SKAMPA THEATRE
The Future is in Eggs
IONESCO
Premiere 2012
Directed by Adonis Filipi
“An egg is fragile until the world decides it must carry the weight of everyone’s future.”
A performance that immerses the audience in a world where the individual fades beneath the weight of family and social pressure. Jacques is trapped in a system obsessed with reproduction and continuity—where creation no longer arises as a natural impulse, but is imposed through expectation and collective will. On stage unfolds a grotesque and explosive farce around “the future of the eggs,” where a simple symbol transforms into pressure, obligation, and institutionalized absurdity. Blending dark humor with sharp irony, the performance exposes the absurdity embedded within everyday existence. Both unsettling and captivating, it invites the audience to confront a lingering question: When does the future cease to belong to us?
When I see a play, I consider two points: (i) in making art, the virtue of esthetic of a play is absolutely important. (ii) I also expect a thoughtful aspect from a play? That’s, a play must be instructive.I congratulate director Adonis Filipi for successfully combining these points on his play. “Eggs”, a very successful, almost perfect performance as an alternative theater model was the show directed by Adonis Filipi. The anxiety of human reproduction, race heritage was given with a stunning style, an amusing sarcasm, with unexpected backed up as in customary spaces just as modern as well. This obsession, as essential as well as pagan, manages to take away the personality of the individual, doing the first production invalid in the name of the second.
Cast
Fatos Sela, Hajrie Rondo, Desantila Kristo, Hysen Mullajonuzi, Rina Narazani, Ilir Borodani, Dhimiter Topuzi, Tefta Mehmeti, Vanina Çala.
Creatives
Set & costumes design Fatbardh MARKU