Event Category: Theater

ETÚTI Theater Group
Genesis No. 2
by Ivan Viripaev
Directed by: Kali Voikli
2nd YEAR OF PERFORMANCES

After the first cycle of sold out shows, Genesis No. 2 by Ivan Viripaev from
ETÚTI Theater Group directed by Kalis Voiklis returns to PLYFA for
limited number of performances.
Genesis No. 2 by Ivan Viripaev is a “tragedy of meaning” that manages to
combines humor and realism, with deep questions about meaning and existence.
It talks about freedom and imposition, loneliness and connection between people.
He talks about God and with God, who is one of the characters of the work.
“If you believe in God, this does not mean that God also believes in you”

However, it is about a humanized, revolutionary God, who declares defiantly
that it does not exist, forcing man to look for what might exist beyond him.
Is there anything else?
“In everything that exists around us, there is something else, something other than what we see”

Through the text, worlds and characters, current and eternal, are born that have the
flexibility to transform through the eyes of the viewers. This is how they surface
thoughts and feelings that we all have, but perhaps don’t know how to transform
in words.

The polyphony of the text is also reflected in the direction that tries a
innovative approach to the project. Five actors alternate in his roles
play, changing characters in each performance, spontaneously, without existing
pre-agreement on what role each person will take in each scene. So, through
this game of self-determination, each performance will be different, unpredictable and
truly “alive”.
The ETÚTI Theater Group, directed by Kali Voikli and with original music
composed by Viki Kapetanopoulou, they create an alternative performance, where the
Viripaev’s text emerges as the “main person of the work”.

*The show is suitable for people over 16 years old
**Strobe light is used in the performance

Giota Festa meets Giorgos Karamichos at Konstantinou’s “OUTRO”.
Vasilakopoulou | From 5/10 at PLYFA

Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos returns to Greece with the first complete
his work, “OUTRO”. Graduate of the pioneering Academy of Theater and Dance
of Amsterdam, with an apprenticeship with Ivo van Hove and great collaborations in
his asset creates a project about family relationships, diversity, the
hard and intimate truths that kneel under the weight of social “acceptance”
and homogeneity.
“OUTRO” is based on Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play, “Juste la fin du
Monde”, which was later made into a movie (in Greek: “Just the End of the World”)
by Xavier Dolan and won several awards.

OUTRO

Directed by: Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos
In the role of the mother, Iota Festa
Loukas, George Karamichos
Premiere: October 5
In PLYFA

PLOT

I risk without hope.
Nevertheless I decided to go back to see them, to go back to the old days, to march
in my footsteps and make my journey.

Lukas, a writer, returns after many years to his hometown, in one
village in the Greek countryside. He wants to make up for lost time, lost opportunities,
to find the courage to face himself against his family. To
defend his choices, his wants, his identity.
Will fertile ground be created for him to find the redemption he seeks?
“OUTRO” by Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos takes a brave plunge into
dysfunctional family environment. Where the traditional are demystified
gatherings around the same table and the truths with which are revealed
all members fight.

It invites us to reflect: How cruel can we be to others, when
haven’t we done any work on ourselves? And, after all, what is worth in this life? Which ones
priorities? What should we sacrifice and on which altar? They could all were they becoming “otherwise”? And how far we are – individually, but also as a society – from this
“otherwise”?

Director’s note
What role does the artist’s return to the environment that expelled him play? He turns with her
hope that things have changed? He has missed the warmth of his family or
is he just confirming that he is well gone?
Those who have grown up in a closed Greek provincial town, know well what it means to
you dream of escaping from the environment in which you live. An environment like no other
limit of tolerance to diversity, which tries to suppress any natural you
tendency and to put on your ancestral seals and the barriers that dominate
from the guilt of pleasure and set the bar high for social acceptance and
homogeneity.

In “OUTRO” I wanted to create an environment in which the audience could feel
participant. The viewer should reflect on how we have structured our society
reality, not necessarily to embrace the views expressed.

Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos

Basted on “Juste la fin du monde”
του Jean – Luc Lagarce

Alchemy of the Extraordinary is a four-week intensive training course on Creativity and Devised Theater through the creative practice of David Glass.

The seminar was designed by David Glass and is taught by him together with Korina Kokkalis and Simon Gleave, where they continue to develop and transmit his method.

This workshop series includes five-stage Creative Practice alongside experiential inquiry for Child, Adolescent, Adult, as well as exploring storytelling and expression through the body.

