It’s been six years since the end of Managed Approach, a project in Holbeck, Leeds, which managed a red light zone in 2014, before it was paused during COVID in 2020 and not reinstated in …
"So high you can kiss the sky" is one of the many iconic lines from With Ruby and I, a debut show by playwright Corrina O'Beirne, which premiered at the Brighton Fringe in 2025 and is up for…
How do forgiveness and reconciliation projects help heal a country's collective trauma and contribute to its future nation-building? What role does theatre play in this social activity? Thes…
Representation in the performing arts in the UK is in crisis. For years, voices have been warning of the lack of authentic working-class actors in TV and Theatre. Audition fees at the top dr…
The Flowers of Srebrenica should be impossible to stage. Irish academic Aidan Hehir's book, a narrative account of visiting Srebrenica (now a Memorial Centre), where the UN left thousands of…
Six Against Turkey, at The Kosovo Albania Showcase, is a new satire from playwright Jeton Neziraj and director and wife collaborator Blerta Neziraj. It explores the main actors in Turkey'…
In Flower Sajza, directed by Endri Çela at the National Experimental Theater of Tirana, two women stand on the stage facing the main body of the audience. They are behind a fence of barb…
Heartefact Fund is a young company based in Serbia. Normally, the company performs in an apartment in Belgrade, ensuring audiences feel an intimacy and closeness to the productions and actor…
The Director, a positive character The Critic  is a sitter on fences and neither a positive nor negative character The Writer, a positive character The Critic's Inner Voice, a nega…
Orest Pastukh is a theatre and film actor, director, playwright and educator. He was born in the Galicia region (Western region) of Ukraine and graduated from the Institute of Art at the Car…
By verity healey. Spurred on by the National Theatre production of James Graham's Dear England, verity healey discusses the notion that theatre in the United Kingdom might have a few things …
What is life? How can it be measured? How is it possible to compare one experience of life with another one? all of it, three extraordinary play poems by Alistair McDowall ask the unanswerab…
By verity healey. Theatremaker verity healey discusses two plays from Kosovo's 2022 Theatre Showcase that highlight Balkan women's stories and struggles.
If you don't know about loss, then you will by the end of this show. Sara (Ilire Vinca) is married to Din (Bujar Ahmeti). They have a daughter, Lola (Kosovare Krasniqi), who looks a similar …
Meta-theatre has been a bit of a theme at Kosovo's latest independent theatre showcase in Prishtina. Perhaps it's a coincidence, but I would lay a bet it's not. More likely, it is an emergin…
"In Kosovo men are bulls**t, we are like criminals…" Kushtrim Koliqi has been a human rights activist, theatremaker, filmmaker and producer on the Kosovo theatre scene for more than a deca…
The Handke Project, Kosovo Theatre Showcase, Teatri Oda, 26th October 2022 If The Handke Project " written by Kosovo and international playwright Jeton Neziraj and directed by his wife Blert…
Is this the first memorial disco theatre piece of its kind in modern theatre? Well, it's a disco all right. The traditional disco ball is replaced by a rotating Husino Miner, a sculpture of …
By verity healey. verity healey describes the power and significance of independent theatre in Türkiye by sharing her experience at the theatre festival, TheatreIST.
By verity healey. verity healey shares the journey and impact of Walk with Amal, an interactive, artistic project that centered on a large puppet refugee girl travelling through Europe.
By verity healey. verity healey, who spent time in Kosovo for its Theatre Showcase last October, discusses the precarious nature of Kosovo's independent theatre sector and shares he
By verity healey. verity healey recaps the multidisciplinary arts festival Kunstfest, which took place in Weimar, Germany in late August and early September this year and tackled
By verity healey. verity healey examines how Belarus Free Theatre is making work during COVID-19 and dives in to their latest show, A School for Fools.
By verity healey. verity healey does a deep-dive into the Our Stage " 4th European Bürgerbühne Festival, which took place in Dresden, Germany, in May 2019.
By verity healey. verity healey examines the concept of theatrical space as it applies to two shows that were presented at Germany's Our Stage festival in May: Invited and A Doll's House.