Address: 4, Dr Subotića Starijeg Street, Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles

The titles of Dr Ausländer (Made for Germany) refer to the central theme of the project by director Bojan Đorđev; mass emigration of Serbian doctors and other medical workers to Germany, in search of a better life and more favourable working conditions.

Duration: 1 hour 20 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 1600 RSD (13,50 €)

Credits:

• Dramaturgy: Mina Milošević and Tanja Šljivar Concept Direction: Bojan Đorđev
• Production: Bitef Theatre and Yugoslav Drama Theatre

How to book?

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

Address: Birčaninova 21, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.

Coproduced by Bitef and Centre for Cultural Decontamination, A World Without Women is an auteur's project by Maja Pelević and Olga Dimitrijević which examines the representation and the general position of women in Belgrade theatre.

Duration: 2 hours

Price: 1600 RSD (13,50 €)

Credits:

• Authors: Maja Pelević and Olga Dimitrijević
• Production: Bitef Theatre and Centre for Cultural Decontamination

How to book?

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

Address: Aberdareva St. No 1, 11000 Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.

Once upon a time, there was an ancient custom in which only a boy could inherit the royal throne. This theatrical adaptation of Dan Totheroh’s comic fantasy books follows the story of a boy and a girl of royal descent who are stolen from their families. Will they manage to overcome all obstacles and change this unjust law? And who will be the new emperor?

Duration: 55 min

Genre: Youth theatre

Price: 10 - 12€

Credits:

• Direction, theatrical adaptation and movement: Branislava Stefanović
• Assistant direction and choreography: Katarina Ilijašević
• Set design: Tanja Žiropađa
• Costume design: Maria Marković Milojev
• Costume design assistant: Martina Malobović
• Music: Dragana Jovanović
• Percussion: Nikola Veličković
• “Youth Ballet” / Répétiteur: Mila Stijak

Cast:

• Marijana Vićentijević Badovinac, Goran Balančević, Arsenije Tubić, Ljiljana Peroš, Nenad Radović, Katarina Dimitrijević, Aleksa Jovčić / Filip Stankovski, Nikola Kerkez, Sandra Rodić Janković, Ivana Adžić, Đorđe Kreća
• Army of the Imperial Court / Chinese Acrobatic Troupe / Big Green Dragon “YOUTH BALLET“
• Lazar Tirić
• Una Stepanović
• Ana Đerković
• Ana Svorcan

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase following this link.

Address: Luka Beograd, Old Matez, 37 Zorza Klemansoa St, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Slovenian with Serbian and English subtitles.

‘Solo’ consists of four performers, though its starting point truly was a solo venture; based on a personal, professional reflection by the director Nina Rajić Kranjac and her position in her line of work and theatrical circumstances in Slovenia.

Duration: 3 hour 30 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: TBA

Credits:

• Idea, concept and performance: Nina Rajić Kranjac, Nataša Keser, Benjamin Krnetić, Marko Mandić 
• Production: Nova Pošta (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska)

How to book?

Tickets will be available for purchase through Bitef’s website and respective partners in September.

Address: 4, Dr Subotića Starijeg Street, Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles

The titles of Dr Ausländer (Made for Germany) refer to the central theme of the project by director Bojan Đorđev; mass emigration of Serbian doctors and other medical workers to Germany, in search of a better life and more favourable working conditions.

Duration: 1 hour 20 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 1600 RSD (13,50 €)

Credits:

• Dramaturgy: Mina Milošević and Tanja Šljivar Concept Direction: Bojan Đorđev
• Production: Bitef Theatre and Yugoslav Drama Theatre

How to book?

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

Address: Birčaninova 21, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.

Coproduced by Bitef and Centre for Cultural Decontamination, A World Without Women is an auteur's project by Maja Pelević and Olga Dimitrijević which examines the representation and the general position of women in Belgrade theatre.

Duration: 2 hours

Price: 1600 RSD (13,50 €)

Credits:

• Authors: Maja Pelević and Olga Dimitrijević
• Production: Bitef Theatre and Centre for Cultural Decontamination

How to book?

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

Address: Aberdareva St. No 1, 11000 Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.

