8 July, 2015 – Stories of wandering and hope in the third millennium go on stage in Tirana, in a show about travel and the many ways of being travelers. The play goes on stage in the Albanian capital on Saturday, July 18 and Wednesday, July 22. The Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana and the Butrinti Festival are promoting the event, titled “Voci Straniere,” set up by the Silence Teatro company from Bergamo, directed by Luigi Pezzotti. The play is part of the new edition of the International Butrinti Theatre Festival, which since 2000 sees the archaeological site in the Albania South, near the border with Greece, host in July the International Theatre Festival. All shows are held in the evening, when the park is lit by torches and viewers sit on the steps of the Ancient Greek theater. In this charming place, the fascinated public can learn about the Silence Teatro project, which for years – with its touring shows – has taken part in important festivals in Russia, Poland, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Estonia, Georgia, Finland, Hungary, and Lebanon. “Voci Straniere” brings to the stage the million of stories, identical yet different, of men, women, children driven away from their land by intolerance or poverty or from political, racial, or religious wars. At the center of the show, there is the foreigner: the one who wants to find in a new land something that belongs to him, a trace of his own history. The theme is more contemporary than ever, as it already was in the 19th century, when many peoples in Europe sought fortune in America. Today, there is still a multitude of people forced to leave the land in which they were born and raised. And this is their story. (Gil)
