Since its foundation in 2002, we have produced and co-produced several theater performances, among which; “One flew Over the Kosovo Theater”, “Yue Madeleine Yue”, “Patriotic Hypermarket”, “The Last Supper”, “War in Times of Love”, “Travel to UNMIKISTAN”, “Enea 06”, “Love. State. Kosovo” “The Demolition of the Eiffel Tower” etc.
We create fresh and innovative theater performances that communicate across lingual and cultural borders and brings these performances to diverse audiences locally and internationally
Some of the theaters and companies with which we have cooperated with are: Volkstheater, Vienna; Markus Zohner Theater Compagnie, Lugano; Nomad theater, London; L'Espace d'un instant, Paris; National Theater of Kosovo, Prishtina; Bitef Theater, Belgrade; CZKD, Belgrade; Oda Theater, Prishtina; National Theater of Albania, Tirana; CTC, Skopje etc.
Our productions have been presented in various festivals throughout Europe, including: Euro-scene Leipzig; Die Besten aus dem Osten, Vienna; Via Modena - Italy; FIT Lugano; Zoom Festival - Croatia; International Theater Festival “JoakimInterFest” Kragujevac - Serbia; Spielart Festival München, Zürcher Theater Spektakel - Switzerland, CULTURESCAPES - Switzerland, Desire Festival Novi Sad - Serbia, Exponto International Theatre Festival – Lubljana ect.
Place: Printing House “Rilindja” – Pristina, Kosovo
Opening 13 February 2007, 20:00h
Further Performances: 14, 15 February 2007. 20:00h
Artistic Concept and Director: Markus Zohner
Dramaturg: Jeton Neziraj
Choreographer: Lucía Baumgartner
Composer: Gabriele Marangoni
Translator and Artistic Collaborator: Shota Bukoshi
Executive Producer: Arben Zharku
Photographer: Christophe Quirion
Technical Director and Light Design: Martin Wieser
Technical Assistant: Skender Latifi
Personal Assistant to Mr. Markus Zohner: Nora Jentzsch
Organizer: Bekim Guri
Production Assistants: Alban Makolli, Zoga Çeta
Video: FIZZO FILM, Lugano
Space Concept: Jacob Nassi
Translator of the Play: Blendi Kraja
Producers: Jeton Neziraj, Markus Zohner
Actors: Shengyl Ismaili, Adriana Matoshi, Edona Reshitaj, Arben Zharku, Shkelzen Veseli, Vedat Haxhiislami, Adrijan Biba
Dancer: Lucía Baumgartner
Musician: Gabriele Marangoni
Theatre Performance
“The Last Supper” is a performance created during an international theatre project developed by the Swiss and the Kosovan theatre companies. KOSOVO.BLOOD.THEATRE.PROJECT, which has started in December 2006, has presented > ACTION 1 and > ACTION 2, shown in Prishtina on December 13th, 2006 and on January 18th, 2007.
““The Last Supper” is a performance inspired by the old albanian code called
“The code of Leke Dukagjini”. Our interest was to research and develop the way how this code has codified relations regarding the revenge. “Before you kill the murderer in order to take revenge, you are obliged to call his name.
After you have killed him, you have to turn his body with the face towards the sky… The day they burry him, you have to have dinner with the victim’s family. Once you left their house, you again will become target of the murderer’s family revenge ”!
Starting from this KANUN, our show goes further and tries in very deep way to explore today’s relations between Albanians and Serbs after the war in Kosovo.
It is a performance about revenge and forgiving, about the deep human questions coming up after all moral, social and human values had been destroyed by war.
THE LAST SUPPER is beeing realized with the contributions of:
Swiss Cutural Foundation PRO HELVETIA, Zurich;
Swiss Confederation - Federal Department of Foreign Affairs;
Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Kosova;
Swiss Cultural Programme Kosovo PRO HELVETIA, Prishtina;
SWISSCOY;
HOLCIM;
The Olof Palme International Center, Sweden.
We also thank for their support:
The National and University Library of Kosova, Printing House „Rilindja“ and Dodona Theatre.
