The Nightmare of Persephone #Chernobyl – Archaeological Museum of Arta

30 & 31 August, Archaeological Museum of Arta

Production: MI ANASTREPSIMI

Genre: Performance for young audiences

Time: 20:00

Duration: 70′

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Archaeological Museum of Arta

Onirodrama theatre company created an intertextual original performance for the whole family titled The Nightmare of Persephone#Chernobyl. In a utopian atemporal setting where everything is possible, where reality merges with fantasy and where the problem becomes so crucial and unmanageable, a different mechanism of self-preservation is set in motion.

The myth of Persephone according to Homer’s hymn to Demetra, Nikos Gatsos’ poetry, true accounts of the Chernobyl tragedy by writer and Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich, Andri Snær Magnason’s The Story of the Blue Planet, and Apostle Paul’s Hymn of Love from his epistle to the Corinthians inspire and help compose the canvas that will depict the problems of energy crisis, climate change and ecological destruction. The participation of children in the show is its most important part. The performance is a protest, a pleading and at the same time an answer to the “powerful ones” who destroy “our home”, the planet Earth.

Creative team

Direction, text editing: Vasilis Papalazarou

Dramaturgy: Naya Papapanou

Music: Stelios Michelakis (Stel)

Sets, costumes: Konstantinos Gougounis

Child psychologist: Stella Moudatsou

Cast: Christina Moudatsou, Stavroula-Melissanthi Makra, Giorgos Menediatis, Vassilis Papalazarou

With the participation of children from the Municipal Conservatory of Arta