Theatre
The National Theatre in Tirana risks being demolished, despite being an architectural gem with a remarkable historical value. The government wants to replace it with a huge shiny building, whose construction is exposed to speculation and lack of transparency.
Movie theatres in Romania are often empty when they show New Wave films: very few people in the country watch the Romanian films that are popular abroad – while audiences in the other European countries have not even heard of the Romanian films that have the highest success in the country.
When elections are not free and fair, they can turn into a sort of theatre play or TV fiction, where everyone plays a given role and the outcome is already set from the beginning. That's what happened in Azerbaijan last week, and what could happen in Turkey next June.
