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.
Kosovo Theatre Showcase 2021: power play, puppetry and cultural mash-ups
This year’s Kosovo Theatre Showcase took place over an intense five day period between 2nd-7th November 2021.
Balkan Bordello: On the road with the Great Jones Repertory Company
A group of Kosovar, Serbian and American actors set out on a tour of the Balkans with a vibrant modern reworking of a Greek tragedy. Natasha Tripney joined them on the road.
Video: How to Play – Representation and Body Politics on Stage
Milo Rau artistic director of NT Gent, Julia Wissert, artistic director of Theater Dortmund, and theatre critic Simon Strauss discuss questions of representation.
A.Y.L.A.N
Director Blerta Neziraj turns the theatre into the sea in a potent production of Jeton Neziraj’s play for Gjilan City Theater
The Double Life
A multi-lingual production in German, Serbian, Hungarian, Albanian and English, presented by Schlachthaus Theater Bern, as part of the Kosovo Theatre Showcase
FemArt: The feminist festival tackling sexism in Kosovo
The FemArt festival has been showcasing feminist performance and art in Kosovo for nine years. Fatlinda Daku talked to its founder and participants about why the festival was created and why it still matters.