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'This is still taboo': queer teens and their families embrace gay comedy in Serbia

by Natasha Tripney

Audiences are finding sharp resonance and emotional comfort in Patrik Lazić's moving and funny play Our Son, about topics still sensitive in the Balkans The hurling of a salad bowl to the floor might not sound like the most dramatic of moments, but it sent a ripple of recognition through the audience at the National theatre in Pirot, south-eastern Serbia, on a mid-February evening. The salad bowl incident took pl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:48am on March 5, 2024