Përballja e dy gjeneralëve: Pirro Mani – Serafin Fanko
The confrontation of the two generals: Pirro Mani - Serafin Fanko

Summary/Abstract: The National Theater, with an archive of plays put in this theater since 1945, has a large number of files of theatrical performances, which list the title of the play, author, director and year. In this archive, the file "The General of the Dead Army" contains important materials for one of the most dignified performances in the history of the Albanian Theater, staged in 1972 by the National Theater Troupe by director Pirro Mani. This play is a dramatization by the director himself, based on the novel with the same title by the great writer Ismail Kadare. The “General ”by Pirro Mani, another variant of this play is put, this time with the title“ Pilgrimage in anxiety ”, by the director Serafin Fanko. In the archive of the theater of this city, which begins its work in 1950, there is a large number of files, which, although fewer in number, are richer than those of the National Theater. Inside the file of the play "Pilgrimage in anxiety" of this archive, typed by the director himself, there is the text dramatized by the most representative director of this theater, Serafin Fanko, along with the directing platform. Both archives have, in addition to costume sketches, posters of each show, a considerable number of photographs taken during the shows. The photographic archive is of great importance for recording the history of Albanian directing in a period when performances were not recorded. Through them a mosaic of the visual way of constructing the show, mise-en-scène, makeup, costumes and scenography can be constructed. This visual documentation creates the opportunity also to get to know the great actors, and in the paragraph on actors, the photographs serve as a guide for the construction and conception of the characters visually. The photographs found in these files of the National Theater Archive and the “Migjeni” Theater Archive turn into a cognitive tool for future generations. Finding these materials of great importance for the theater in these archives was a discovery, without which we would not have been able to create a Confrontation between the generals of the Mani-Fanko theater, a study that has not been done to date.

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