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.
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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.
Espi Tomičić: “It’s no longer shameful to talk about your background if you have grown up poor”
Croatian playwright Espi Tomičić talks about gender and dramaturgy, the performance of masculinity and combining art with activism.
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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.
Theatre is a memory machine – mapping history from below
On the marginalisation of Roma people on stage and in the wider world, and the role theatre can play in addressing genocide and as an archive of social memory.
Disanje (Breathing)
Olja Lozica’s exploration of grief, loss and time, a co=production between PlayDrama and Zagreb Youth Theatre (ZKM).
The Cherry Orchard in the Cherry Orchard
Bobo Jelčić brings the story of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard to present-day pandemic stricken Croatia in a performance that takes place entirely on Zoom.