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Mbreterëshat e klubit të natës

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The star actor Alexander Moissi is made to leave Germany and arrives in Albania, where nobody knows him. Running out of money, he is forced to re-invent himself artistically and socially. Rumour has it that, after a few detours, he opened a nightclub with a couple of new friends and put on a very successful show called Mbretëreshat e klubit të natës.

Alexander Moissi (1879–1935), one of the highest paid internationally touring actors of the 1920s, was posthumously re-invented as an Artist i Popullit in the Socialist Republic of Albania, while disappearing into obscurity elsewhere. Of Italian and Albanian descent, with a cosmopolitan career and orientation, Moissi’s hybrid, cross-border biography and historical reception subverts any simplistic cultural, political or ethnic ascriptions. In the present context of increasingly drastic practices of forced translocation and rampantly aggressive nationalisms, , Bruch‘- speculatively imagines Moissi’s ‘remigration’ to Albania from Germany after years abroad in western Europe. Together with director Klaudja Piroli, we stage a farcical entertainment which, through the figure of the celebrity, unravels the patchy mythical fabrics of identity.

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By, Bruch‘- and Klaudja Piroli

WITHRexhina Ibro, Matia Llupa, Paolo Kadillari, Ina Kollçaku

CONTRIBUTIONS BYKUNTHUG, Lorenza Longhi, Valentin Masé

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PREMIERE22 May 2024, Teatri Kombëtar Ekspërimental, Tirana, Albania

TOURINGTeatri Kombëtar Eksperimental, Tirana, 22–24 May, 29 May–2 June 2024 Prishtina International Theater Festival, 25 May 2024 Mediums – Tirana Contemporary Theatre Festival, 16 July 2024 Kosovo Albania Theatre Showcase, Tirana, 2 November 2024

SUPPORTED BYJury Preis des Körber Festival Junge Regie 2022

PHOTOS byMarjo Cani

DOCUMENTATION(link: https://vimeo.com/953042536/dd8678c691?ts=0&share=copy text: Full-length video with English subtitles)