TRUTHS ONLY

“TRUTHS ONLY”

What happens when politics, love, and death go… on air?

In a TV studio preparing for the grand premiere of the new late-night show “TRUTHS ONLY”, two women – the host, Smaragda Lambraki, and the Minister for Citizen Protection, Clytemnestra Patrioti – come face to face just minutes before the “ON AIR” signal.

A staged set.
Pre-recorded applause.
Notes with pre-arranged questions.
Everything predictable. Everything under control.

Until two pieces of news arrive – both from the Minister’s own mouth:
(1) The massive protest is heading straight for the TV station where, very soon, the show will take place. The official reason? The 13th dead protester “from the fire of defending police officers.” The real reason? (and 2) The identity of tonight’s dead protester…

How much propaganda, how many certainties, how many masks and worn-out lies would collapse if a person were to learn that tonight’s dead protester is their very own father – and that the “political” figure responsible for his death is sitting right across from them?

“TRUTHS ONLY”, the new play by Spyros Sourvinos, is a play about love and truth, about faith and betrayal, about utopia and… the non-existent emergency exit toward it.

Two women, trapped on a stage-turned-cage, struggle to manage truth, betrayal, love – and an audience that expects so much from them.

And as the cameras close in,
as their relationship is revealed,
as the protesters reach the building,
the talk show becomes theater,
and the theater turns into a showdown
of life or death.

A play about the people who refuse to remain silent,
about the loves that are born in the mud of (any) power,
and about the truths that cannot bear the light.

Special thanks to Thanasis Dimitropoulos and the restaurant Honolulu Athens for their generous sponsorship.