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Big hit of The Mistress Of The Inn

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The premier of The Mistress of the Inn at the Metropol Theater, by Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni was such a big success in Tirana that it will be again on stage for about 20 performances in a month. Credits for the success go to the director, Hervin ȵli, and the actors and actresses. A rich wardrobe helped the actors to bring out the best of each character, bringing a pleasant, lively, obsequious, cunning and seductive Mirandolina (Eni Jani), a manly knight, wild and disdainful toward women (Fatos Sela), a naive and coward Marquis of Forlipopolit (Genc Fuga) and so on. Comfortable in their roles, the actors performed a lively, rhythmic and involving play.
The mistress of the inn is maybe the more modern play of Goldoni. Being a master in building characters, Goldoni has painted Eve and Adam with contemporaneous colors.
Plot
What happens when a sworn woman-hater and a clever, independent lady meet under the same roof? It’s a competition of wits and charm! Throw in a couple of buffoonish noblemen and make the public rolling in the aisles with laughter at the sometimes ludicrous nature of love.
When Mirandolina’s father dies, she’s left alone to run the family inn. Though the odds are against her as a single woman running a business in 1753, Mirandolina’s guests are impressed by her hospitality and business sense. Her gentlemen guests are so impressed with her, in fact, that they tend to become infatuated with her! That is, until the Baron of Ripafratatta comes to stay at the inn. Not happy with the Baron’s boastful contempt for women, Mirandolina vows to teach him a lesson by making him fall in love with her. Will she succeed? What will be the outcome? Is there such a thing as true love, and can it prevail? A hilarious battle of the sexes not to be missed!

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