SKOPJE (SEEcult.org) - The international festival Youth Open Theatre began on September 18 in Skopje with Montenegrin National Theatre’s play Parocheal Wedding, Brecht’s play directed by Edward Miller, and through Septemebr 27 will present projects from Belgium, Czech, Slovenia, Russia, Italy, Switzerland, Serbia and Germany, selected by renowned theatre producer and director of the Ex-Ponto festival in Ljubljana Damir Domitrovic Kos. The 33rd MOT also will present several Macedonian plays, selected by Visar Viska.

The festival is opened in presence of Macedonian minister for culture Elizabeta Kanceska Milevska, as well as Montenegrin minister Branislav Micunovic, former director of national theatre in Podgorica.

The 33 MOT is held under the motto “My Small World”, and will be closed with performance “Yes, Water Burns Too” within the event “White Night” at square “Macedonia” on September 27.

According to the organizers, the Youth Cultural Centre in Skopje, focus of this year’s festival is on revolutionary and daring aesthetics that are the feature of modern theatre.

In program terms, the topic brings theatre production that conceptually works on rediscovering the man’s fundamental emotions, phobias, the intimacy…

New and brave viewings of all these themes manage to give a different look at these notions in a completely new and unexpected way, making them untouchable, said the organizers.

Among the foreign productions is “Emigrants’ Song” by the Czech Farm in the Cave, which is the winner of numerous theatre awards, mostly in Britain.

Needcompany from Belgium will perform a pop opera The Ballad of Ricky and Ronny, Via Negativa from Slovenia - Viva Verdi, and Akhe Theater from Russia Mr. Carmen.

Koreja Theater from Italy will perform The Passion of the Trojan Women, Plasma from Switzerland will present play Random, and Culturmobil from Serbia will present Carnin poj, a theatre documentary on Roma people in today Europe, which was premiered at this year's Belgrade Summer Festival (BELEF).

Pyronautic Processing from Germany will close the festival with spectacle And Water Does Burn at the Macedonia Square.

Beside international competition program, and national selection, the MOT also will include workshops and lectures on new theatre tendencies.

The winner of the last year’s MOT was In Palermo, directed by Emma Dante of Italian theatre company Sud Costa Occidentale.