THE REPUBLIC OF BAKLAVA: The Utopian Naiveté
By: Lamija MilišićOn the fourth day of the 62nd edition of the International Theater Festival MESS, the audience at the Sarajevo National Theater had the opportunity to see “The Republic of Baklava”. This was the first time that this play was performed abroad. The director Anestis Azas made an appearance at the 59th MESS as co-director of the play “Clean City” that tackled a similar topic of crossing or relativizing state/national borders and the implications of this act when putting value on an individual. At the beginning of the...
TEA CEREMONY: Pain resulting from negligence
BY: Lamija MilišićThe third day of the 62nd International Theater Festival MESS was marked by the performance titled “Tea Ceremony” by the theater troupe SRSLY Yours. Gathering artists from Greece, Cyprus, Sweden, Germany and Switzerland, the troupe and the director Achim Wieland tackle different sociopolitical topics. At this year’s edition of MESS, they will present us with yet another performance titled “Picture Perfect”. “Tea Ceremony” is a 60-minute long anguish over negligent violence, anguish over the pain of the world to...
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV: A Revolutionary is a Doomed Man
By: Lamija MilišićWatching a scene of violence onstage very often implies feeling a sense of power due to the mere fact that we have then and only then been able to endure the look of evil. Watching a scene of violence onstage very often implies making oneself, or recognizing oneself, as a highly perceptive, uninvolved dilettante. The risk of the sterility of boundaries of that perceptivity is something we become aware of only if the non-theatrical immediate present itself is extreme and invasive, i.e. if we perceive the theater as...
„WOYCZEK“ AWARDED THE AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE
Based on the MESS Festival Audience votes (9.39), the Golden Laurel Wreath – the Audience Award was awarded to “Voyczek”, directed by Attila Vidnyánszky Jr. and produced by Nemzeti Színház Nonprofit Zrt from Hungary. As part of the Festival’s main programme, the audience had the opportunity to see 14 performances from 12 different countries, with the participation of 300 artists.Earlier today, the jury announced the laureates of the 62nd Edition of MESS Festival. The Grand Prix, The Golden Laurel Wreath for Best Performance overall...
THE GRAND-PRIX OF THE 62ND MESS AWARDED TO “ANNA KARENINA”
The Festival’s jury composed of professor, author and editor Andrea Lešić-Thomas, PhD (Bosnia and Herzegovina), theater and film director Fator Berisha (Kosovo) and artistic director, theater director and dramaturge Giacomo Pedini (Italy) announced the laureates of the 62nd edition of the International Theater Festival MESS at the award ceremony held at the Sarajevo National Theater. Grand Prix – “The Golden Laurel Wreath for the best theater performance overall”“Anna Karenina”, Drama Studio “Prazan Prostor” and the Royal Theater...
WELCOME TO A BETTER PLANET EARTH – WELCOME TO THE 62ND MESS!
„Theaters are once again the common places of gathering. There are so many things that we can learn in the theater. It is not a place that offers false hopes to people, as politicians world-wide seem to be in the habit of doing.“ Those were the introductory words with which the director of the International Theater Festival MESS, Nihad Kreševljaković, greeted the audience at the opening ceremony of the 62nd edition of the MESS festival taking place at the Sarajevo National Theater. For the 62nd time, Sarajevo is to be the theater...
TICKETS FOR THE 62nd MESS AVAILABLE AS OF TODAY
Tickets for this year’s edition of the MESS Festival are available as of 20th September 2022. This year, the Festival’s program features 14 high-quality productions from 12 different countries, thus making the City of Sarajevo host to more than 250 international artists. Previous editions of the Festival brought several renowned European and international theater artists to Sarajevo and other BH cities and presented numerous young theater artists who are of particular interest to the most important festivals.“As of last year, the...
PREMIJERA PREDSTAVE “SARAJEVO FEELING” 16. DECEMBRA NA SCENI SARTR-A
U četvrtak, 16. decembra, s početkom u 20:00, u Sarajevskom ratnom teatru, premijerno će biti izvedena predstava “Sarajevo Feeling”. Tekst Almira Bašovića na scenu SARTR-a postavlja Thomas Steyaert, u kreaciji i izvedbi Snežane Bogićević, Maje Salkić, Jasenka Pašića, Davora Sabe, Adnana Krese, Amara Selimovića, Igora Skvarice, Kemala Rizvanovića, Lidije Kordić, Ivone Baković i Hane Zrno. Dramaturgiju predstave potpisuje Nejra Babić, kostimografiju Lejla Hodžić, scenografiju Monika Močević, a dizajn postera Dragomir Križić.Drama...
MINI MESS BEGINS ON SATURDAY MUCH TO THE YOUNGEST AUDIENCE’S DELIGHT
Pod okriljem Internacionalnog teatarskog festivala MESS, program za najmlađe ljubitelje teatra, Mali MESS, počinje u subotu, 02.oktobra, a sve predstave će biti odigrane u Pozorištu mladih Sarajevo. Mali MESS je i ove godine besplatan za sve mališane. Važno je naglasiti da je zbog trenutne epidemiološke situacije, broj besplatnih ulaznica ograničen, a mogu se preuzeti svaki radni dan od 10 do 18 sati u prostorijama MESS-a na adresi Maršala Tita 54/I. Direkcija apeluje na roditelje i mališane da tokom predstava obavezno nose maske...
THE PROGRAMME OF THE 61ST MESS FESTIVAL PUBLISHED – TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM 25TH SEPTEMBER
Program 61. Internacionalnog teatarskog festivala MESS od danas je dostupan na zvaničnoj Internet stranici www.mess.ba, a karte će se moći ćete kupiti putem platforme www.kupikartu.ba od 25. septembra. Pod generalnim pokroviteljstvom kompanije Visa od 01. do 07. oktobra na 61. MESS-u će se predstaviti devet produkcija iz Irske, Francuske, Njemačke, Ruande, Srbije, Hrvatske i Bosne i Hercegovine.„Prioritet nam je očuvanje zdravlja publike i učesnika, zbog čega ćemo se i mi kao organizatori striktno pridržavati svih aktuelnih...