One of the world’s most influential playwrights, William Shakespeare, will come for the first time on the stage of the Metropol Theatre during this December to present a timeless masterpiece – the “Twelfth Night” .
The events of this comedy, as bestowed by most scholars, develop in Illyria (the early days of today’s Albania) and it is believed that the play was written around 1601. In the kingdom of Illyria, a nobleman named Orsino walks around listening to music because he doesn’t possess Olivia’s love, a beautiful girl he cannot have because she is mourning her dead brother and does not accept any marriage proposal.
Meanwhile, in the sea, a terrible storm has caused the sinking of a ship … this starting event is enough to skillfully combine many lively characters in situations of unrequited love, heart-break, but also the joy that derive from experiencing them in former Illyria. The Metropol Theater and American director Justin Anderson will bring the work to another time period – that of Albania in the 1800s, the time of Lord Byron, Ali Pasha and Marubi photographers, combining authentic elements of the time and place where the events happened through music and costumes.
