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A famous American drama with great Albanian actors
The Long day's journey into night by Eugene O'Neill will be staged by the National Theatre of Tirana, Albania, within the 2015 NETA International Theatre Festival. Playwright Eugene O’Neill received the Nobel Prize for Literature and four Pulitzer awards, one of which was awarded posthumously for the Long day's journey into night play.
Two famous main actors – Artan Imami and Yllka Mujo, guided by one of Albania’s most renowned directors – Spiro Duni, bring in Bucharest a shattering drama about desperate people trapped in the claws of fate, the one fate that gives with one hand only to take with the other. A family caught in a tornado between love and hate, between acceptance and rejection, the bitter existence deprived of solutions, drowned in alcohol and drugs.
“With an apparently minimalist directing, believes Prof. Dr. Josif Papagjoni - an illustrious playwright and critic, Spiro Duni’s vision engages viewers through the in-depth exploration of human sadness and bitterness, analysing characters on deep psychological levels. It shows you suffering souls, shivering, terrified of death, failure, the impossible, boredom, anger, of all the rages, felt and buried for too long.“
The art of actors is majestic in this two-hour staging, without break. The words spoken on stage shine bright with logical, emotional, and rhythm meaning, “going up and down like a wave, revealing explosion and violence beyond peace, the extraordinary beneath the ordinary, and the brutal and turbulent alongside the austere and clean”.
A famous actor, Spiro Duni’s career began in the theatre of his childhood, Skampa of Elbasan, with two shows that received important awards. In the same theatre he staged Victor Eftimiu’s play “The Man who saw the Death” and also played the Vagabond. His name has been linked over the past years with the National Theatre of Tirana, where he received the “Award for the best show” in the “Kosova Infest International Theatre Festival”. He also collaborated with the National Theatre of Pristina, and staged “Beyond the bridge” at the Aleksander Moisio theatre in New York and “Visit of the old lady” at the Salem State Theatre in Massachusetts, USA.
The Long day's journey into night play is scheduled within the 2015 NETA International Theatre Festival in Bucharest on September 3rd in the “Studio” Hall of the National Theatre of Bucharest starting at 20:00.
