The Clean Ones (Pastrikes) – Ancient Theatre of Dodoni

21 & 22 July, Ancient Theatre of Dodoni

Production: ELLINIKI ETAIRIA THEATROU AEPE (Art Theatre)

Genre: Theatre

Time: 21.00
Duration: 70′

Pre-booking for 21st of July

Pre-booking for 22nd of July

This is a performance that combines excerpts from Aeschylus’ Iketides (The Suppliant Women), historical facts, testimonies, traditional sounds but also original texts and songs, in order to shed light on the saga of the relocation of the young women who constituted the vast majority of the refugee population.

Those young widows, single and orphaned women, in their attempt to claim their professional and personal “rehabilitation” in the patriarchal Greece of ’22, are exploited by men and subjected to racism by Greek women who see them as rivals.

They call them “pastrikes” (the “clean ones”) but not in order to praise their love of grooming and cleaning: those times in Greece the only women who often washed themselves –because of their profession– were prostitutes. “Honest” women did not need to wash any “shame” off of them.

Creative team

Text, direction: Marianna Calbari

Sets, costumes: Christina Calbari

Music: Avgerini Gatsis

Choreography: Christina Soyoultzis

Sets, lighting: Stella Kaltsou

Performers: Avgerini Gatsis, Katerina Lypiridou, Marilena Moschou, Konstantina Takalou, Amalia Tsekoura

Music is performed live by two musicians