Boy with a Suitcase, written by Mike Kenny, tells the story of Naz, a 12 year old boy who is forced to leave his home and undertake a long and dangerous journey to a ‘promised land’ where his brother lives, in pursuit of a better life. 

In his small suitcase, Naz carries his biggest treasure - bedtime stories told by his parents during his childhood. With the help of these stories and Krysia, a girl he meets along the way, Naz manages to meet with his brother in safety and tell a new story: his own.

Duration: 140 min

Genre: Youth theatre

Price: 10 - 12€

Credits:

• Direction: Damjan Kecojević
• Translation: Milica Naumović
• Playwright: Bojana Lazić
• Set design: Zorana Petrov
• Costume design: Maja Mirković
• Music: Vladimir Pejaković
• Cast: Mladen Lero, Jelena Ilić, Jovana Cvetković, Jelena Ćuruvija Đurica / VladislavaĐorđević, Dubravka Kovjanić, Nedim Nezirović

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase following this link.

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: 2.000 RSD (12-17€)

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: Luka Beograd, Old Matez, 37 Zorza Klemansoa St, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Slovenian with Serbian and English subtitles.

‘Solo’ consists of four performers, though its starting point truly was a solo venture; based on a personal, professional reflection by the director Nina Rajić Kranjac and her position in her line of work and theatrical circumstances in Slovenia.

Duration: 3 hour 30 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 2000 RSD (17€

Credits:

• Idea, concept and performance: Nina Rajić Kranjac, Nataša Keser, Benjamin Krnetić, Marko Mandić 
• Production: Nova Pošta (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska)

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.

An auteur project by Ersan Mondtag, one of the most promising young artists of the German and European theatre scenes. Living Room at the Belgrade Drama Theatre is a part of the eponymous project initiated in 2021 in the Belgian theatre NTGent.

The title is a word play which is untranslatable into Serbian – since it is a living room, i.e. sitting room or - literally translated from English - a room for living.

“My international career was launched several years ago, at the 51st Bitef festival, which makes my relationship with Belgrade quite unique and I’m glad to be back. Living Room, the second part of the trilogy The Living, is a story about life. We see an elderly woman who is getting ready for work in her living room. Once the stage rotates, we see a young woman in the same situation. That’s practically the same life over the course of 40 years.”

- Ersan Mondtag

Duration: 90 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: RSD 1.500 (around 13€)

Credits:

• Authorship, Direction, Set Design and Lighting Design: Ersan Mondtag
• Co-Author: Tijana Grumić
• Costume Design: Josa Marx
• Sound Design: Jonas Grundner-Culemann
• Consecutive Interpretation: Dušan Nikolić
• Assistant Director: Jug Đorđević, Jonas Grundner-Culemann
• Artistic Assistant: Simon Lesemann
• Cast: Vesna Čipčić, Aleksandra Anja Alač / Iva Ilinčić, Ljubomir Bulajić, Aleksandar Jovanović
• Organization: Bojana Mišić Drnda
• Stage Manager and Prompt: Jovana Matić
• Works of art used in the performance by: „Osvajanje Beograda“, Katarina Ivanović (National Museum in Belgrade), „Moj život po Vazariju“, Olja Ivanjicki (“Olga Olja Ivanjicki” Fund)
• Our gratitude to Mr. Dejan Đurović
• Photography: Dragana Udovičić
• Co-production: Belgrade Drama Theatre and Bitef Theatre

How to book?

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

Address: Studentski trg 16, 11000, Belgrade | Event Map 

Performance in Serbian with an English synopsis distributed beforehand. 

Dancing Trees is a site-specific dance theatre show by the independent theatre troupe and artistic collective DAH Theatre, created in collaboration with the Belgrade Dance Institute. The performance explores the importance of tree preservation. The show consists of seven performers with the original music, and it aims to sensitise the audience and encourage initiatives in defence against excessive tree felling. In addition to the performances in the parks, the project includes talks and a digital platform, webinar and video, as well as other activities that connect art and ecology.

