Kosovo National Theatre with record outlook

Since years past, the number of performances was smaller in size at the National Theatre of Kosovo, a minor collapse has been marked in the past two years.

In 2015, neither fewer nor more of the 7 premiere performances at the National Theatre were shown in 2016, a festival resurrection has taken place, giving them numerous premieres, and plus this vision is at a very good level, along with the previous years.

The director of the National Theatre, Agim Sopi, who points out that from 2016, visibility has increased ninefold, exceeding 2,000 and 900 viewers to 21 thousand viewers.

Our “Public has a global dimension, we're not a blinder public of Europe, a province, because it's the time of global communication, it's the time of the internet and people have information, the Pristina seer has had information as much as Paris, it's hard to lie and cheat, it can't close to that shell of some kind of patriarchal folklore and feel it's self-intensed within that shell, but it requires what the European public wants, so we think we've had an extraordinary success, we've inherited the theater with a 2 thousand viewers for a year after the calendar, and something like 21 thousand viewers, about 9000 viewers, but it's a lot of what's been doing in the years, it's going down there's a lot.

He has also added that already, along with TKK staff, they have identified what the public needs to be served as a value which it claims the public consumes. In this kind of study of the public, Sopi has also introduced some innovations, such as theatrical language, modern expression, and original texts, which, according to Sopi, have influenced the outcome.

One of Kosovo actors, Agron Shala, who has recently implemented the <x0 display. The man who was missing”, and since years ago is part of theatre performances, claims an increase in predictability, saying the halls are being filled recently.

Shala: The halls are filling up, it hasn't happened before.

With the taking of the new body here in the theater, the engagement of many other actors, visibility is on the rise, even it's too big, why do I say that? I proved this, at the same time I had a show on the little stage, “The windowless house”, also occurred in other shows on the big stage for one night. I'm witnessing what the two halls have been full, it hasn't happened before”, he stressed.

And as for the situation in acting, he says this country is overwhelmed, there is a lack of perspective, degraded culture, in addition to the culture that is making explosions in this direction by escaping politics.

This country is overwhelmed, we're overwhelmed, there's no dilemma, each one of us knows that, even young children have already realized that there's a chagrin here, a lack of perspective, a lack of respect, a drowning of hope that's so painful. I don't even want to think about not studying what you really feel inside... But let them know that a very difficult road is especially in Kosovo. I think it's degraded, culture is generally destroyed in us, it's degraded, like in the film sector, as in general, because of the bad policies that have happened... Culture has been blasting in this direction, running away from these policies, getting them out of the hands of politics, management in general have also caused explosions at different festivals, and especially the film, which has participated in performances that have received awards at very serious” festivals, he said.

Ismet Azemi, also an actor by profession but also chairman of the Kosovo National Theatre Union Association, has told Kosovo Press that the theatre is the highest cultural institution in each country, for which special care is needed to rise to the highest level.

As for theatre visibility in recent years, Azem has not disputed such a reality, that visibility is on the rise, and public communication with the scene is very high -- at least the last two years.

The number of art lovers, of people who feel the need to eat the stage, of art, of beauty, I see the day-to-day rise, because that makes me realize that the mass, the people of this country, the people of this country as if they need it even though it's known that we've come out of very difficult circumstances earlier. This people, these people, as if they've returned to the truth and want to complete their being, to balance the spirit world with that intellectual and material world, so I see that day-to-day viewing only increases, it's not just numbers, it's people who communicate with the scene, with artists, with works that are served to communicate”, he said.

The National Theatre in Pristina, founded in 1946, originally in Prizren, has reached nearly 73 years in public service, marking a long period of considerable contribution, which in 2018 is expected to mark huge proportions in the overall rise, increasing the number of performances, actors, etc.