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Roma Painters and Theatre |
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Shaban Butic is regarded as the most prominent of the visual artists among Kosovo Roma. Since the 1970s, he has had many shows at galleries in Yugoslavia. Besides him, there were many naive Roma painters in Kosovo.
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Since 1945, the Roma theatre in Yugoslavia has had a successful history as a mediator of Roma culture. Roma authors write plays and Roma directors adapt plays from world literature. Particularly well known was the Roma theatre "Pralipe" from Macedonia. In the end, three amateur theatres existed in Kosovo - in Gnijlan, Pristina and Prizren. Nezip Menekse and the playwright Kujtim Pacaku were directors. In 1997, Azir Jasari founded a Roma youth theatre in Pristina. This theatre produced four plays and won a prize at the heatre festival in Gnjilan, in which ensembles from Turkey, Serbia and Albania participated. On tours abroad, productions like those by Kujtim Pacaku were very well received by the audiences. Young Roma like Ahmet Ibrahim, who studies theatre directing in Moscow, are going to continue the culture of the Roma theatre. |
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