Dodona Theatre
type: Item
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Kosovo
City: Pristina
Wikipedia page: Theatres_in_Pristina#Dodona_Theatre
Address: M57C+R59, Afrim Loxha
GPS: Point(21.1706 42.6646)
opening date: 1986-11-12T00:00:00Z
Note: Established in the mid-eighties with 167 seats in total, the Dodona Puppet Theatre catered to the youth cultural needs. Two well-known theatre directors Borislav Mrkšić and Melihate Qena created Dodona’s brilliant children’s theatre cast. In the early ‘90s, expelled from the People’s Province Theatre and University of Pristina, the troupe of Albanian actors and students of the Acting Department moved their rehearsals to Dodona Puppet Theatre. During this decade, Dodona worked in two shifts: in the morning, she staged children’s plays while in the evening, dramas and comedies for adults. Due to budget cuts, the production of plays was poor, but the audiences still went because Dodona was one of the few places of cultural expression for Albanians in that period.