TIRANA, July 21 – Spain’s Tribuene theatre company will close the Butrint Theatre Festival with “The Blood Wedding” tragedy in a comeback to Albania’s only international theatre festival after their debut performance three years ago.
“This is a timeless performance, geographically non-contextualized, with a courageous reading that gives the work a new mythological and universal spirit,” the Spanish embassy said in a statement.
Three years ago, Madrid’s Tribuene Theatre performed “The House of Bernarda Alba” also written by Spanish playwright, Federico Garcia Lorca, a piece which in this year’s edition was staged by Bulgaria’s Sofia Theatre Vuzrajdane.
“Blood Wedding,” Lorca’s play about a family battle threatening a young bride, is directed by Irina Kouberskaya and will be staged on Friday, July 22 at 21:30.
Only two foreign troupes from Spain and Bulgaria were invited in this year’s Butrint international theatre festival which held its 14th edition amid a sharp cut in financial support.
The four-day festival staged at the Roman amphitheater of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Butrint, in the southernmost Albanian district of Saranda, opened on July 19 with an Albania piece, the “Made in Albania” drama written by Stefan à‡apaliku and directed by Altin Basha.
The festival’s second night on July 20 also brought on stage Greece’s Philharmonic Society of Corfu in a concert conducted by Alkis Baltas bringing together 60 musicians.
