Photo: Gely Kalambaka
Theater

“The Waves” by Virginia Woolf

Direction: Dimitris Karantzas

Dates

Tickets

5 — 12 €

Venue

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Saturday-Sunday
Time
18:30
Venue
5th floor - Young Theater Workshop

Information

Tickets

Full price: 12 €
Reduced & Small groups (5-9 people): 9 €
Large groups (10+ people): 8 €
Unemployed, People with disabilities: 5 €
Companions: 9 €

General

Age guidance: 13+

Two more performances are added on Sundays 20 March and 3 April at 12:00

Introduction

Impulses, longing, liberation. Restless teenage theater back at the Onassis Stegi for another year! Dimitris Karantzas engages with Virginia Woolf in a hymn to friendship on the Onassis Stegi Youth Stage.

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Photo: Gely Kalambaka

“The Waves” tell the story of a group of friends from the day they first go to school to the day the sun sets on their lives. Six friends who grow up with different dreams and goals, who fall in love, are disappointed but don’t give up hope, who live through loss and the worst life can throw at them, but triumph—gloriously or not—in the end. Following the ebb and flow of the spoken word, the text speaks of friendship and passion, of difference, of life, loss and the agony of existence and co-existence—all concerns which awaken with a vengeance in adolescence!

This year, the Onassis Stegi has entrusted its Youth Theatre to Dimitris Karantzas, an artist of the upcoming generation who stands out thanks to his unique theatrical idiom. In the wake of his European success with Dimitris Dimitriadis’ "The Circle of the Square", Karantzas returns to the Onassis Stegi with a production based on Virginia Woolf’s superb novel. In it, he further develops the concept of a restless, searching theatre for teenagers. “The Waves has been my favourite novel since I was a teenager”, he confesses. “By focusing on the rhythm and musicality of the words and the inherent drama of sound, the production seeks to compose a song out of fragments and forge the universal voice through which people have sought down the ages to comprehend the mystery of life during their fleeting spells in this world”.

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From the very beginning, Onassis Stegi has supported quality theater for teenagers in Greece. To this end, it has worked with the pioneering adolescent theater company Grasshopper Youth, and its founder and artistic head – the director and child psychiatrist Sofia Vgenopoulou. Onassis Stegi and Grasshopper Youth founded the Youth Theater Festival together, and also began commissioning works for young adults from major Greek writers. The first youth work to be staged was “Light On Screen” by Vangelis Ioannidis (2012-13). There followed “Open Waters” by Giannis Tsiros (2013-14), and “The Train” by Lenos Christidis. Last year, Onassis Stegi presented a devised theater piece on its Youth Stage – “Not Innocent Anymore”, directed by Georgia Mavragani.

“Virginia Woolf sits in the great pantheon of Western literature, standing alongside Proust and Joyce in a triad of great ground-breaking prose writers who opened up new pathways for the European novel over the first three decades of the twentieth century. One of the major and most militant of modernism’s leading figures, she was fully aware of the fact that a revolution in tone was the necessary consequence of a change in position and perspective.” – Aris Berlis

Virginia Woolf (born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London, in 1882) grew up in a cultured and urbane environment, but had a difficult and traumatic childhood. Given that she was self-taught, she came not to be influenced by the sterile academic nature of university life. From 1905 onwards, she played a leading role in the creation of the now legendary Bloomsbury Group, a circle of writers, painters, and critics who had a profound influence on the London cultural scene for two decades. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, a partner who stood by her side through trying times. She wrote eight novels, as well as short stories, critiques, and other essays. “The Waves”, published in 1931, is considered one of her masterpieces. Her prose oeuvre is characterized by the stream of consciousness technique, which documents thoughts and feelings as they flow, without any obvious logical connection. After a series of misadventures due to her deteriorating mental health, she committed suicide in 1941.

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Credits

The text is based on abstracts of
Aris Berli’s translation
Direction
Dimitris Karantzas
Assistant to the Director-Collaboration in the adaptation-Line Production
Theodora Kapralou
Sound Dramaturgy
Dimitris Kamarotos
Set Design
Cleo Boboti
Costumes
Ioanna Tsami
Lighting Design
Alekos Anastasiou
Assistant to the Costume Designer
Vassiliki Souri
Assistant to the Set Designer
Stefania Helectra Padavou
Hair Styling
Talkin’ Heads
With
Evdoxia Androulidakis, George Vourdamis-Maurogenis, Ioanna Piata, Elina Rizou, Michael Sarantis, Aeneas Tsamatis
Production
Onassis Stegi-Athens

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