Our Class
Tatjana Mandić Rigonat directs a powerful and effective production of Tadeusz Słobodzianek‘s play Our Class at the National Theatre Belgrade.
Desire to make a solid history will end up in failure/Wakatt
There were two dance pieces on the main programme of the 57th BITEF, one from Serbia, one a co-production from Belgium and Burkina Faso.
Can’t Escape Sundays
Talented young director Tamara Kostrešević helms an engaging new production of one of Tena Štivičić’s early plays.
Selection announced for 15th edition of Desiré Central Station Festival
The 15th edition of the regional contemporary theatre festival, Desire Central Station will take place between the 17th -26th of November at multiple locations in Subotica.
57th BITEF: Sun, song and strength – a critical dialogue
This year’s Belgrade International Theatre Festival (BITEF) marked Nikita Milivojević’s first as artistic director. At the end of eight days of performance, Borisav Matić, Andrej Čanji and Natasha Tripney gathered to discuss their impressions of the festival, the highlights and the let-downs.
Bertove kočije ili Sibila
Ivan Cerović’s well-performed if problematic production of a text by Velimir Lukić in which puppets come to life at the Serbian National Theatre.
Belgrade Pride Theatre Festival: Queering the Serbian stage
The Belgrade Pride Theatre Festival takes place every year during Pride Week. Andrej Čanji reports on this year’s programme and two very different explorations of queer lives in the region.
Anja Suša: “Theatre is one of the last bastions of privilege”
Theatre director and former curator of BITEF Anja Suša talks to Nick Awde about #Jeanne, her radical reboot of the story of Joan of Arc, and the reality of working as a theatre artist in Sweden.
Pains of Youth
Jovana Tomić directs a bittersweet, at times provocative reworking of Ferdinand Bruckner’s play about a group of disaffected, sexually entangled young people at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre.
Kabare Jugoslvenske
An alternative, feminist, matriarchal history of Yugoslavia presented in cabaret format by writer and director Ivan Leo Lemo at the National Theatre of Subotica.