Mira Trailović

BELGRADE - Celebrated Belgian stage director Jan Fabre on Thursday received the Bitef Festival's Mira Trailovic Grand Prix and the 40th Politika Best Director Award for the 24-hour play Mount Olympus - To Glorify the Cult of Tragedy.

BELGRADE - Wolfram Lotz's the Ridiculous Darkness, directed by the Czech Republic's Dusan David Parízek and produced by Burgtheater Vienna, has been named the best play of the 50th Belgrade International Theatre Festival - Bitef.

The Mira Trailovic Grand Prix was handed out to Parizek by an international jury.

Jovan Ćirilov died in age 84 Bard of our Culture is Gone

Jovan Ćirilov, former Director of Yugoslavian theatre, founder and art director of Bitef theatre died two days ago in Belgrade, after a long period of illness.

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Renowned theatrologist Jovan Ćirilov passes away

BELGRADE -- Serbian theatrologist Jovan Ćirilov died aged 84 in Belgrade on Sunday, the Yugoslav Drama Theater (JDP) said in a statement.

Ćirilov was art director and selector of the Bitef theater festival since its establishment in 1967 and long-term director of the JDP.

BELGRADE - The 48th Bitef International Theatre Festival was opened late Saturday at Belgrade's Dom Omladine by Croatian director Borut Separovic, the winner of last year's special prize for the play 55+, performed by the Zagreb-based Montazstoj company.

The main focus at the 48th Belgrade International Theatre Festival, BITEF, between September 20 and 30, will be on the hundredth anniversary of the start of the First World War.

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