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Every Monday with the Chikas of Pristina

Every Monday with the Chikas of Pristina

During the tour in Albania with the comedy "Every Monday", Burbuqe Berisha expresses her attitudes towards the theater. The director is closing the project for a TV series, similar to "Sex and the City" and asserts that life with problems and trauma in Kosovo cannot hinder the dialogue with the female world.

"Relax" through the theater. This is the means and the goal for a person to soften, relax, lighten up, liberate, have fun. It is the point of view of Burbuqe Berisha, who lives one season in the theater and the next in the cinema.

The director from Pristina with the comedy "Every Monday" closed the theater tour in Albania yesterday, at the "Petro Marko" theater in Vlora. In fact, it is the second work that in a few days presents in Albania the theatrical production that private companies do today in Kosovo. A field that flourished and matured in four years. One of these companies is "Oda" which, although in front of a modest audience in Albania's stages, will be remembered as the first Kosovar company that had a tour in three cities of the motherland thanks to the "Summer of the Adriatic" Festival. .

At the beginning with the "Illyrian-Roman War" written by the founder of "Oda" Lirak Çelaj, he brought to the National Theater in Tirana a grotesque treatment of modern Albanian-Kosovar patriotisms and nationalisms, and then with the comedy "Every Monday" by Sara Bogattit, the everyday world of chikas in Prishtina slang.


For Burbuqe Berisha, the issue in this dramaturgical work is the point of view of the text. She is one of those directors who always "makes" the dramaturgy both in the cinematography and in the theater with a little irony. We remember "Kosova 9/11", a short film about the meaning that a small people gives to the terrorist attack on America, awarded the best film at the Tirana International Festival (TIFF).

According to the director, dialect and irony are two elements that make this theatrical work provocative and relaxing. "Our life is very full of problems, but I see theater as a means of relaxation, while I tend to see problems from an ironic angle."

It's not a new discussion, so Bogatti's comedy doesn't require engaging attention. However, while the woman is expected to put some order in the chaos of the sentimental world between the opposite sexes, a "not happy" ending comes: the travesty of the sexes as a "consequence" of circumstances and failure for a little human happiness.

"Every Saturday" served for Berisha as a warm-up and as a prologue for a longer conversation with the female world. She has in her hands the project for a television series that, according to her, promises a local version of the popular American series "Sex and the City".

Wouldn't it be an open declaration of a certain vanity of the stage elite in Kosovo when the country is facing problems and trauma? According to Berisha, it is never too early to enter into dialogue with the female world in Kosovo. Even so, it's better to be early than late.