Established in the mid-eighties with 167 seats in total, the Dodona Puppet Theatre catered to the youth cultural needs. Two well-known theatre directors Borislav Mrkšić and Melihate Qena created Dodona’s brilliant children’s theatre cast. In the early ‘90s, expelled from the People’s Province Theatre and University of Pristina, the troupe of Albanian actors and students of the Acting Department moved their rehearsals to Dodona Puppet Theatre. During this decade, Dodona worked in two shifts: in the morning, it staged children’s plays while, in the evening, dramas and comedies for adults. Due to budget cuts, the production of plays was poor, but the audiences still went because Dodona was one of the few places of cultural expression for Albanians in that period.