18.10.2022

At the Dodona Theater in Prishtina, October 18, 2022, the premiere of the theatrical performance “Top Girls” directed by Shkurtë Aliu was presented. “Top Girls” came in a modern version, as a co-production of Artpolis – Art and Community Center with the Prishtina City Theater “Dodona”.

Marlena, a successful London businesswoman who last night celebrated her promotion at work, organized a dinner, her guests were not friends, family members or colleagues; however, they were women plucked from history, art, and mythology, women from medieval Europe, nineteenth-century England, and thirteenth-century Japan, as well as women who were the subjects of famous paintings and stories composed by men, of which showed how patriarchy has affected – and often destroyed – women’s lives throughout history.

Among them were Izabela, a writer, explorer and naturalist of the nineteenth century; Lady Nixho, a thirteenth-century concubine who became a wandering Buddhist nun; Greta, subject of a Flemish Renaissance painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder; Pope Joanna, a woman who disguised herself as a man and was appointed Pope in the Middle Ages; and Griselda, a character from the stories of Boccaccio and Chaucer, whose obedience to her husband in the face of terrible abuse made her a legend.

By: Caryl Churchill

Directed by: Short Aliu

Cast: Donike Ahmeti, Vjosë Tasholli, Molike Maxhuni, Zhaneta Xhemajli, Zana Berisha, Blerta Gubetini

Scenography: Bekim Korça

Costumes: Arbnor Brahimi

Music: Trimor Dhomi

Choreography: Robert Nuha

Lighting design: Skender Latifi

Stage technicians: Albert Gashi, Bedri Maloku, Fadil Bekteshi

Production assistant: Elira Lluka

Makeup artist: Flora Hasani, Myrvete Tahiri

“Top Girls” was organized within the project “HumanRightivism” implemented by the Community Development Fund – CDF, supported by the Embassy of Sweden in Prishtina.

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