TIRANA, Oct. 22 – Theater troupes from Albania, Kosovo, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Turkey, Greece and Croatia will perform in the 17th edition of the traditional Skampa international theatre festival held annually in the city of Elbasan, central Albania.
The local Skampa Theatre will open the festival with the “Last Dance” piece directed by Erand Sojli on Oct. 25. The festival which will also feature performances in improvised open-air stages will continue for six consecutive nights until October 30 under the slogan “Dialogue” .
Andonis Filipi, the festival’s director, describes the event as an intercultural crossroads bringing together aspects of cultural diversity.
“The context of this festival as a theatre in continuous search of new contemporary forms through the diversity of its alternatives also appeals for an increase in audience where everybody can identify themselves,” says Filipi.
The Skampa festival is one the biggest international theatre events in Albania established as a natural need for Albanian theatre on the road to European integration. Its aim is to present the main trends in Albania and international stage practice and create a space for intercultural dialogue. The festival has its face, its profile as a competition of facing values, to exchange experience, ideas and alternatives in the field of theatre. More than a hundred of premieres have been staged in the festival’s previous 16 editions.
