6 a.m. How to disappear completely
Blitz theater group
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Full price: 10, 15, 18, 28 €
Reduced & Small groups (5-9 people): 8, 11, 14, 22 €
Large groups (10+ people): 6, 9, 12, 20 €
People with disabilities, Unemployed: 5 € - Companions: 10 €
Language
On 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 and 18 October with English surtitles
General
Strobe lights will be used during the show.
The most visionary Greek theater group of the younger generation returns to the Onassis Stegi with an international co-production after a three-year tour in Europe. Imagining theater as a construction site for building utopias, blitz transports us to the forbidden zone of a future happiness. There where we disappear, utopia may appear.
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Following the dystopian “Trilogy of the End” (“Late Night”, “Don Quixote” and “Galaxy”), the Blitz theater group now creates its most radically optimistic stage narrative: a triptych in search of a new utopia – political, social and personal. Their new reading of the world discloses those hidden spiritual elements, without which living is mere survival.
Blitz’s motto is ‘No more reality’. It takes its cue from Romanticism’s discord with the world, as expressed in the restless poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin. The Manifestos of Futurism and the utopian constructions of contemporary architecture provide additional aesthetic orientation. Special reference points are “Andrei Tarkovsky” ’s film “Stalker” (1979) and the Soviet science-fiction novel “Roadside Picnic” (1972) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, on which this work is based.
In “6:00 a.m. How to disappear completely”, Giorgos Valais, Aggeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, and their colleagues explore the idea of a route to a place (both external and internal) as well as another level of reality. They are squatters of an abandoned construction site at the edge of a city. There they will build a future territory, making poetic use of what’s left of the past. In this promised land, ‘two citizens will be enough to build a metropolis, three to build a country, and four to build a world’, in the words of the visual artist, architect and performer Vito Acconci.
“6:00 a.m. How to disappear completely” is a production of the Onassis Stegi and Blitz theater group, co-produced by Sao Luiz Teatro Municipal - Lisbon (PT), La Filature – Scène Nationale de Mulhouse (FR), La Comédie De Reims – Festival Reims Scènes d’Europe (FR).
Dramaturgs are Stefanie Carp, distinguished German dramaturg and director of performing arts at the Vienna International Festival Festwochen, and the accomplished Greek dramaturg Nikos Flessas.
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Blitz theater group have extensively presented their work abroad, in important theaters and European festivals, such as the Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Schaübuhne (Berlin), Comédie de Reims (Reims), Théâtre Dijon-Bourgogne (Dijon), and Théâtre des Abbesses (Paris).
Last year, they organized a series of extensive workshops in Brussels and in Reims, which resulted in creating the main body of the performance “6 a.m. How to disappear completely.”
Following its presentation in Athens, the performance will travel in two more theater stages in co-production with the Onassis Stegi: La Filature in Mulhouse, as part of Vagamondes Festival (January 14–15, 2016), and La Comédie de Reims, as part of the Scènes d’Europe Festival (February 3, 2016).
Aggeliki Papoulia and Christos Passalis co-starred in Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Dogtooth,” one of the films that were nominated for Best International Feature at the 2011 Academy Awards.
“One of the most fearless European actresses; she performs without a safety belt.” This is what the renowned German magazine “Der Spiegel” wrote about Aggeliki Papoulia and her performance in the film “A Blast” (2014) by Syllas Tzoumerkas. In Lanthimos’s latest film “The Lobster” (2015 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize), Papoulia plays the part of the Heartless Woman, co-starring with Rachel Weisz, Colin Farrell, Léa Seydoux, John C. Reilly, Ariane Labed, and Ben Whishaw.
Blitz theater group operates as an artists’ collective, with its members working equally as peers in the process of conception, writing, directing, and dramaturgy, sharing the conviction that everything is in question, both in theater and in real life.
Blitz means “thunder” in German.
Thursday 15 October
After performance talk with the Blitz theater group
Moderated by George Sampatakakis, Assistant Professor of Theater Studies, Department of Theater Studies, University of Patras
Friday 9 & Saturday 10 October
Masterclass by Stefanie Carp
Addressed to: Actors, directors and dramaturgs
Cost: 20€
Reservations: education@onassis.org, T. 213 017 8002
Credits
Direction
Blitz theater group
Dramaturgy
Blitz theater group, Angelos Skassilas, Stefanie Carp
Set designer
Efi Birba
Costumes designer
Vassilia Rozana
Lighting designer
Tassos Paleoroutas
Sound design - Μusic
Yorgos Konstantinidis, Coti K.
Movement
Yannis Nikolaidis
Assistant director
Vassia Attarian
Assistant set designer
Alexia Chrysochoidou
Make-up designer
Evi Zafiropoulou
Hair designer
Chronis Tzimos
With
Aris Armaganidis, Aris Balis, Michalis Kimonas, Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Areti Seintaridou, Yorgos Valais
Stage automation
Thanos Eleftherakos
Props
Tzela Christopoulou, Yorgos Koskorellos, Cristina Suarez Herrero
Set model construction
Michaila Pliaplia
Set construction
Panagiotis Blanas
Seamstress
Lena Papamichail
Shoes & leather accessories construction
Ourania Psevedourou
Masks construction
Roger Fischer
Fabric special treatments & dying
Grigoris Bessas
Tailoring
Efi Karantasiou, Litsa Moumouri
Surtitles translation
Memi Katsoni
Project development, Promotion & Touring
Judith Martin / Ligne Directe
Production Manager
Maria Dourou
Production
Onassis Stegi & Blitz theater group
Co-produced by
Sao Luiz Teatro Municipal - Lisbon (PT), La Filature – Scène Nationale de Mulhouse (FR), La Comédie De Reims – Festival Reims Scènes d’Europe (FR), , Théâtre De La Ville - Paris (FR), Nouveau Théâtre De Montreuil (FR), Ligne Directe - Paris (FR)
Special thanks to
all the participants of the workshops ‘Theatre as a construction site’, that were realized in Brussels and Reims, the Athens Festival, Synergyo, Yolanda Markopoulou, Tanya Kaladyasnaya, Voula Michail, GIANNETOS company, and MISHOP stores.
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