"Emata" ("Bloods") by Efthimis Filippou
VASISTAS Company & Argyro Chioti
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18 €
Concs 10 € | Unemployed 5 €
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On Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10, 11, 12 and 17, 18 & 19 October with English surtitles
A bizarre performance-concert full of oddness and black humour from the scriptwriter of "Dogtooth", Efthymis Filippou, and the daring director, Argyro Chioti.
“Dimitris Kalafatis, aged 40 or so, accidentally rips open his throat in July 1989.” Like a modern-day Philoctetes, Efthimis Filippou's hero can only watch on as his wound fails to heal, festers and leaves its bloody traces on his shirt, his pillow, and the bodies of his wife and children. He writes to his dearest friend about it. "Emata" ("Bloods"), the outstanding Greek scriptwriter's first theatrical work, takes the form of the correspondence between two friends. Mirroring the epistolary masterpieces of Rousseau, Laclo and Goethe, and laced with the bizarre and the humorous, with politician's paranoid speeches and the daydreams of ordinary folk, the work is transformed by Argyro Chiotis' direction into a punk oratorio awash with surrealism and quick-witted comedy. The daring young director with a style all her own combines an abstract aesthetic with conceptual density, a poetic atmosphere and a vibrant theatricality as she delineates anew the concept of the theatrical chorus ancient and contemporary. The themes of community and the relationship between public and private space, collective and individual memory and responsibility run through her productions, which could be described as choreographed tableaux vivants.
For "Emata" ("Bloods"), the stage is turned into a ring within which she orchestrates the ‘moving pictures' of a bizarre production-concert: an oratorio of bodies and emotions, outlandish fantasies and revelatory admissions. The corresponding characters are brought to life and invite us to bear witness to their reality. Which is how the play becomes an extended-play love song to Nineties Greece, to personal and collective trauma and, ultimately, to the bizarre feeling of living in a world haunted by open wounds and vital lies.
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Credits
Direction
Argyro Chioti
Dramaturgical consultant
Christiana Galanopoulou
Stage set
Eva Manidaki
Lighting
Tasos Palaioroutas
Costumes
Pavlos Thanopoulos
Music
Giannis Angelopoulos (Jan van de Engel)
Assistant Director
Daphne Koutra, Matina Pergioudaki
Artistic associate
Ariane Labed
Surtitles Translation
Memi Katsoni
Cast
Evdoxia Androulidaki, Antonis Antonopoulos, Eleni Vergeti, Giorgos Gallos, Efthymis Theou, Evi Saoulidou, Georgina Chryskioti
Production
Onassis Stegi
Friday 10 October
After performance talk with Vasistas Company
Moderated by Sophia Eftichiadou, Theater Specialist
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