sarajevo

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Oct182023
serbiaFeatures

57th BITEF: Sun, song and strength – a critical dialogue

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Oct122023
kosovoFeatures

Negotiating Peace: “Cultural cooperation in Europe is a political act”

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Oct72023
HungaryFeatures

Singing Youth: “Political systems embedded in culture are here to stay”

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Oct52023
serbiaFeatures

Belgrade Pride Theatre Festival: Queering the Serbian stage

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Oct52023
serbiaInterview

Anja Suša: “Theatre is one of the last bastions of privilege”

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Sep252023
kosovoFeatures

The Shadow Garden: Exploring trauma and war on stage

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Sep192023
Bosnia and HerzegovinaInterview

Selma Spahić: “Resistance in the arts is a necessity”

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Sep152023
MontenegroInterview

Zoran Rakočević: “Theatre is there to act against censorship”

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Sep72023
serbiaInterview

Robert Lenard: “Our theatre should be an intercultural environment”

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Sep42023
kosovoFeatures

Embracing Diversity through Art: ‘Unlimited’ sets the stage for inclusion

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Jul302023
croatiaFeatures

Croatian Theatre Showcase 2023: making hidden things visible

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Jul42023
serbiaFeatures

Telling trans stories on the Serbian stage

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Jul32023
serbiaFeatures

68th Sterijino pozorje: A critical dialogue

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Jul12023
SwedenFeatures

Migration Diary: Party Time

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Jun222023
serbiaFeatures

Actors under attack: Serbian actors face abuse for speaking out

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Jun122023
Bosnia and HerzegovinaInterview

Nihad Kreševljaković: “Artists have to respond to the world they see”

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Jun12023
kosovoInterview

Kushtrim Koliqi: “We have a clear role to play when dealing with the past”

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May202023
ItalyFeatures

POLIS Teatro Festival: Bringing the Balkans to Italian audiences

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May152023
croatiaFeatures

33rd Marulić Days Festival: Heartfelt drama and heavenly comedy

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May92023
serbiaInterview

Andrej Nosov: “Theatre fits this political space very well”

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May52023
ItalyInterview

POLIS Teatro Festival: “We have an attraction to the theatre of South East Europe”

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May22023
SloveniaInterview

Vito Weis: “You have to be relentless towards yourself and the material”

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May12023
SwedenFeatures

Migration Diary: The Dedijer connection

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Apr272023
SloveniaInterview

Nina Rajić Kranjac: “Questions of identity fascinate me”

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Apr22023
AlbaniaFeatures

Orpheus Descending in Albania: “Art is there to shake people up”

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Mar272023
GreeceFeatures

Greek Theatre Protests: “We have nothing to lose”

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Mar262023
serbiaInterview

Irena Popović Dragović: “Our society cherishes the cult of patriarchy”

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Mar242023
kosovoInterview

Teatri ODA at 20: The journey of an independent theatre in Kosovo

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Mar152023
GermanyFeatures

Radar Ost 2023: Mobilising West

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Mar132023
SwedenFeatures

Migration Diary: closed doors

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Mar52023
serbiaFeatures

Huddersfield: the making of a modern Serbian stage classic

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Feb202023
AlbaniaFeatures

ATA: The activist group using theatre to connect with the community. 

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Feb152023
serbiaInterview

Kinga Mezei: “It is difficult to be an independent artist in Serbia”

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Feb132023
serbiaInterview

Jovana Tomić: “The director’s main role is to allow people to share”

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Feb62023
SloveniaInterview

Vito Taufer: “Theatre is becoming more and more amateurish”

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Feb12023
GermanyInterview

Dragana Bulut: “Art and life are not separate, they feed each other”

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Jan292023
kosovoInterview

Kushtrim Sheremeti: “Theatre is the post-traumatic therapy that people need”

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Jan232023
SloveniaInterview

Počemučka: “The collective demands constant redefining”

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Dec232022
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SEEstage’s favourite theatre shows of 2022

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Dec192022
serbiaInterview

Olga Dimitrijević: “It’s impossible to do this job without falling into a trap”

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Dec122022
SwedenFeatures

Migration Diary: dark places

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Dec82022
serbiaFeatures

Desiré Central Station Festival 2022: exhilarating, playful, questioning

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Dec52022
serbiaInterview

Patrik Lazić: “Making theatre today is one big balancing act”

