Address: Luka Beograd, Blue hall, 37 Zorza Klemansoa St, 11000, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.

"Love", one of the most wanted productions in the world, written and directed by Alexander Zeldin, follows the destinies of several people driven to a homeless shelter by adverse circumstances and loss of home, homeland, or job.

Duration: 1 hour 30 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 2000 RSD (17 €)

Credits:

• Text and direction: Alexander Zeldin 
• Production: A Zeldin Company, London, United Kingdom, in coproduction with Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris, France Original production: National Theatre of Great Britain in co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.

Address: Milesevska St. No.64a, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles

Following the performances at the Zagreb Youth Theatre and at the Slovenian National Theatre Drama in Ljubljana, director Sebastijan Horvat is ending the year with Heiner Müller’s Cement at the Belgrade Drama Theatre. 

Cement is a piece about turmoil; from the revolutionary times that it treats, the struggle between the emancipatory aspirations of his characters and their anchoring in the traditional family relationships they grew up in, to the romantic relationship between the main characters, reflecting the impact of social circumstances on the most intimate level. 

This third performance in Belgrade, inspired by the great East German playwright Cement, will be based on an original play by Milan Ramšak Marković, in which the place and time of the story moves to Belgrade in the present day. 

The relationship between trauma, memory and political dementia that we gradually get lost in and the conflict that is encoded in our bodies are just some of the motifs introduced by this last act of a conversation with Heiner Müller.

Duration: 140 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 1.500 RSD (13€)

Credits:

• Written by: Milan Ramšak Marković, inspired by Heiner Müller
• Direction: Sebastijan Horvat 
• Costume Designer: Belinda Radulović
• Composer: Drago Ivanuša
• Choreography and Stage Movement: Ana Dubljević
• Set Designer, Author of Video materials: Igor Vasiljev
• Lighting Designer: Aleksandar Čavlek
• Cast: Milena Župančič, Miodrag Miki Krstović, Bojana Stojković, Emir Ćatović / Milan Zaric, Ivan Zablaćanski, Isidora Simijonović, Marija Pikić, Nedim Nezirović

How to book?

Tickets are already available for purchase through the National Theatre of Belgrade’s website here.

Address: Kralja Milana 50, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles

Who is the mysterious Lady Frola who moved into our neighbourhood? And why doesn’t she live with the son-in-law who visits all the time, or with her daughter who never goes out and no one has ever seen! What secret are they hiding, and what misfortune drove them here from the town where they lived before?
These are the questions that trouble the characters of this play by Pirandello. Having nothing – except emptiness – behind the respectable and important social masks that they wear, they become obsessive and tireless in digging around and analysing other people’s lives, in the firm belief that they can get to the truth.
‘Right you are, if you think so’ is a humorous, cynical and wise play by the Nobel Prize laureate and famous Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, one of the most important reformers of drama theatre in the 20th century. It contains motifs and ideas that resonate with the times we live in, where truth equals information, and compassion for those closest to us wanes and disappears before the desire for sensation.

Duration: 85 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 10-12€

Credits:

• Drama: Luigi Pirandelo
• Direction: Jagoš Marković
• Adaptation, Set Design, Music Selection: Jagoš Marković
• Translation: Jugana Stojanović
• Costume Design: Bojana Nikitović
• Vocal Coach: Ljiljana Mrkić Popović
• Lighting Design: Dejan Draganov
• Sound Design: Igor Bošković
• Stage Manager: Dušan Milosavljević
• Prompter: Ksenija Ćirica

Cast:

• Lamberto Laudisi: Vojislav Brajović
• Lady Frola: Jelisaveta Sablić 
• Mr Ponza: Marko Janketić
• Lady Ponza: Jelena Trkulja
• Advisor Agazzi: Branislav Lečić
• Lady Amalia: Jasmina Avramović/ Nataša Tapušković
• Dino: Lazar Đukić
• Lady Sirelli: Vesna Stanković
• Mr Sirelli: Nenad Jezdić
• Mayor: Irfan Mensur
• Lady Cini: Rada Djuričin/ Cvijeta Mesić
• A waiter in the Agazzi's home: Slobodan Tešić

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through Yugoslav Drama Theatre’s website here.

Address: Skver Mire Trailović 1, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.

The performance "Crises" concludes the programme of the festival, whose mission is to promote new names. This performance is deliberately put at the end of the 56th Bitef as it expands the topical frame of the main programme: it tackles not only the social issues related to work but also the philosophical phenomenon of crisis.

Duration: 1 hour 15 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 2000 RSD (17€)

Credits:

• Direction: Žiga Divjak
• Production: Nova Pošta (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska)

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.

Address: Francuska 3, Beograd | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles

Aleksija Rajčić, the main heroine of Đorđe Kosić's play, has not had many choices in her life. Like all the other women, she is surrounded by those whose lives represent the model through which hers is expected to function. In a world steeped by the patriarchy, the only thing expected from Aleksija is to keep silent and endure hardships. The only alternative to a life that was predestined for violence and deprived of any choice, happiness or possibility of emancipation, even before it began, is death. 

Through a specific stylistic intervention in which he combines all the supporting characters in a male and female choir, the author of the play singles out Aleksija and her experience, putting them in focus alongside the depersonalised characters of this story, i.e. society, which is the biggest obstacle in this woman’s search for freedom and happiness.

In addition to the formal shaping of the text, the playwright also plays with the language, skillfully depicting the traumatic life story of a woman who, paradoxically, finds a way out of the vicious circle of violence and ultimate freedom in prison.

Duration: 75 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 1.500-2.000 RSD ( around 12-18€)

Credits

• Drama: Đorđe Kosić
• Premiere 30.04.2022. ,,Raša Plaović” stage
• Directed by: Jug Đorđević
• Composer: Nevena Glušica
• Dramaturge: Tijana Grumić
• Set Design: Andrea Rondović
• Costume Design: Vеlimirka Damjanović
• Choreographer: Damjan Kecojević
• Vocal Coach: Ljiljana Mrkić Popović
• Associate Ethnomusicologist: Danica Krstić
• Producer: Jasmina Urošević
• Stage Manager: Sandra Rokvić
• Prompter: Danica Stevanović
• Cast: AleksijaRajčić Vanja Ejdus
• Choirmasters: Iva Milanović, Novak Radulović
• Choir: Sara Ristić, Nevena Milošević, Vera Zečević, Danijela Milošević, Mladen Lukić, Goran Milošević
• Light Operator: Srđan Mićević
• Make-Up: Marko Dukić
• Stage crew: Chief Zoran Mirić
• Sound Operator: Roko Mimica, Dejan Dražić

How to book?

Tickets will be available for purchase through the National Theatre of Belgrade’s website here in September.

Address: Luka Beograd, Blue hall, 37 Zorza Klemansoa St, 11000, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.

"Love", one of the most wanted productions in the world, written and directed by Alexander Zeldin, follows the destinies of several people driven to a homeless shelter by adverse circumstances and loss of home, homeland, or job.

Duration: 1 hour 30 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 2000 RSD (17 €)

Credits:

• Text and direction: Alexander Zeldin 
• Production: A Zeldin Company, London, United Kingdom, in coproduction with Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris, France Original production: National Theatre of Great Britain in co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.