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.
Consent
Nebojša Bradić directs the Serbian premiere of Nina Raine’s play about marital breakdown and the way that rape is treated by the legal system
Vlast
Milan Nešković’s new production of Branislav Nušić’s unfinished comedy at Belgrade’s National Theatre
Miss Julie
Haris Pašović directs Strindberg’s play at Madlenianum Theatre in Belgrade setting it in contemporary Slovenia.
U raljama života
The Belgrade Drama Theater ensemble enlivens Biljana Srbljanović’s adaptation of the popular novel by Dubravka Ugrešić, Štefica Cvek in the Jaws of Life.
Haris Pašović: “Europe today is a Europe of inequality”
It has been 30 years since renowned director Haris Pašović last worked in Belgrade. Borisav Matić speaks to him about his long and eventful career.
Sofia
BITEF dance company and German choreographer Felix Landerer present a strikingly sterile work about systems, hierarchies and power.
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
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.