Plays of Henrik Ibsen on the Albanian Stage

Abstract

This paper mainly focuses on the Ibsen’s plays staged on the Albanian Theatre through the years. It mainly picks out the most famous plays of Ibsen, such as “An Enemy to the People”, “A Doll’s House” and "John Gabriel Borkman". The Albanian audience through the translation of Noli knows Henrik Ibsen, so the stage directors made their exquisite choices while deciding to put his plays on Albanian National Theatre, but not only. The cast of the actors managed to transmit Ibsen’s most notorious ideas of modern drama, his drama of ideas also called discussion dramas. A special feature of Ibsen’s dramas was not the events, but the characters. Each character is personalized, clearly drawn within some unexplored psychic targets; it is a strong "solitary", hardly manipulated, almost a pre-destined one, acting, and fitting itself to a hereditary condition, suddenly found in the panic of an increasing pressure that tends to cover or to bypass a terrifying secret. Its soul formula is irreparable. This was the motto of the actors while staging Ibsen’s plays under the directions of the talented directors.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n6p535