Pas’humbja
A moving play by Florent Mehmeti about learning to deal with grief and continue living after loss at Teari Oda.
King Lori – Instagration
Jeton Neziraj’s layered new play about integration, ‘instagration’, the rapper Loredana Zefi and the politician Ylfete Fanaj.
Yllka Gashi: “When you play a real person, it’s a huge responsibility”
Yllka Gashi is the star of Blerta Basholli’s acclaimed film Hive, based on the inspiring true story of Fahrije Hoti, on the responsibility that comes with portraying a real person on screen and the women that inspire her.
Kosovo’s National Theatre Has a New Director (maybe)
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.
Unmapping Theater: German theater and its attitude towards the ‘East’
Edona Kryeziu looks at two recent festivals – Radar Ost and Post-West – and what they reveal about German theatre’s relationship with the ‘east’
2022 Talia e Flakës festival successfully held in Gjilan
Despite climbing numbers of Covid-19 cases and new restrictions, the Talia e Flakës festival, intended to promote Albanian drama, was held in Gjilan, Kosovo, over six-days in January.
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.
Blerta Neziraj: “As a female theatre director in Kosovo, you have to fight constantly.”
Blerta Neziraj, one of Kosovo’s leading theatre directors, talks about international collaboration and the challenges of working as a female theatre director in the country.
Stiffler
Doruntina Basha’s absurdist new play about the way patriarchal society and institutions subject women to judgement and abuse.
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.