“Domestication” by Demosthenes Papamarkos
Direction: Georgia Mavragani
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Onassis Stegi Friends & General Presale: from 20 DEC 2019, 20:00
Full price: 7, 10, 12, 15 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 8, 10, 12 €
Groups 10+ people: 7, 9, 11 €
Neighborhood residents: 7 €
People with disabilities, Unemployed: 5 €
Companions: 5, 7, 10 €
Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org
Duration
80 minutes
English surtitles
On Friday 24 and at the weekend 25-26 January 2020 with English surtitles
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We would like to inform you that before each performance a photo of the audience will be taken just for purposes of the play. This photo will be part of the performance and be shown on the stage’s screen. After each performance the photo will be deleted.
Introduction
After the success of “Giak”, award-winning author and historian, Demosthenes Papamarkos writes, while Georgia Mavragani directs, a contemporary parable about how the human word tames and subjugates the world.
Photo: Dimitris Michalakis
Where is the entrance to the underworld? Some say that it can be found in the depths of a cave, while others at the outer limits of an unknown sea. This is what human beings create stories about.
Yet death is something that we can only pretend to know, and so it remains perpetually untamed – foreign to our sense of space, time, the word.
Historian and writer, Demosthenes Papamarkos, in his first collaboration with Stegi, writes “Domestication” (2019) a parable about how human narrative tames and subjugates our world.
Georgia Mavragani directs a play that wavers between conjuring the past and bearing witness to the present. Myth and history – Homer’s “Odyssey”, Virgil’s “Aeniad”, Aeschylus, Herodotus, the dead Sybil’s speech to Odin, and testimonies by contemporary refugees – are all interwoven so as to underscore our tendency to use “mourning” as both raw material for artistic creation and object of aesthetic fascination.
What, in the end, does mourning reveal to us about human nature?
Collage: Constantinos Chaidalis
How does the word circumscribe the world?
With a script by Demosthenes Papamarkos, and directed by Georgia Mavragani, “Domestication” began its life as a short play of 24 minutes. Performed at the International Theatre Festival, “The Future of Europe,” organized by the Stuttgart Theatre in 2018, it was the Experimental Stage of the National Theatre of Greece’s official entry.
Demosthenes Papamarkos received an Onassis Foundation Artistic Research Fellowship for the writing of an original play that takes place on an island.“Domestication” represents the third collaboration between Georgia Mavragani and Demosthenes Papamarkos, the most recent being Aeschylus’s “Eumenides” performed as part of the National Theatre’s “Oresteia” trilogy (Epidaurus Festival, 2019).
Georgia Mavragani’s previous collaborations with Stegi include her direction of the play “Not innocent any more,” for the 2014-2015 Youth Festival; her work as writer and director of “Life is not easy” (2013) and “That’s how everyone does it, and everything else I know about the world” (2014); and her collaboration with Tim Etchells on the play “And for the Rest” (Athens) for the Fast Forward Festival 3 (2016). Furthermore, she has participated in the Onassis Foundation’s Stegi Educational Program as director of “Life like an open book” – a production created and performed by people with mental disabilities.
Wednesday 22 January
After performance talk
Moderated by George Kazantzidis, Assistant Professor of Latin Literature, University of Patras
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Photo: Andreas Simopoulos
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