“The Waves” by Virginia Woolf
Direction: Dimitris Karantzas
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Full price: 12 €
Reduced & Small groups (5-9 people): 9 €
Large groups (10+ people): 8 €
Unemployed, People with disabilities: 5 €
Companions: 9 €
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Age guidance: 13+
Two more performances are added on Sundays 20 March and 3 April at 12:00
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.
“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!
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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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