8 & 9 August, Ancient Gymnasium of Olympia
Production: The Greyblue Gap and MetaTheatro
Genre: Theatre
Time: 21:15
Duration: 75′
Pre-booking for 8th of August
Pre-booking for 9th of August
Emerging from the bleakness of history, rowing across the river of time, women of different ages and ethnic backgrounds meet here and now. Olympia! Summer 2022!
Dialogic “episodes” dramatise the horror of war, the Exchange of Populations, the collapse of the Great Idea. Monologues narrate little by little, with epic solemnity, the same, almost repetitive history. The performers, all of them anonymous members of a tragic chorus, will unite their voices in the interpolated songs, the festive odes and monodies, and will bring out the theatricality of the “testimonial” narration, arousing emotion in audiences, who will get to look the violence of History straight in the eye.
The refugee narrative is deconstructed and integrated into a historical chamber drama that sometimes seems like an ancient tragedy and sometimes like a musical Requiem.
Creative team
Research, dramaturgy, direction: Roula Pateraki
Musical composition: Niki Karageorgou, Maria Kourmouli
Production director: Alexandros Davris
Actors, performers: Dimitra Hatoupi, Filareti Komninou, Kosmas Fondoukis, Nadia Mourouzi, Irini Karagianni, Evanthia Kourmouli, Roula Pateraki
Singers: Maria Kourmouli, Irini Karagianni