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Nov282022
serbiaFeatures

Yugoslav Theater Festival 2022: connecting the past with the present

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Nov282022
SwedenFeatures

Migration Diary: Crime and Punishment in Stockholm

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Nov252022
kosovoFeatures

Kosovo Theatre Showcase 2022: a platform for collaboration

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Nov232022
croatiaFeatures

Zagreb’s Kunst Teatar: “We want to attract new audiences to the theater”

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Nov222022
SloveniaInterview

Sebastijan Horvat: “All the former Yugoslav countries have a kind of dementia”

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Nov142022
SwedenFeatures

Migration Diary: a question of culture

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Nov132022
serbiaInterview

Sasha Milavic Davies: “The audience were on the verge of rioting”

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Nov62022
AlbaniaInterview

Lulzim Zeqja: “I always try to understand the character from the inside out”

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Nov32022
Bosnia and HerzegovinaFeatures

MESS Festival 2022: Explorations of the soul

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Nov22022
MontenegroFeatures

Zlatko Paković, Pasolini and the Performance They Tried to Ban

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Oct302022
SwedenFeatures

Migration Diary: In search of Strindberg

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Oct172022
SwedenFeatures

Migration Diary: language lessons

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Oct112022
AlbaniaInterview

Besmir Bitraku: “Directing has made me a better actor”

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Oct92022
serbiaInterview

Tanja Šljivar: “Laughter is a natural response to the absurdity of the world”

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Oct32022
SwedenFeatures

Migration Diary: an improvised life

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Sep252022
serbiaFeatures

Dr Ausländer (Made for Germany): documenting migrant stories

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Sep202022
serbiaFeatures

Novi Sad’s INFANT festival: reinterpreted classics and existential anxieties

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Sep42022
HungaryInterview

Maladype Theatre: “We are the black sheep of our theatre society”

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Aug302022
SloveniaFeatures

The 25th Mladi Levi Festival: independent, international, optimistic

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Aug292022
croatiaFeatures

Proving Your Worth: life as an emerging theatre artist in Croatia

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Jul262022
kosovoFeatures

Budgetary woes and endless bureaucracy: the challenges of producing regional theatre in Kosovo

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Jul142022
GermanyInterview

Hakan Savas Mican: “For a long time migrants were marginalized in theatre”

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Jun142022
MoldovaRomaniaFeatures

Matei Vișniec International Days Festival: combating barbarism and confronting the past

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Jun102022
serbiaFeatures

The 67th Sterijino Pozorje: a critical dialogue

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Jun52022
croatiaInterview

Ivana Vuković: “I write about the things to which I don’t have the answers”

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May312022
HungaryFeatures

The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: keeping tradition alive

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May302022
kosovoserbiaFeatures

The Handke Project: “Peter Handke is a product of the times in which we live”

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May242022
kosovoInterview Rebeka Qena in Stiffler at Teatri Oda, Prishtina. Photo: Sovereign Nrecaj

Doruntina Basha: “There is a knife in each of our backs”

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May232022
RomaniaserbiaUkraineFeatures

Trains, Flames and Synchronised Clapping: a dramaturg responds to Eurovision

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May192022
AlbaniaInterview

Finding Their Voice: making feminist theatre in Albania

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May112022
serbiaFeatures

The Festival of Professional Theatres of Vojvodina: the best theatre in Serbia?

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May92022
SloveniaInterview

Uroš Fürst: “Being an actor can be gladiator-like”

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May32022
serbiaFeatures

Deconstructing Konstrakta: the Artist must be analysed

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Apr282022
North MacedoniaInterview

Sasho Blazeski: “The worst thing an artist can do is be a member of a political party”

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Apr242022
AlbaniaGermanykosovoNorth MacedoniaserbiaSloveniaFeatures

Stand with Ukraine: acts of solidarity in the Western Balkans

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Apr202022
croatiaInterview

Pavlica Bajsić Brazzoduro: “Audio creates a whole new dimension”

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Apr192022
SloveniaInterview

Žiga Divjak: “We have to completely change our value system”

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Apr42022
GermanySloveniaInterview

Laibach: “We don’t belong to one state only – we belong to all of them”

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Apr12022
North MacedoniaInterview

Dejan Angelov: “Only with a thirst for knowledge can we create change”

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Mar292022
croatiaGermanyInterview

Oliver Frljić: “Theatre is what happens in the heads of the audience”

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Mar272022
RomaniaFeatures

Independent theatre in Romania: “You can’t change the system from the inside”

