21:00h // THE VISIT (ALBANIA)
Date: 21.07.2024
Time: 21:00h
Location: Kino Lumbardhi
Production of Migjeni Theatre, Sardegna Teatro and supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Tirana
Theatre Show based on “The Wonderful Visit” by H.G.Wells
Text: Fabio Pisano; Actors: Nikolin Ferketa, Rajmonda Markja, Pjerin Vlashi, Fritz Selmani, Rita Gjeka Kacarosi, Julinda Emiri, Jozef Shiroka, Merita Smaja, Aleksander Prenga, Vladimir Doda; Adaptarion, Costumes, Scenography and Direction: Davide Iodice; Translation: Zija Vuka; Original music: Lino Cannavacciuolo: Lights: Loïc Francois Hamelin; Scenographic constructions: Divni Gushta: Assistant Director: Jozef Shiroka; Distribution: Danilo Soddu: Stage inspector: Mikel Vuksani: Make-up and hairdressing: Albert Shiroka: Sound: Bledi Doçi: Lighting technicians: Arben Meshnuni, Eniko Mosi: Tailoring: Aferdita Hebovija: Costume repertoire: Leonard Guga: Stage technicians: Artan Çanga, Marko Prendi : Props: Arjan Lishi; Angel‘s figure was created by: Chicca Ruocco
About the show:
Near a small town still haunted by the echoes of war, a priest shoots an angel, who approached the human world for who knows what reason; or at least that’s what they say, that’s what the village madman who first noticed the strange bird remembers. Overwhelmed by this extraordinary event and by a deep sense of guilt, the priest decides to make this welcome and care for that wounded, wonderful and ambiguous being; that feels everything, that knows everything, except how to “live” that world you only dreamed of. And it is his “abnormal” approach to that thing called life that makes it impossible for him to stay here.
In fact, the country cannot tolerate the visit of the stranger, the angel, and quickly becomes hostile to him, hostile, stigmatizing his deformity; its diversity. Gradually burdened by the gravity of human meaninglessness, unable to return to the heavenly place and marginalized in the human one, the angel will find relief only in music, miraculously preserved in a violin and “asylum” only in eyes and love of Delia.
The text underlying the stage score draws inspiration from Herbert George Wells’ “The Wonderful Visit”, a visionary pioneer of genres and languages, but shifting his axis of interest from satire towards Victorian conformity and welfare to a more contemporary critique, which has to do above all with how we welcome “those who come from outside”, the stranger. Whether you’re an immigrant or an angel, it doesn’t matter; if you’re not like me, if I don’t know you, then you’re a danger.