“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
Announcement
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.
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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Credits
Written by
Demosthenes Papamarkos
Direction
Georgia Mavragani
Dramaturgy-Assistant Director
Rania Kelaiditi
Original Music Composition & Sound Design
Haris Neilas
Set & Costumes Design
Artemis Flessa
Lighting
Evina Vasilakopoulou
Movement
Alexia Nikolaou
Assistant to the Director
Nazik Aidinian
Assistant to the Set Designer / Costume Designer
Lili Kirili
With
Nikos Gialelis, Manos Petrakis, Konstantina Takalou
Participating also
Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Ilias Katevas, Elina Rizou
Surtitles translation
Memi Katsoni
Simultaneous Surtitling
Yannis Papadakis
Production Management / Line Producer
Rena Andreadaki, Zoe Mouschi
Produced by
Onassis Stegi
Acknowledgements
Evangelos Aslanidis, Stathis Galazoulas, Maria Kallitsi, Yorgos Kazantzidis, Apostolos Kokkaridas, Niki Tsepeneka, Alexia Tsouni, Irene Vlachou, Stavros Zoumboulakis, Halmat, Karima and Surrent
We would also like to wholeheartedly thank those who helped us in the process of contracting and rights clearance for the following material
Steve Gaunt, “Exodus: Vukovar 1991” (video) / Pier Paolo Pasolini, “Prophecy” (poem), in P.P. Pasolini, “Poem in the Shape of a Rose,” translated in Greek by Andreas Riziotis, Typothito/Dardanos Editions, 2006 / Dmitri Kessel, “Dekemvriana” (photo), in D. Kessel, “Greece of 1944,” Ammos Editions, 1994 (catalog number: 100)
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