Ohrid, 6 August 2023 (MIA) - Christopher Marlowe's Edward II theatre play, a co-production project by “Jordan H.K. Dzinot” Veles Theatre and Nikolai O. Masalitinov Drama Theatre in Plovdiv, directed by Andriy Zholdak, will have its premiere at the Ohrid Summer Festival on Sunday.

The director of the “Jordan H.K. Dzinot” Veles Theater, Sasho Dimovski, expressed his pleasure that the Ohrid Summer festival hosts the premiere for which they worked diligently for two months.

“This is a play with an exceptionally valuable playwright and acting team, a production collaboration between the National Theatre “Jordan Hadzi Konstantinov Dzinot” from Veles and the Nikolai O. Masalitinov Drama Theatre in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. We worked tirelessly for two months under conditions and methods that surpassed anything I had previously experienced in creating a theatrical performance. It was an intense and rigorous process that led us to a finished result different from anything our theatre has produced before,” Dimovski said.

The role of the main character, Edward II, is divided into two roles, which are simultaneously realized by two actors in the same play. It is not an alternate casting, but rather an understanding of two strata of one being through two different expressions in the performance of the play.

“I consider this to be the greatest experience of my acting career. It is a challenge for me to perform in the play using the Macedonian language, but thanks to the help of the director of Veles Theatre, Sasho Dimovski, I hope I will manage the role well. It has been a very interesting process; we all know what kind of director Andriy Zholdak is. I am thrilled to work with such a top-notch team where humanity comes first,” said Boris Krstev, the Bulgarian actor from the Masalitinov Drama Theatre, who will be seen by the audience in the role of Edward II.

After the premiere at Ohrid Summer Festival at the Grigor Prlichev Cultural Center, the play Edward II will be performed at the home stage of the Veles Theatre in September, and then in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

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