Dr Clare Finburgh, Goldsmiths University, in conversation with Dijana Milosevic

Dr Clare Finburgh, Reader in Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, interviews Dijana Milosevic, member of the Ariadne network, director and founder of Dah Teater, Serbia. This was a wide-ranging interview that gave Dijana the opportunity to talk about the founding of Dah, whilst also talking about the process of making art under political strictures, before moving on to where Dijana sees her role as theatre-maker in contemporary Serbia.

Clare Finburgh came to Theatre Studies through Modern Languages, having been inspired by playwrights like Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet and Bertolt Brecht. She has been published widely on modern and contemporary European theatre and performance, with her books including Jean Genet (2012), Contemporary French Theatre and Performance (2011), and Jean Genet: Performance and Politics(2006). She has written widely on French and francophone playwrights and directors including Kateb Yacine, Valère Novarina, Noêlle Renaude, François Tanguy and Michel Vinaver. Clare is currently leading an AHRC-funded team of researchers and artists who are investigating the legacy in contemporary performance of the Situationist International, a group of radical artists and activists from the 1950s and 1960s, called Reviewing Spectacle. Other recent research has reflected two of the most pressing political and social issues of the modern world: the ecological crisis, and global conflict.