6 a.m. How to disappear completely

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.