After the peculiar, and peculiarly quelled (a quiet Christmas season in the malls) political unrest in the last country, the next country appears to be a similar situation. Theatres appear to be cancelling performances now--which complicates the larger plan of inexpensive coffee and theatre that was the primary reason for setting forth into the Balkans.
Even with the Russian revolution, the Mariinski performances went ahead until the evening beforehand. The audience just went home instead of going to the bars afterward. (Source: Solzhenietsen's Red Wheel novels.)
The actors of ancient Greece passed freely between warring city-states. At university, they claimed that this was a sign of respect for the arts. Thinking of it now, the possibility strikes me that they just didn't want to waste the ammunition.