19 & 20 August, Heptapyrgion, Thessaloniki
Production: Theros Theatre Company
Genre: Theatre
Time: 20:30
Duration: 75′
Pre-booking for 19th August
Pre-booking for 20th August
On 15 November 1922 D. Gounaris, N. Stratos, P. Protopapadakis, N. Theotokis, G. Baltatzis and G. Hadjianestis were sentenced to death for high treason as the main culprits for the Asia Minor Catastrophe and were executed at Goudi. In the morning of that same day, the President of the Extraordinary Military Tribunal, Al. Othoneos, reads out the verdict and withdraws without saying “the trial is concluded”. The trial of the six was never concluded technically.
Freedom to Die is the trial and reenactment of those events that followed the verdict and those that were hurriedly kept secret “to convince public opinion that all lawful procedures were abided by”.
Nowadays, how many trials and what kind of trials are set up “to convince the public opinion”? How many real events are disguised as fictitious ones and vice versa? And how does each one of us perceive and interpret the world surrounding us?
Creative team
Concept, direction: Electra Ellinikioti
Set, costumes: Dimitra Liakoura
Music, sound design: Grigoris Eleftheriou
Lighting: Ismini Starida
Collaborating director: Terpsi Kontargyri
Scientific consultant: Manos Lambrakis
Photos, video: Marili Zarkou, Fanis Pavlopoulos
Contact: Eleanna Georgiou
Performers: Electra Ellinikioti, Maria Mamouri, Iro Sofia Smyrnioudi, Anna Maria Papaioannou