David Glass’s work has influenced many theater groups and educators, but also social development and corporate organizations around the world (UN, Save the Children, Gecko, 111 Program, etc.).

Alchemy of the Extraordinary is an international workshop running for the 4th consecutive year with over 30 participants from over 12 countries including Europe, USA, Canada and Australia. Our goal is to create a maker network and community that continues to grow and evolve beyond the 4 weeks of the workshop.

On Thursday July 25 at 18:00 the participants will present a sample of their work. The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the participants and presenters of the seminar.

a man can break

an original dramaturgy inspired by peter handke’s “kaspar” and heiner müller’s “horatio”

a performance of self-effacement

a coup breaks out in a peaceful city. in one night, three sisters are forced to change their way of thinking and speaking in order to survive in the new regime. in order to be liked they stop judging, they forget how to think, they give up their ideology. they become the same, clumsy and violent.

director’s note
can i maintain my ideology against survival instinct? do i have an ideology we tell a story of linguistic torture, in which three people are transformed to be useful, smoothed and blunted so as not to annoy. they undergo the invention of typography: their uniqueness is eliminated, they become interchangeable and replaceable. But were they ever truly unique? there is a mechanism that grinds and transmutes, a mechanism that I have unwittingly admired and served. and now i need to exorcise him

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director bio:
Konstantinos Avramis was born in 1998 and grew up in Athens. studied philosophy (Ekpa) and is a final student of the postgraduate program comparative dramaturgy and performance research (Frankfurt/Helsinki). has been involved in playwriting (Kakogiannis Foundation, Marori Theater), acting (Attis Theater), and directing (Mikri Academy). as a dramatist he has worked in theaters in Greece and Finland and in short films, he is a founding member of the Protosi Theater Company. the text of his first complete work “holy agony. on the loom of Eva Palmer Sikelianou” is published by kappa publishing house

April 24-25, 2024
1, 8, 13-14, 20-21, 27-28 May 2024
3-4 June 2024

Extra performances from the 17th to the 19th of June at 21:00

This play is performed in Greek.

We wanted to talk
to create order.
I wish there was some beauty
in a world full of chaos, darkness and noise,
like the one who surrounds us.
Because there are things that happen
and things that happen.
And great loves always happen
and they never happen.

Abelard and Heloise is a play based on a medieval story that
it has taken on the characteristics of mythology. One of the most touching love stories took
flesh and bones in modern Greek drama by Yiannis Kalabrianos. A hymn
to eternal love, to elusive happiness, to the chaos of despair. Two lovers
they are sanctified, exalted in their effort to remain faithful to each other against each other
in the world, in the distance and in themselves. Two heavenly bodies, heading towards
their inevitable meeting and at the same time fatal collision, to seduce us as well
us in their unstoppable orbit. A deeply poetic work, written so unconventionally
as well as this love. A group of young actors come on stage as a dance, for
to tell this first love story as if it were the last. To continue
great loves to be sung till the world fades away.

Special thanks to Aggelos Triantafyllou for providing some of his music from the 2014 performance of the same name.

The performance was presented as part of the Graduate Examinations of the Directing Department of the Drama School of the National Theatre. Since then we have created a stable team and the show is developed and modified (dramatically, musically, scenographically and acting) through rehearsals as well as personal work of the actors.

Information about the project

Leonidas Oikonomidis was born in the early 1990s in a seaside town in the Peloponnese. Leonidas is born on stage by the actors. He loves pop music, the sea and wants to be a swimmer. At some point he needs money. He will look for them in various types of credit institutions. For security if he cannot pay his debt, he will be asked for something valuable. The blue notebook. The blue notebook is his main object of memory, as he writes there from a young age about everything that moves him and does not want to be lost in oblivion.

The project mainly draws its references from the Millennials generation. They are the generation that studied and started looking for work during the crisis years. The anxiety of running away from the parental home, economic dependence and parental/societal projections regarding the profession and personal life determine her today significantly. Between absolute reaction or absolute submission, she is called upon to find her own voice and become visible in today’s Greek reality. What is the collective memory of this generation? How does financial insecurity refine the romance of youth and how do we react to it?

We are pleased to inform you that the multimedia site-specific performance WALKING IN LIGHT, conceived and directed by Elena Zervopoulou and produced by Diversity United, under the auspices and with the support of the Ministry of Culture, will appear for the first time to the public on March 17 at 19.00 – 20.00 at the Plyfa theater.

