The Kosovo International Theater Festival, which was run in Prishtina Nov. 2 - Nov. 8 of this year, included various plays from various countries such as Belgium, Slovenia, Ukraine, Austria, Macedonia, Italy, and Kosovo. The theme of this first edition of the Festival consisted of theatrical shows based on the art of singing and generally on diverse musical forms.

The Director of the show, "Tapani Vo Nokta", Martin Kocovski, explained that the idea came from the plawright known as Brecht, but performed in a different form. The play is inspired by the human disinterest for personal freedom, love semiotics and theatre anthropology. The play puts an accent on these three levels with a specific theatre language, which offers a positive electricity of genres, perfectly coordinated actor interaction and multilayer symbolic grammar. The plot takes place just after the First World War, and the play simplifies the meaning of individual freedom until the current time and events in the Balkans and Europe.

The coordinator of the International Theater Festival in Kosovo, Kushtrim Hoxha, was satisfied with the course of this event of the first edition. "Generally we are satisfied with the start of the festival. We have not had any problems, although there is always going to be something new when a man least expects it or when a man expects more," said Hoxha.

Consequently, structured around songs, music and the rituals, the first edition of Kosovo International Theatre Festival comes with the aspiration to be a new creative presentation and experience in observing, exploiting and genuinely striving within the creative process of the stage, which by avoiding clichés and uniformity and based on the contact and the natural relation of the theatrical art with other arts and media, testifies to the power, energy, elegance, flexibility and skill of the stage to regenerate itself. Indeed, singing, music and rituals are the identification and the meeting point of the theater with itself.