Proving Your Worth: life as an emerging theatre artist in Croatia
Working for free and battling a centralised system: a look at what it’s like to be an emerging young theatre artist in Croatia.
Ivana Vuković: “I write about the things to which I don’t have the answers”
Ivana Vuković, the playwright, screenwriter and dramaturg from Split, discusses Croatia’s housing crisis and the need for artistic solidarity.
Bombardment
Review of Dino Pešut’s Bombardment (Granatiranje), a metatheatrical gay love story set against the backdrop of the Yugoslav wars, at KunstTeatar, Zagreb
Pavlica Bajsić Brazzoduro: “Audio creates a whole new dimension”
Croatian theatremaker Pavlica Bajsić Brazzoduro on the development of her particular model of radiophonic theatre and the power of sound
Oliver Frljić: “Theatre is what happens in the heads of the audience”
Oliver Frljić on theatre’s response to the war in Ukraine, the concept of ‘character, and making his return to the Croatian theatre scene.
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
Ivor Martinić: “Dramaturgs are the most underestimated part of the theatre machinery”
Croatian playwright Ivor Martinić on his search for artistic autonomy, playing the Author on stage, and how collaboration is one of the founding principles of his work.
What a Way to Make a Living: the rise of feminist dramaturgy in the Western Balkans
What is feminist dramaturgy? Ana Fazekaš explores the different forms feminist dramaturgical practice is taking across the Western Balkan region.
Kamen
Mirjana Karanović and Doris Šarić Kukuljica star in Marius von Mayenburg’s slippery play at Zagrebačko kazalište mladih (ZKM)
Mittelfest issues open call for Balkan and Central European artists
Mittelyoung – part of Mittelfest – has issued an open call for Italian, Central-European and Balkan makers of theatre, music, dance, circus and multidisciplinary arts.