The Black Journey – Ancient Theatre of Aigeira

29 & 30 July • Ancient Theatre of Aigeira

 Production: BIJOUX DE KANT

Genre: Theatre

Time: 19:30
Duration: 80′

Pre-booking for 29th of July

Pre-booking for 30th of July

The Black Journey is the real life testimony of a young Greek man who was recruited to take part in the Asia Minor Expedition.

The bijoux de kant company talks about the vital needs, the hunger, the thirst and the cruelty planted by war in the souls of all people, regardless of their nationality. It talks about the uprooting, the life of refugees, and the new cultural identity of Greece. In a field of memory, in a landscape of fragments, an unknown soldier of the Engineer Battalion vividly describes the wound of being uprooted and rewrites history.

The protagonist is accompanied by an Angel, his younger self, and eastern melodies of Asia Minor performed by a young girl from Athens, who sings to the Smyrnaean rhythms of a culturally new Greece.

Creative team

Text: unknown author/ real life testimony

Concept, direction: Yannis Skourletis

Text adaptation: Asimenia Efthymiou

Sets: bijoux de kant

Costumes: Marios Rammos

Painting: Maria Karabela

Graphic material: Athina Kampouri

Performers: Thanasis Dovris, Vasilis Milionis and the musician Theodora Athanasiou

Heartfelt thanks for digging up the text are due to journalist Christos Paridis.

Production: BIJOUX DE KANT