Western Europe Meets Eastern Europe: Yasmina Reza’s Bella Figura in Zagreb, Croatia

HowlRound: French playwright Yasmina Reza is no stranger to Croatian audiences, which already had the privilege of seeing Conversations After a Burial (Osijek), Life x 3 (at Mala scena inZagreb), God of Carnage (Theatre Rugantino, Zagreb), Art ( at Theatre Aplauz in Zagreb), and finally Bella Figura, originally written for the Schaubühne ensemble and directed and translated by Thomas Ostermeier (with co-translator Florian Borchmeyer). The Croatian production of Bella Figura, directed by Boris Liješević and performed by the Croatian National Theatre (CNT) in Zagreb, came hot on the heels of the Berlin production.