Podeli : One of the biggest names in contemporary theater, renowned director Milo Rau, will open this year’s Bitef Festival, which runs from September 25 to October 4 in Belgrade. Milo Rau (born in 1977 in Berne) is a writer, director and author. He is a former Artistic Director of NTGent (Belgium) and has been Artistic Director of the Wiener Festwochen since 2023.
Rau studied sociology as well as German and Romance language and literature in Paris, Berlin and Zurich under scholars including Pierre Bourdieu and Tzvetan Todorov. Critics have called him, among other things, the “most influential” (Die Zeit), “most distinguished” (Le Soir), “most interesting” (De Standaard), “most controversial” (La Repubblica), “most scandalous” (New York Times) and “most ambitious” (The Guardian) artist of our time. “So far, he has directed over 50 plays, films, books, and projects.
His theater productions have been showcased at all the major international festivals, including Bitef. His play Orestes in Mosul opened the 53rd Bitef, and at the 50th Bitef, he presented Compassion: The History of the Machine Gun. This year, his acclaimed production Antigone in the Amazon will be featured in the main program.
This will also mark his first personal appearance at Bitef,” said Nikita Milivojevic, the festival’s artistic director and co-curator. Dramaturge and festival co-curator Tijana Grumic added that Rau chose to set Antigone in the context of the Amazon for a speci.