Part of: FUTURE N.O.W. 2023
Theater, Performance

EARTHQUAKE

by Vasilis Vilaras

Dates

Age guidance

16+

Prices

5 — 10 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Thursday - Sunday
Time
20:00
Venue
Upper Stage

Tickets

Type
Price
Full price
10 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people
8 €
Groups 10+ people
7 €
Neighborhood residents
7 €
Unemployed, People with disabilities
5 €
Companions
7 €

Onassis Stegi Friends and general presale: 08 MAR 2023, 17:00

End of presale: 09 APR 2023, 21:30

Information

Combined tickets for 2 shows (On the same day)

“Call Me Sugar” & “Earthquake”
Full price: 17 €
Friend: 14 €

“Earthquake” & “Perseids or How to Party Hard”
Full price: 17 €
Friend: 14 €

Combined tickets for 3 shows (On the same day)

“Call Me Sugar” & “Earthquake” & “Perseids or How to Party Hard”
Full price: 23 €
Friend: 18 €

Duration

100 minutes

English surtitles

Performances with English surtitles in March: οn Saturday 25, Sunday 26, Thursday 30 and Friday 31 March 2023.

Performances with English surtitles in April: on Saturday 1, Sunday 2, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 April 2023.

Νon-binary people, trans femininities, fat bodies, immigrant women and sex workers take upon the Upper Stage, just for being who they are.

Andreas Simopoulos

“Earthquake” by Vasilis Vilaras

Is it a vaudeville show? Α concert; A confessional manifesto? A panel interview around a big table, broadcasted on a public network? An awards ceremony where no one shows up to receive the award? An official premiere that perpetually repeats itself?

It is certainly a bone-shaking, seismic performance, bringing together trans femininities, non-binary people, fat bodies, immigrants, and sex workers on stage so that they can sing the hate speech they’ve suffered just cause they are who they are.

“This “Earthquake” takes the Upper Stage of the Onassis Stegi to cause that rift in which hormone therapies, resident permit paperwork, OnlyFans, cheesy love songs, lost virginities, Albanian wide foreheads, gender identities, police identity cards, dom tops, submissive bottoms, love migrants, conversion therapies, crash diets, pronouns, Grindr, trash TV culture, and make-up tutorials. A set of experiences which reminds us that, contrary to the dominant narrative that things are getting better year by year, the pain might remain the same when you grow up as a member of the LGBTQIA++ community in a country that systematically cultivates racism and all types of phobic behavior towards the brightest and most fearless individuals.

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    Earthquake | Vassilis Vilaras

Αbout Earthquake
  • “Earthquake” –the second part in a trilogy that launched with the work “Plague” (2022) and is set to be completed by the work “Deluge”– tackles such issues as sexuality, gendered violence, gender identity, and hateful behavior towards anything that deviates from heteronormativity.
  • Vasilis Vilaras first partnered with Onassis Stegi for the online work “RED RIDING SHOES”, presented on the Onassis Channel on YouTube as part of the Onassis Young Choreographers Festival – ONC8 in 2021.
  • The performance text was formulated by the director in partnership with the performers who, during the course of the rehearsal process, shared their personal experiences of everyday hateful comments they have been subjected to in both the real and online worlds. These comments were then used as source material for the dramaturgy of the work.

Photo: Andreas Simopoulos

Credits

  • Directed by

    Vasilis Vilaras

  • Dramaturgy

    Lemonia Gianniri

  • Music

    Ecati

  • Set Design

    Dimos Klimenof

  • Costumes

    Filippos Missas

  • Lighting Design

    Vasya Attarian

  • Line Producer

    Thalia Griva

  • Performers

    Motsi Georgiou, Iacovos, Adam Khalil, Agim Tzimis Mitsi, Artemisia Reppa, Vasilis Vilaras

  • Surtitles’ translation in English

    Memi Katsoni

  • Simultaneous Surtitling

    Yannis Papadakis

  • Commissioned & produced

    Onassis Stegi