The Handke Project: “Peter Handke is a product of the times in which we live”
A new play exploring the controversy surrounding Peter Handke’s Nobel Prize win and what it says about artistic responsibility.
A new play exploring the controversy surrounding Peter Handke’s Nobel Prize win and what it says about artistic responsibility.
Kosovo’s National Theatre has a new director in Kushtrim Sheremeti, but the path to his appointment has not been an easy one and may not be over yet.
Edona Kryeziu looks at two recent festivals – Radar Ost and Post-West – and what they reveal about German theatre’s relationship with the ‘east’
Dino Mustafic explodes Goethe’s Faust in a vibrant, penetrating and highly physical production at Tirana’s National Experimental Theater
This year’s Kosovo Theatre Showcase took place over an intense five day period between 2nd-7th November 2021.
A group of Kosovar, Serbian and American actors set out on a tour of the Balkans with a vibrant modern reworking of a Greek tragedy. Natasha Tripney joined them on the road.
The 4th edition of Kosovo Theatre Showcase will run from 2nd to 7th November in Prishtina, Ferizaj and Gjilan. Across a period of five days, this years’ Showcase will see around 50 regional and international festival directors, critics, journalists and other theatre professionals gather in Kosovo to experience the newest Kosovo theatre productions, to present…
Adrian Morina is an actor and part of the ensemble at Kosovo’s national theatre, Teatri Kombëtar, where until recently he was its acting artistic director. Verity Healey talks to him about his career and Kosovo’s theatre scene a year later into the pandemic.
Blendi Arifi directs a tense production of David Mamet’s modern American classic in Gjilan.
As an actor, Kushtrim Sheremeti is a familiar presence on screen in Kosovo and Albania. Appointed general director of the National Theatre of Kosovo in 2022, he talks to Natasha Tripney about post-pandemic cultural challenges and his search for a temporary home for the theatre.