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.
Robert Lenard: “Our theatre should be an intercultural environment”
Robert Lenard, artistic director of Novi Sad Theatre, talks to Borisav Matić about the importance of interculturality, the current state of the independent scene in Hungary and his cabaret based on Foucault.
(Pra) Faust
Svetozar Cvetković stars in Boris Liješević’s stripped back production of Goethe’s play at Belgrade Drama Theatre.
Telling trans stories on the Serbian stage
Two recent shows on the Serbian independent scene have explored trans issues in strikingly different ways. Andrej Čanji discusses Before We Begin and Major and Helena.