This is the first edition of Qendra Multimedia’s theater showcase, as well as the first edition of a theater showcase ever organized in Kosovo. Qendra’s showcase 2018 will be held in Prishtina, from 19 – 21 October 2018 and this year there will be shown four plays produced by Qendra Multimedia, including a premiere of a new play ‘Hypocrites or the English Patient’. In this edition, there will be shown as well “Le Pont” play, produced in Paris, which will be opening the 48th edition of theatre festival by “Adriana Abdullahu” Theatre in Ferizaj.

This theater showcase brings as well two discussion panels and a literature and music evening. In this first edition, except for the Kosovar audience, there will be as well as 30 international guests, including festival selectors, theater critics, journalists, writers, directors and theatre admirers coming from all over the world.
Our aim is to make this theater showcase a yearly event. We believe that from the next edition in 2019, the showcase will be extended and it will include as well as plays produced from other theatres and theatre groups in Kosovo. Therefore, we believe that this Kosovar theater showcase is an excellent way to promote in the world the isolated Kosovar theatre. Besides that, this is a great opportunity for festival selectors, researchers, audience and foreign critics to follow, observe and enjoy the theatre from Kosovo and its trends. This first edition of the showcase will be accomplished in cooperation with the National Theatre of Kosovo, Oda Theatre and Dodona Theatre in Prishtina, together with “Adriana Abdullahu” Theatre in Ferizaj.

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PROGRAM

19 October
20:00 – 21:30, Oda Theater

Theater performance (world premiere): “THE HYPOCRITES or THE ENGLISH PATIENT”

20 October
11:00 – 13:00, Qendra Multimedia
Panel discussion: Cultural geography of Western Balkans

15:00 – 17:00, Qendra Multimedia
Panel discussion: European societies reflecting on critical crime novels

20:00 – 21:30, National Theater of Kosovo
Theater performance: 55 SHADES OF GAY

22:00 – 23:00, Hamam bar
Readings with Alida Bremer, Sasa Ilic, Elke Schmitter, Azem Deliu and Petar Andonovski and live music with Edona Reshitaj and band

21 October
11:00 – 12:00, Dodona Theater
Theater performance: PEER GYNT FROM KOSOVO

16:00 – 17:30, National Theater of Kosovo
Theater performance: A PLAY WITH FOUR ACTORS AND SOME PIGS AND SOME COWS AND SOME HORSES AND A PRIME MINISTER AND A MILKA COW AND SOME LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL INSPECTORS

20:00 – 21:00, "Adriana Abdullahu" Theater Ferizaj
Theater performance: LE PONT

All shows will be presented with English subtitles.

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