WALKING IN LIGHT

It is an interactive performance with the audience, a site specific performance inspired by the testimonies of young refugees that is combined with video projection and live music and reveals their inner journey highlighting their resilience.

Starting from their arrival from the sea at the first door of Europe, Greece, it traces their emotional path as it emerged from experiential workshops of video, physical theater, dance and music.

Guided by Mustafa’s poetic narrative in the video-dance (filmed in Southern Italy in the first part of the triptych), the performers embody their experiences and allow us to penetrate their inner journey, where with a beacon their resilience, the human connection and solidarity, they discover the path that will lead them to the light. Will the local community become a fellow traveler? By placing the audience at the center of an experience of welcome and acceptance, we challenge them to take a stand, raise awareness and find different solutions.

“Walking in Light” trusts human potential by shedding light on the values of tolerance, respect and social justice. Overcoming their difficulties symbolically through the “Mysteries of Passage”, the refugees share with the public extroversion and optimism. Highlighting and recognizing the resilience of those who have suffered is cathartic for the wider society as well.

Free contribution on the ground to support the project will be greatly appreciated!

Diversity United
Through art and social innovation we promote equal opportunities inclusively and march together.

Our goal, the empowerment and social integration of mainly women and young refugees, through experiential art therapy workshops with an ethno-psychological approach, for a better, more inclusive world.

With the resulting participatory cultural projects (interdisciplinary performances, video-dance, VR films, documentaries, cross-media platforms) we raise awareness and mobilize the rest of society around social and climate justice, focusing on human rights, intercultural dialogue and solidarity. We create digital platforms and applications promoting inclusive social and environmental solutions.

www.diversityunited.net
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Founder: Elena Zervopoulou (ethno-psychologist, director of the show)

Greek-French with studies in Paris in ethno-psychology and directing (postgraduate degrees in Clinical Intercultural Psychology and visual anthropology), she provided systemic psychological support to immigrant families in Paris and to unaccompanied refugee minors in Southern Italy. He was a UNESCO consultant in Paris for the socio-economic integration of “street children” in Madagascar. He founded the production company One Vibe Films based in Italy, with which he wrote, directed and produced social documentaries for international television stations (BBC, ORF 3, RTE, NRK, SKAI, Catalan TV) and NGOs. Stand out are “Sea Gypsies” (part of the BBC’s “Why Poverty?” TV campaign that was shown in 200 countries), “Greece: Days of Change” (nominated for two awards at international festivals, distribution on European channels and in 60 cinemas of Spain), “BeLeaf” (virtual reality film for the European Capital of Culture Matera 2019), “VoiceUP”, “SolidViews” (cross-media platform), “Walking in Light” (site-specific performance). Mostly shot by herself in marginalized indigenous communities in Southeast Asia, Africa or Europe, she captures stories that restore the dignity of “forgotten” people, seeking to break down any stereotypes and bridge worlds through cross-cultural empathy and the promotion of human rights. Founded Diversity United in Athens in 2021 to empower vulnerable groups through art and co

A performance of physical theater in the concept & conception of the JEUDi team
Directed by: Korina Kokkali – Simon Gleave

The performance ROBA is about two human figures traveling through time. A strange game of hide and seek, through the multiplicity of different faces and forms, they move back and forth in time, on and off, in a space that is composed and decomposed with the help of a third mysterious creator.

A leak. A song. A disease.

ROBA is a Physical Theater performance that plays with image, sound, light and darkness, exploring the world of “care” and the possibility of finding redemption through illness. If we lose everything when we get sick, then can illness itself become an example of freedom?

The show is based on a record of gestures, sounds, images and experiences of caring for someone very close to us. ROBA “translates” these fragments into a ceremony of play and freedom.

The project is the result of four years of research and the collaboration of a wonderful group of artists, friends, care experts and “hidden” forces. The wider research, entitled ‘Parea’, around Parkinson’s and Dementia, includes a series of workshops for patient carers, professional and non-professional, and their family members. The research involves artists, therapists and neuroscientists. Collaborators: Clod Ensemble-Suzy Wilson, David Glass Ensemble-David Glass, Stephen Lenzi, Louisa White, Chrysoula Tsipa.

We are grateful for the support of Arts Council England, the Elizabeth Georgoudis Ballet School, the Clod Ensemble and all the donors who helped us make this project happen.