TIRANA, Jan. 17 – Ferdinand Hysi’s drama Oedipus’ Complex returned this week with its theatre adaptation titled The King is Dead, Long Live the King. Directed by Elma Doresi and starring Sokol Angjeli and Bujar Asqeriu, the play is brought on stage daily at seven pm until Jan. 21.
In the play, a junior director inherits the work position of a senior director, causing an internal battle between the old and the new that brings corruption, immorality and the bureaucracy of our institutions forward.
Doresi said she wants the play to focus on the human aspect of the consequences the play’s main themes treat.
“In addition to the main theme, which is the change of a system, of powers and their distinctive objectives, I have also tried to bring forward some secret aspects of people’s characters,” Doresi told local media.
The play was selected through a rubric called Nights of Albanian Drama Reading and its stage production sometimes seems as if it develops its plotline on the go.
“We are still going through a creative process, the actors have been performing day and night for about a week, so there’s plenty of stress, tiredness and emotions involved. But we are working on everything,” Doresi added.
The play’s plot starts with a three-envelope scroller. The senior director of a major institution is replaced with a junior, who is told by the former at the time of replacement that he has left him three envelopes, which the junior is to open one after the other when he sees he cannot handle the job position.
After that, corruption and servillism unveil parallelly in ways novel as much as similar to situations we all recognize.
