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.
By Jeton Neziraj
Directed by: Blerta Neziraj
Actors: Adrian Morina, Ernest Malazogu, Shengyl Ismaili, Armend Ismajli
Choreographers: Violeta Vitanova and Stanislav Genadiev
Puppets and shadows: Clément Peretjatko
Music composer: Gabriele Marangoni
Stage and light designer: Nico de Rooij
Costume designer: Marija Papucevska
Dramaturg: Borka Pavićević
Executive producer: Jeton Neziraj
Production ass.: Johanna von Lenthe
Ass. costume designer: Marta Trendafilova
Tour coordinator: Ernest Zymberi
Stage technician: Skender Latifi
Produced by: Qendra Multimedia (Prishtina)
In cooperation with: Center for Cultural Decontamination (Belgarde), Pushkunst / indipendent art platform (Milano), Compagnie Collapse (Lyon), National Theater of Kosovo (Prishtina).
In a contemporary urban landscape, we follow the weird story of a European, who is kidnapped by two Islamic terrorists because he insists on removing burkas from the heads of Muslim women in Paris. Meanwhile, as if in a fairy tale from the past, in a parallel story, an Ottoman soldier is ordered by the Sultan to distribute burkas to recently- converted Balkan women. The Demolition of the Eiffel Tower is an alternative to the mainstream media’s fixation on the burka; the play opens discourse on the most substantive issue – to know and understand the drama of the other.
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“This play, has a gruesome love story at its core and contains fairy tale-esque aspects. The political satire is juxtaposed with various poetic motifs. Jose is a descendant of Orpheus; he also loses his woman by looking at her. A ghostlike figure named “Young Osman” wanders through Aisha’s dreams – one of 19th century Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II’s soldiers, whose mission is to veil the women of Europe.
(Wolfgang Kralicek, theater critic, Vienna)
“Two parallel destinies for which the themes of physical love, nakedness and Moslem religion are entwined together. To all this, a humorous ingredient is added: the building and subsequent collapse of a miniature Eiffel Tower made of matchsticks, a symbolic representation of a projected terrorist attack. A joyous text in which are found burlesque scenes, such as the one in which the two terrorists shown as true jihadists buffoons interrupt a theatre performance, much more gruesome ones, such as an episode of torture in Pakistan, women's monologues about the wearing of the veil, as well as Osman's more courteous tale when he meets Maria and discovers love.”
(Gilles Boulan, Le Billet des Auteurs de Théâtre)
