Jeton Neziraj “Yue Medlin Yue”, Kosovo

Fri, 07.09.2012, 20h, HKD

Language: various, Croatian subtitles

 

About “Yue Medlin Yue”

“Yue Medlin Yue” is the newest play by the Kosovar playwright Jeton Neziraj. In the central focus of this musical tragicomedy of the absurd is a Roma family, which was forcedly expelled from Germany to Kosovo. Found in a new reality, this family will have to face the challenges of the recently newborn state. A Roma girl, Medlin, one day falls in a hole opened by a construction company. And while the girl in coma fights for her life, her father, striving to pursue justice, faces bureaucratic officers, businessmen, policemen and embassy employees. This is a political drama about chaotic post-war Kosovo, but, before all, it is a drama about unwanted Roma in Europe. Away from those common stereotypes about Roma, away from that exoticism which usually accompanies Roma topics, “Yue Medlin Yue” is an intelligent drama that excellently reviews the emotional process that thousands of Roma people from Europe undergo, yielding to violent processes of repatriation.

“Yue Medlin Yue” is an intelligent drama that excellently illustrates the emotional state of thousands of Roma people from Europe.

About the company:

Qendra Multimedia, based in Pristina, Kosovo, is a cultural production company, working in the field of arts and culture since 2002. Qendra produces and co-produces cultural activities for all ages, locally and internationally. Its main focus is contemporary theatre and dramaturgy.

 

JETON NEZIRAJ, author

Jeton Neziraj, former Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Kosovo, is a playwright from Kosovo. He has written over 15 plays which have been staged and performed in Europe and in the USA, as well as been translated and published in many other languages. Neziraj is also the author of many articles about theatre, published in local and international theatre magazines and journals. http://www.jetonneziraj.com/

 

BLERTA RRUSTEMI – NEZIRAJ, director

Blerta studied Psychology at the University Lumiere Lyon 2, France, and is currently finishing her degree at the Theatre Directing department, University of Pristina. She has been directing plays for Dodona Theatre and for Qendra Multimedia and was involved in many local and international theatre projects. She is running the “Forum Theatre” project in Kosovo.

 

 

credits:

Produced by Qendra Multimedia, Pristina

Author: Jeton Neziraj

Director: Blerta Rrustemi

Stage and light design: Nico de Rooij, Lighting technician: Skender Latifi

Sound and music composer: Gabriele Marangoni

Musician: Susanna Tognella

Costume designer: Dorothy Barnes, Amber Givens (assistant)

Choreography: Gjergj Prevazi

Actors: Adrian Morina, Anisa Ismaili, Fisnik Sykaj, Kujtim Paçaku, Fitore Broqi, Bajram Kinolli

Video: Yll Citaku & Koperativa

Stage manager: Adelina Berisha

Translator: Qerim Ondozi