Time & Date
Information
Tickets
Onassis Stegi Friends & General Presale: from 5 SEP 2019, 17:00
Full price: 7, 12, 15, 20 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 10, 12, 16 €
Groups 10+ people: 9, 11, 14 €
Νeighborhood residents: 7 €
People with disabilities & Unemployed: 5 € | Companions: 10 €
Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org
Duration
1 hour and 40 minutes (no interval)
General
Strobe lights will be used during the performance.
On Friday 18 & at the weekends 12-13 and 19-20 October 2019 with English surtitles.
No performances on Mondays-Tuesdays.
Introduction
The Second Coming, the four horsemen, the seven seals, the Lamb of God, 666. One of the most influential and also most confounding texts in human history provides material for a contemporary on-stage ritual.
Photo: Nick Knight
It has been exciting imaginations since the first century CE, summoning utopias, dystopias, and revolutionary movements. It is divine prophecy? Escatological preaching? A message of patience, belief, and hope in a better future? A call to insurrection? What’s certain is that this ominous phantasmagoria is a world-changing text.
A director of the new generation, with an idiosyncratic visual sensibility, Thanos Papakonstantinou pays close attention to the Apocalypse of John, takes inspiration for a contemporary ritual, and notes:“Behind every insurrection is the desire for a radical reformation of humankind and of the world.
Behind every move toward reforming humankind and the world is the violence of the harvest.
Behind the violence of the harvest is the hope for rebirth.
Behind the hope for rebirth is the joy of destruction.
Behind the joy of destruction is the fear of death.
Behind the fear of death is the belief in beauty.
Behind the belief in beauty, there is light.
The myth of the Apocalypse is a kind of parable for the constant transformations of the human faith in a better world to come.”
Photos from the performance
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Photo: Elina Giounanli
According to the Christian tradition, the creator of the Apocalypse (95-96 CE) is John the Evangelist, exiled from Ephesus to Patmos.
The Apocalypse (“The Book of Revelation”) is the only apocryphal text included in the Canon of the Bible.
“A text not of one age or generation, but for all ages and all generations” (George Seferis)
“A book of comfort and hope” (Jean Delimo, historian)
“A terrifying meteorite of a text that broke free from the Old Testament’s graviational field and dropped into the orchard of the Gospels” (Ilias Petropoulos)
“It is not merely a biblical description but a very practical possibility” (Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, former General Secretary of the United Nations)
“A source for various expectations and revolts. A permanent prototype of the anticipation of a disaster and a hope for transformation. A tool for challenging any kind of established meaning.” (Umberto Eco)
Thursday 10 October
After performance talk
Moderated by Tina Mandilara, journalist and book critic
Credits
Special thanks for their valuable help during the research and preparation of the production: Panagiotis Andriopoulos, Stavros Zouboulakis, Sofia Katsoulieri, Nona Moleski, Nikos Panagiotou, Kalliroi Papadopoulou, Demonsthenes Papamarkos, Nektarios Stergiopoulos, Sakis Tolis, Michel Fais and Τesi Stavrou, Panagiotis Psychogios, Panos and Nana Papakonstantinou
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