Duration: 50 min

Genre: Site-specific performance

Price: Free

Credits:

• Direction and Dramaturgy: Dijana Milošević and Jadranka Anđelić 
• Performers: Vladimir Čubrilo, Đurđija Jelenković, Ivana Milovanović/Đorđe Kocić, Ivan Nikolić, Miona Petrović, Ivana Milenović Popović, Zoran Vasiljević 
• Texts and sources: Peter Wohlleben „The Hidden Life of Trees“; Diana Beresford Kroeger „To Speak for the Trees“; Hermann Hesse „About Trees“; Manoel Penna “Street Tress”; Affonso Romano Sant’Anna “Arboreal Love”; Miona Petrović “Message to the Trees”; material from internet 
• Music: Ivana Stefanović
• Electronic: Dragan Mitrić 
• Voices: Ivana Milenović Popović, Ivan Nikolić, Neša Paripović, Miona Petrović, Milan Popović, Vid Popović, Aleksandar Vasiljević, Andrija Vasiljević, Zoran Vasiljević 
• Vocals: Ljubica Damčević 
• Sound design: Zoran Jerković 
• Video, projections, mapping: Jelena Rubil 
• Costume: Ivana Samolov 
• Object doll: Snežana Arnautović 
• Light design: Milomir Dimitrijević, Radovan Samolov
• Organisation and Production: Nataša Novaković, Milica Petrović 
• Director’s assistants: Rumena Šopova, Ana Bošković 
• Technical Production: Milomir Dimitrijević, Radovan Samolov 
• Technical support: Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade 
• Text recording and technical support: Zoran Vasiljević 
• Translation from Portuguese: Jovan Tatić and Jadranka Andjelić 
• Finance: Dragana Živanović
• Marketing: Ivana Milenović Popović 
• PR: Tanja Rapp 
• Social Networks: Aleksandra Atanacković 
• IT support: Miloš Jovanov (Green Friends) 
• Photography: Djordje Tomić 
• Graphic design: škart Film

Realised in collaboration with: Belgrade Dance Institute

Supported by: ITAC – Climate Impact, Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, International Relief Fund of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe Institute, City of Belgrade – Secretary for Culture

How to book?

This performance has free access. No pre-booking needed.

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: 2 250 RSD (around 19€)

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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

Address: Glavna 32, Belgrade 11080 | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian and Slovenian with English subtitles

Haris Pasovic, a world-renowned director, whose glittering achievements have been staged in Belgrade theatres, presents August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie at the Madleninum.

Set in contemporary Slovenia, Julie is the daughter of a Slovenian mogul who is no more an aristocrat, but her ancestors were. At the same time, Jean, her servant who comes from Serbia, is a Gastarbeiter (guest worker) who earns a living at her father’s estate. The play explores the class and gender dynamics between the two.

Just like in the play, the story happens during the nightly celebration where alcohol, sleeplessness and a party atmosphere lead to acts of passion between the main two characters, ultimately to their regrets. This concept gives Pasovic a possibility to spotlight the economic inequality that exists between the EU and non-EU citizens.

Sara Dirnbek, who plays Julie, and Mina Pavlica, who plays Jean, bring Miss Julie to life on stage, alongside a sterling ensemble cast, as a contemporary up to date love story.

“Tens of thousands of young Balkans go to the EU for economic reasons and do the hardest physical work there. They are becoming a new social class, the lowest in the European social hierarchy.” 

– Haris Pasovic

Duration: 90 min

Genre: Theatre 

Price: 1400-1700 RSD (12-15€)

Credits:

• Adaptation and Directing: Haris Pasovic
• Assisted by: Stefan Gajic, Katarina Jovanovic
• Dramaturgy: Jelena Paligoric Sinkevic
• Set Design: Aleksandar Denic
• Assisted by: Danilo Mladjenovic
• Costume Design: Irma Saje and Vanja Ciraj Dzudza
• Assisted by: Visnja Zilic
• Composer: Marko Grubic
• Choreographer: Igor Pastor
• Light Design: Srdjan Jovanovic
• Sound Design: Dusan Arsikin
• Stage Manager: Goran Mladenovic
• Organiser: Vlastimir Repic
• Performed by: Sara Dirnbek, Strahinja Blazic, Mina Pavlica, Katarina Bradonjic, Nikola Knezevic, Jovan Veljkovic, Filip Stankovski,Sofija Kovacevicand Ksenija Repic

How to book?

Tickets will be available for purchase through Bitef’s website and Madlenianum website here in September.