Polip Festival 2026: Eco-theatre in Prishtina
Polip, Prishtina’s annual literary festival, has been reconceptualized as a festival for the performing arts. Borisav Matić reports on this year’s programme which focused on ecological theatre.
The Double Bass
Alban Goranci gives an engaging and warm performance in an adaptation of Patrick Süskind’s bittersweet one-man play
Kabare 1999
Zana Hoxha directs an atmospheric and inventive relocation of the classic 1960s Kander and Ebb musical to post-war Kosovo
Biedermann and the Arsonists
Agon Myftari directs Max Frisch’s still-resonant absurdist classic in an entertaining production at the National Theatre of Kosovo
Gidion’s Knot
Hana Qena directs a taut, well-performed production of Johanna Adam’s layered 2013 play about mental health and the school system.
Disgust
Bujar Ahmeti gives a superb performance in Astrit Kabashi’s play a nuanced portrait of one man’s mental unravelling.
Rope
Skënder Podvorica directs an atmospheric production of Patrick Hamilton’s classic play about two young men’s attempts to get away with murder.
Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept
Jeton Neziraj’s new play, a coproduction between Qendra Multimedia and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, explores reconciliation and forgiveness in Kosovo and South Africa.
Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept: The search for reconciliation
Jeton Neziraj’s new play, Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept, explores reconciliation and forgiveness processes in Kosovo and South Africa. Andrej Čanji spoke to the creative team about their research process and how they’re bringing these topics to the stage.
Prishtina: The Premeditated Killing of a Dream
Jeton Neziraj’s potent reworking of a play inspired by the life and legacy of murdered architect Rexhep Luci