The regional tour on the Western Balkans SEVEN started with the performance in Macedonia 2 November 2013 at the theatre of Youth Cultural Centre in Skopje with an estimation of 250 people in the audience. The reading was a cooperation between Hedda Produktion AB, local partner organization Children’s Theatre Center (CTC), the Embassy of Sweden in Macedonia, Civil Rights Defenders and the Swedish Institute.

Project leader Besfort Idrizi, Children’s Theater Center, says: “The audience was surprised by the way how the story reflected on them only by reading/hearing it, without any physical action or any other effect on stage. Some of them were even moved to tears by the story of Seven and by the personal stories that some of the readers shared with the audience at the end of the show. Everyone was asking for more projects like this and for other performance of Seven in Skopje and in other cities around the Macedonia.”

To promote the event, the local partner organization, Children’s Theater Center, produced a promo animation video showing the date, venue and the multi-ethnical character of the project. All the main local and national TV stations, web portals, daily news, magazines and radio stations covered SEVEN. Over 30 different press local and national medias of all the languages that are spoken in Macedonia have covered the SEVEN. Several photographers and web portal reporters were covering the opening night.

Ensemble:

Suzana Goceva – Victim of domestic violence, professor and author of the book “Insomnia”
Ramadan Ramadani – Imam, journalist and opinionist
Adelina Marku – Activist
Esma Redzepova – World known pop singer “Queen of Romani music”
Dragana Miloshevska – Theater Director
Erdem Ahmet – Journalist
Krste S. Dzidrov – Set designer and architect

For more information about Seven in Macedonia contact local project leader Besfort Idrizi.