The festival scheduled to be held from July 7 to 23 will for the first time see the participation of the first Russian troupe
TIRANA TIMES
TIRANA, June 27 – This year’s 11th edition of the Butrint international festival will bring on stage six troups competing at the ancient amphitheatre of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Butrint situated in the southernmost district of Saranda This is confirmed by the festival’s director Alfred Bualoti who told local media that the festival scheduled to be held from July 7 to 23 will for the first time see the participation of the first Russian troupe, that of Vera Komissarzhevskaya state theatre, which will stage Shakespeare’s “A summer night’s dream.”
Kosovo will be represented with Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, staged in cooperation with the Skopje Theater of Albanian Drama in Macedonia.
The festival’s third day, dedicated to the 200th birth anniversary of composer Frederic Chopin, will bring a theatrical troupe from Poland, Chopin’s birthplace: The piece with music by Chopin is scheduled to be staged at the Lekuras theatre.
Hungary and Romania are participating together with Romeo and Juliet, a musical staged by the Budapest and Bucharest operetta theaters.
Meanwhile, the National Theatre of Albania will be represented by Sophocles’ Electra which will be performed into two different versions.
Translated into Albanian by Laert Vasili and directed by renowned Andonis Filipi, the ancient Greek tragedy will bring together some of the best Albanian actors such as Luiza Xhuvani, Roza Anagnosti, Bujar Asqeriu etc
Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, the tragedy is based on the character of Electra, and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.
Some 2000 actors have performed on the festival’ stage during its previous ten editions.
