24 07 2007 Tirana _ Albania’s international theatre festival, Butrinti 2000, closed on Monday after a week of highlights that brought theatre companies from all over the Balkans to the 2,500-year-old Roman amphitheatre.
The eighth festival, held annually in Butrinti, near Saranda, southern Albania, climaxed with the Barber of Seville, a production of the Albanian National Theatre, directed by the France’s Eric Vigner.
Other participants this year included the Atelier 31 company from Albania, the Nikolai Binev youth theatre of Sofia, the Belgrade Drama Theatre, the Collisions Company of England, the National Theatre of Northern Greece and the Drama Theatre of Skopje, Macedonia. Performances ranged from classical works like Medea, to Twelfth Night and The Small Theatre of Death.
Butrinti is considered one the most significant Roman archeological sites in the Mediterranean. Largely unknown to the outside world before the fall of the Stalinist regime of Albania’s former dictator, Enver Hoxha, the site now receives tens of thousands of visitors every year. (Birn)
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