Belgrade Pride Theatre Festival: Queering the Serbian stage
The Belgrade Pride Theatre Festival takes place every year during Pride Week. Andrej Čanji reports on this year’s programme and two very different explorations of queer lives in the region.
Programme announced for 63rd edition of MESS
The 63rd International Theater Festival MESS in Sarajevo will be held this year from 30th September to 8th October and will feature work by Maladype Theatre and Boris Liješević.
Programme announced for PrizrenFest 2023
The second edition of PrizrenFest, Kosovo’s open air international theatre festival, will take place between 22nd-28th July.
Kushtrim Koliqi: “We have a clear role to play when dealing with the past”
Director and producer Kushtrim Koliqi talks to Nick Awde about fusing culture and activism via his work with Integra and the role theatre can play addressing social issues in the region.
POLIS Teatro Festival: Bringing the Balkans to Italian audiences
This year’s POLIS Teatro Festival, which takes place annually in Ravenna, had a Balkan focus. Natasha Tripney reports on a small festival with big ambitions.
POLIS Teatro Festival: “We have an attraction to the theatre of South East Europe”
This year’s POLIS Teatro Festival, which takes place annually in Ravenna, has a Balkan focus. Cofounders Agata Tomšič and Davide Sacco, of ErosAntEros, explain why they want to bring work from the region to Italian audiences.
Competition programme announced for the 58th Maribor Festival
The competition programme for the 58th Maribor Theatre Festival will include work by Nina Rajić Kranjac and Jernej Lorenci
SEEstage’s favourite theatre shows of 2022
As the year draws to a close, SEEstage’s writers across the region discuss the shows that made a lasting impression on them in 2022.
Kosovo Theatre Showcase 2022: a platform for collaboration
Berat Bajrami reflects on the fifth edition of the Kosovo Theatre Showcase, and on the festival’s continuing impact on the Kosovo theatre scene.
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.