“A Working Class Hero” – Identity And Class at Voila! Theatre Festival
Representation in the performing arts in the UK is in crisis. For years, voices have been warning...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 2nd Dec 2025 | Acting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Representation in the performing arts in the UK is in crisis. For years, voices have been warning...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 27th Oct 2025 | Bosnia, Review, Theatre and Politics
The Flowers of Srebrenica should be impossible to stage. Irish academic Aidan Hehir’s book, a...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 3rd Dec 2024 | Kosovo, Kosovo Albania Theatre Showcase 2024, Review, Theatre and Politics
Six Against Turkey, at The Kosovo Albania Showcase, is a new satire from playwright Jeton Neziraj...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 18th Nov 2024 | Documentary Theatre, Kosovo, Kosovo Albania Theatre Showcase 2024, Review
In Flower Sajza, directed by Endri Çela at the National Experimental Theater of Tirana, two women...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 18th Nov 2024 | Kosovo, Kosovo Albania Theatre Showcase 2024, Review, Serbia, Theatre and Gender
Heartefact Fund is a young company based in Serbia. Normally, the company performs in an apartment...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 17th Nov 2024 | Kosovo, Kosovo Albania Theatre Showcase 2024, Review
The Director, a positive character The Critic is a sitter on fences and neither a positive nor...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 28th Nov 2023 | Interview, Kosovo, Ukraine
Orest Pastukh is a theatre and film actor, director, playwright and educator. He was born in the...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 19th Nov 2023 | Kosovo, Review, Theatre and Politics
A persistent theme in this year’s Kosovo Theatre Showcase has been remembrance. A takeaway from...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 13th Nov 2023 | Kosovo, Review, Theatre and Politics
The Shadow Garden, part of this year’s Kosovo Theatre Showcase, seems an almost impossible task to...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 8th Nov 2023 | Kosovo, Review, Theatre and Politics
There are wars, and then there are post wars, the kind of which take place around the negotiating...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 6th Nov 2023 | Dramaturgy, Kosovo, Review
Some years ago, I discussed my love of buckwheat with the co-artistic director of Belarus Free...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 2nd Nov 2023 | Kosovo, Review, Theatre and Politics
Everywhere’s a stage, but not all stages are equal. Some stages are empty of story and empathy,...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 14th Jun 2023 | London, Review, United Kingdom
What is life? How can it be measured? How is it possible to compare one experience of life with...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 21st Dec 2022 | Kosovo, Review, Theatre and Politics
If you don’t know about loss, then you will by the end of this show. Sara (Ilire Vinca) is married...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 11th Dec 2022 | Kosovo, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review
Meta-theatre has been a bit of a theme at Kosovo’s latest independent theatre showcase in...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 1st Dec 2022 | Interview, Kosovo, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics
“In Kosovo men are bulls**t, we are like criminals…” Kushtrim Koliqi has been a human rights...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 13th Nov 2022 | Adaptation, Dramaturgy, Kosovo, Review, Theatre and Politics
The Handke Project, Kosovo Theatre Showcase, Teatri Oda, 26th October 2022 If The Handke Project...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 9th Nov 2022 | Directing, Kosovo, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics
Is this the first memorial disco theatre piece of its kind in modern theatre? Well, it’s a disco...
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The Queen of Versailles Musical or the Funeral of… by Lisa Monde 29th October 2025
“Aşınma” (“Corrosion”): A… by Seda Ilter 23rd November 2025
“Trilogia Cadela Força – Capítulo II:… by Jenny Strataki 6th August 2025 

A Theatre Of Boredom And Theatrical Distrust (André… by S.E. Gontarski 4th December 2025
The Filmed Performance “Woodland Bird… by Martin Blaszk 9th November 2025 
James Graham’s “Punch” at the Apollo Theatre:… by Aleks Sierz 30th September 2025 