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Mar202022
serbiaFeatures

Ecocide is Everywhere in Serbia, but Eco-Theatre Remains on the Fringes 

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Mar182022
kosovoInterview

Yllka Gashi: “When you play a real person, it’s a huge responsibility”

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Mar152022
serbiaFeatures

Challenging the Western Gaze: staging Serbian stories in the UK

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Mar142022
North MacedoniaInterview

Eva Kamchevska: “Something is very rotten in the system”

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Mar72022
serbiaFeatures

Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2022: a guide to the theatre programme

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Mar62022
croatiaInterview

Ivor Martinić: “Dramaturgs are the most underestimated part of the theatre machinery”

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Mar32022
kosovoFeatures

Kosovo’s National Theatre Has a New Director (maybe)

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Mar12022
AlbaniaInterview

Ema Andrea: “Freedom is not something that is given to you; it is something you fight for”

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Feb282022
croatiaFeatures

What a Way to Make a Living: the rise of feminist dramaturgy in the Western Balkans

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Feb202022
North MacedoniaInterview

Boban Aleksoski: “As artists, it’s our job to unite people”

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Feb142022
serbiaInterview

Zlatko Paković: “Theater is a matter of radical imagination”

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Feb72022
GermanykosovoFeatures

Unmapping Theater: German theater and its attitude towards the ‘East’

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Feb32022
Bosnia and HerzegovinaFeatures

The Ghosts on Your Shoulder: Igor Memic and Miran Hadžić in conversation

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Jan252022
serbiaFeatures

A Light in the Dark: Remembering Igor Vuk Torbica

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Jan162022
croatiaInterview

Espi Tomičić: “It’s no longer shameful to talk about your background if you have grown up poor”

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Jan132022
serbiaFeatures

The Novak Djoković saga and Serbian cultural representation

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Jan92022
kosovoInterview

Blerta Neziraj: “As a female theatre director in Kosovo, you have to fight constantly.”

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Jan62022
serbiaFeatures

Joakim Vujić’s Negri: how a forgotten Serbian classic was given new life

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Jan42022
GermanyMoldovaInterview

Nicoleta Esinencu: On making enemies and creating communities

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Jan42022
serbiaFeatures Keanu Reeves in The Matrix: Resurrections. Photo: Warner Bros

The Never-Ending Story: On The Matrix: Resurrections, time and memory

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Dec302021
Bosnia and HerzegovinaserbiaFeatures

No Longer Silent: How a Bosnian theatre festival became a focal point for the MeToo movement

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Dec202021
GermanyHungaryInterview

Andras Dömötör: “We have to steal back our nationality”

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Dec162021
BelarusInterview

Belarus Free Theatre: “We are stronger than a dictatorship”

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Dec152021
AlbaniaFeatures

The Return of The Prefect – reviving the past

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Dec152021
Bosnia and HerzegovinacroatiaGermanykosovoserbiaFeatures

Theatre is a memory machine – mapping history from below

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Dec132021
BelarusUkraineFeatures Boombox frontman Andrei Khluvniuk in Alone. Photo by Justin Sutcliffe

Alone: Belarus Free Theatre and the Ukrainian rock star activist

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Dec62021
kosovoserbiaswitzerlandFeatures

Kosovo Theatre Showcase 2021: power play, puppetry and cultural mash-ups

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Dec32021
kosovoserbiaFeatures

Balkan Bordello: On the road with the Great Jones Repertory Company

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Nov302021
GermanykosovoFeatures

Video: How to Play – Representation and Body Politics on Stage

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Nov292021
AlbaniaFeatures

The Demolition of the National Theatre of Albania: chronicle of a tragedy foretold

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Nov242021
SloveniaInterview

Mateja Koležnik: “Art is a tool to open people’s minds”

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Nov182021
Bosnia and HerzegovinaserbiaInterview

Haris Pašović: “Europe today is a Europe of inequality”

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Nov82021
BelarusBosnia and HerzegovinaGermanyUkraineFeatures

Radar Ost: Venturing beyond frontiers

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Oct312021
kosovoFeatures

FemArt: The feminist festival tackling sexism in Kosovo

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Oct272021
Bosnia and HerzegovinaFeatures Schindler's Lift. Photo: Velija Hasanbegović

MESS Festival 2021: The show must go on

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Oct172021
serbiaFeatures

Surviving the Pandemic, Serbian Theatre Battles All Too Familiar Problems

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Oct52021
kosovoInterview

Adrian Morina: “I hope Kosovo can become more open-minded towards artists.”

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