Negotiating Peace

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Production team

Written by: Jeton Neziraj
Directed by: Blerta Neziraj
Actors: Melihate Qena, Shkumbin Istrefi, Ema Andrea, Dukagjin Podrimaj, Ejla Bavcic, Martin Koiv, Orest Pastukh
Stage design: Agata Skwarczyńska
Costume Designer Blagoj Micevski
Choreography Gjergj Prevazi
Dramaturg: Mina Milošević
Video Besim Ugzmajli
Lighting design: Yann Perregaux, Agata Skwarczyńska
Assistant director: Sovran Nrecaj
Translated by: Suzana Vuljevic
Art director: Aurela Kadriu
Development & Fundraising Support: Sven Skoric
Tour manager: Dejan Jovanović
International Outreach: Maud Dinand
PR & Communication: Mobius Industries
Sound: Bujar Bekteshi
Technical coordinator: Lulzim Rexha
Production assistants: Flaka Rrustemi & Verona Koxha

Qendra Multimedia Production

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ODA Theater

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Negotiating Peace is a complex diplomatic challenge after military conflicts. In some cases, peace agreements are made; in others, complete peace is never reached or simply remains an arrangement on paper. Multiple wars and conflicts raise multi-layered questions and leave behind ambiguities, which makes peace difficult. Looking at peace negotiations including Dayton peace agreement, those in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, the still-unresolved talks between Kosovo and Serbia, and anticipating the conclusion of the war between Russia and Ukraine, Kosovo’s Qendra Multimedia have brought together a pan European ensemble to create Negotiating Peace. This new production has been created with artists and theatre groups from Ukraine, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Italy, Czechia, Albania, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland and Estonia. Inspired by Richard Holbrooke’s To End a War and Kadare’s The General of the Dead Army, NEGOTIATING PEACE tries to confront the audience with the backgrounds, challenges, fears and hope that accompany the reaching of a peace agreement and discusses important issues: Who has the power and legitimacy to negotiate peace? Do people truly reconcile after signing a peace accord? And finally: Can collective forgiveness ever occur, or is forgiveness an individual act?

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