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Part of: Fast Forward Festival 5

FFF5 | Trapped

Medie Megas

Dates

Prices

5 — 10 €

Location

Athens

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Thursday-Sunday
Time
18:00
Venue
National Theatre, Ziller Building, Hall

Information

Tickets

General presale and Onassis Stegi Friends presale: from 24 APR 2018, 12:00
Full price: 10 €
Reduced, Onassis Stegi Friends & Groups 5-9 people: 8 €
Groups 10+ people, Νeighbourhood residents: 7 €
Unemployed, People with disabilities & Companions: 5 €

The availability of tickets for English-speaking viewers is limited.

General

Wheelchair users will not be able to attend a small part of the performance, as it will take place at a non-accessible location for wheelchairs.

Us or them? A site-specific performance about the dilemmas that have divided and fanaticized Modern Greeks throughout their history. An unusual performance embracing theatre and dance components unfolds inside and around the National Theatre Ziller Building.

Photo: Christos Symeonides

Can we really learn something from history? Even if we realize what makes it tick, even if we understand what really happened, can we derive something useful for our lives or are we condemned as a people and as human beings to repeat the same mistakes? Why are we fanaticized by each dispute? Why does a schism arise at every turn of our history?

With the eye of the contemporary artist who tries to understand the mechanism of the Greek fixation on dichotomy, Medie Megas takes us to early 1900s where, in the midst of clashes between the Greek factions, we find an American: Isadora Duncan. Duncan, a passionate woman and a pioneer of modern dance, twice found herself caught in the midst of historic events that marked Greek history, with violent confrontations that incurred loss of life: the 1903 language events known as the “Oresteians” and the National Schism of 1915. What was the significance of her presence in Athens at the time? What has remained the same and what has changed since then? A look at history past and present. A performative experience, an unusual adventure that starts as documentary theatre, evolves into a site-specific installation and escalates into a participatory performance.

For the performance of "Trapped", the Onassis Stegi collaborates with the National Theatre and travels to the Ziller Building, an edifice that plays a major role in the Oresteian events, to which the performance refers.

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The Onassis Foundation has been supportive of the National Theatre for a long time. Recently, it has been a major/primary sponsor of the 2015-2016 performances, a sponsor of the 2017 National Theatre Drama School educational program (inviting/funding visiting scholars from foreign academies and universities) and in 2018 the Onassis Foundation subsidises the interior reconstruction of the REX building, which will accommodate the Young People’s Stage of the National Theater.

CREDITS

  • Concept & Research

    Medie Megas

  • Choreography & Direction

    Medie Megas in collaboration with the performers

  • Performers

    Kate Adams, Antonis Antonopoulos, Yorgos Valais, Zoi Dimitriou, Menti Mega, Alexia Beziki, Katerina Bella, Periklis Skordilis

  • Dramaturgy

    Kate Adams

  • Original Music

    Chrysanthos Christodoulou

  • Set Designer

    Maro Michalakakos

  • Lighting

    Tasos Palaioroutas

  • Costumes

    Vasileia Rozana, Lazaros Tzovaras

  • Assistant Choreographer

    Vaso Giannakopoulou

  • Historical Research

    Christiana Galanopoulou

  • Photography

    Christos Simeonides

  • Location Scouting

    Dimitris Chalkiadakis

  • Sewing by

    Dimitra Kapnoriza and Anna Kypraiou (students of Avioti Fashion ED)

  • Musicians

    Michalis Vrettas (violin), Giorgos Bikoulis (accordion), Stelios Chatzikaleas (trumpet), Chrysanthos Christodoulou (saxophone)

  • English Voice Recording

    Phillippa Howarth

  • English Voices

    Emma Short, Kevin Parkin

  • Greek Voices

    Nikolas Makris, Rallou Roumelioti

  • Set Construction

    Lazaridis Scenic Studio

  • Production Design

    Konstantinos Sakkas

  • Line Production

    Ioanna Venetaki

  • Production Management

    Delta Pi

  • Commissioned and Produced by

    Onassis Culture/FFF

  • Co-production

    National Theatre of Greece

  • Supported by

    Isadora & Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center

  • Special thanks to

    Stathis Livathinos, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, Manolis Andriotakis, Penelope Iliaskou, Alkis Raftis, Alexandros Filadelfeys, Christina Mitsopoulou, Kostas Ntalas, Kostis Syfnaios, Maria Vasariotou, Giorgos Nomikos, Maria Konstantopoulou, Irini Konstanta, as well as Diagennesi Marble-Sculpture, ELIA-MIET (Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive - Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece), Anastasia Gaugiotaki, Director of Studies at Avioti Fashion ED and Bespoke & Haute Couture Department, for their support and valuable contribution in the creation process.

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