Koço Qendro
Veteran actor, the legend of the Korcar Theater.
92-year-old Harpagon from the Korca scene!
Born in the village of Senice in Delvina on May 15, 1927. He completed his 7-year elementary education in the city of Delvina, while his secondary education in the city of Elbasan. At school, he sympathized with the National Liberation War and at the age of 15 Qendro became a partisan for the liberation of the country.
Received the rank of officer and for 11 years he performed political duties in the army. In 1956 he was charged with duties in the cultural sector in Korcé.
At the beginning of 1960, Koco was selected as one of the founding actors who created the troupe of Professional Estrada in Korca. From its creation until he retired, Qendro created over 20 premieres of a bunch of characters with artistic levels, performing in the short plays of the variety theater. such as humorous pieces, pantomimes, dialogues, monologues, parodies and couplets, etc.
Figures realized by K. Qendro. besides the stage. also appreciated by critics, are those in the “A. Z. Cajupi” theater of Korça, as well as Sir Enry Egidi in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, director Pirro Mani*, with whom he presented the burlesque nature, up to a harmless buffoon, of the brave knight but the coward, unfortunate lover of Olivia; Harpagon in the comedy “Stinger” by Moliere, directed by Dhimitër Orgocka*, who played it twice, in 1976 and 30 years later, in 2005, when he also won the award as “The Best Actor” ” at the “Apollon” festival in Fier.
Thanks to his acting power, inner energy, abundant comic data, expressed even in the thin and short body, in the expressive facial expressions, in the processed eyes, in the face mask or thin voice;
the plastic fault found in the Humpback, especially his comic and graceful behavior that was transfigured into the organic action of the character himself.
K. Qendro brought one of the most successful portraits of Harpagon to Albania, alongside that of Zef Jubani and Robert Ndrenika *.
In several movies his creations, although episodic characters, have been interesting, such as: Sefedin in “The Coping” (1976), Aleks Xixa in “The Decision” (1984), Ballista in “The Bronz Bust” (1970) and Leksi in “The dawns of the great season” (1981), or as the old man in the movie “Three days from a life” (1986).
He has worked with dedication for the establishment of the card file, in the museum room and the history of the theater alongside the entire artistic movement in the region of Korca.
For his merits in both the liberation war and the stage, he was honored with 6 Medals, as well as 3 Orders: “Red Star” and “Naim Frashëri”, Class II and Class III.
“I belong to that generation of actors on the Korça stage who did not pursue higher studies for the stage, but I can say with conviction that I graduated from the “academy” of the Korça stage, where there have been directors, starting with the great Sokrat Mio, who was the first Albanian director to graduate from higher studies in France; like Pirro Mani, the great actor, like Mihallaq Luarasi, Aleko Skali, Dhimitër Trajce and their worthy successor Dhimitër Orgocka, who entered the stage wearing shorts, and now has turned white, and has not left the stage.”.
Qendro surprises everyone when he goes on stage and performs the role of Harpagon in Moliere’s comedy “The Miser” at the age of 92, for the third time after 1976, 2005 and 2018.
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Reference: Albanian Encyclopedia, Theater and Cinematography – Toena 2009 / J. Papagjoni / p.323-324
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