Majlinda Sinani Lulaj

Pristina | Date: March 19, 2024 | Duration: 103 minutes

During that period, it was more difficult to go… also due to the nature of the play. It wasn’t like we staged it in a cultural hall because it was a performance that, in a way, was unacceptable to the regime of that time. However, we performed it in, let’s say, halls, in schools that were improvised. In the physical education hall, if there was one. They were somewhat larger halls, if I can say so, or, for instance, when we were invited to villages, all over Kosovo, not just in Drenas.

 

It happened that we performed even on tractor trailers that had been set up and improvised in schoolyards for their performances, and we used them. Or in school corridors, where they were longer, desks were set up, and on top of the desks, so to speak, the play was performed by us, the actors, while the audience sat on seats, chairs, desks, or even stood. Children, teachers, and often even villagers from the surrounding houses would come to see a performance in Albanian.


Anita Susuri (Interviewer), Ana Morina (Camera)

Majlinda Sinani-Lulaj was born in 1974 in Pristina. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Department of Albanian Language and Literature. She was arrested for political reasons in 1996 and sentenced to two years in prison. She works at the Ombudsperson’s Office and lives with her family in Pristina.