Event Category: Theater

A… Paper Tiger by Ison Theatrical Projects

With a powerful theatrical play—a punch in the gut—the newly established production company “Ison” introduces itself to the theater scene.

Paper Tiger, written by Paraskevi Anevlavi and based on the true story of Carl Panzram, which shocked America in the 1920s, aims to shed light on the social factors that perpetuate violence, as well as the dark instincts embedded within human nature. The play sketches the psyche of the perpetrator, marked by cruelty and raw violence, shaped by traumatic childhood experiences that transform him into a serial killer in his adult life.

Are you ready to listen?

Two prisoners.

An interrogator.

One big secret.

The serial killer Carl is captured and confesses his horrific acts to the interrogator Alexander with intense passion and no fear. “I only regret two things. I regret hurting some animals during my life, and that I can’t kill the whole damned human race.”

In prison, he befriends his fellow inmate, Peter, sharing personal experiences and stories. However, at the final hour, a revelation emerges that changes everything.

“Unless you turn and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”

Suitable for ages 16 and over.

MATCH
B.p.m. theater group & Danae Liodaki

Following the success of their play “Those You Didn’t Catch in Time,” the B.p.m. theater group presents the new theatrical work by Danae Liodaki, “Match.” This dark comedy about the end of love explores romantic relationships with humor and sensitivity, asking the question: how can love overcome obstacles such as individualism, consumerism, and the uncertainty of endless choices to survive in a society that seems to be against it?

“Match” follows the tragic story of Elle, the last romantic, the last woman who believed in love—and who paid a high price for it. Elle tries to find love through technology, using the dating apps we all know. When this search proves disappointing, she doesn’t give up. Instead, with the help of two close friends, she decides to create her own dating app to fight for the survival of romance in the modern era. But things don’t go as planned.

Danae Liodaki continues to tackle contemporary social issues with a humorous and fresh perspective. This original, modern play, “Match,” soon to be published by Kapa Publishing, invites us to see the political dimension of romantic relationships today. In an era where love becomes increasingly challenging, Elle and her friends call on us to reinvent love in all its forms, insisting: “Resist the disenchantment of life with us! Resist the end of love with us!”

The production is supported financially by the Ministry of Culture.

Performances
Starting November 28 at DIPETHE Kavala
Starting December 19 at PLYFA

Extra date: 2nd of March

PLITS PLATS PLOUTS
A Cocktail on the House from Tourism Workers

For most children, summer is the most carefree time of the year. For adults, however, the summer season is a serious matter that requires planning, organization, and money. For some professionals, summer is synonymous with work. Even in exhausting conditions, workers have to hide their fatigue so as not to affect the mood of vacationers, while travelers spend their money on holidays, hoping they will find compensation for the disappointments and fatigue of an entire year.

On stage, the spotlight shines on what usually remains in the shadows of summer: the thoughts that tour guides don’t share with tourists, the staff conversations in kitchen corners, and the provided 20-square-meter rooms that host not only the four waitstaff but also 23 cockroaches.

Are we all equal under the sun, or do we carry our social inequalities along with our luggage to tourist resorts?

After their debut performance, “Wanna Bet? A Show About Gambling in Greece,” Who Am I To returns with their new production, “PLITS PLATS PLOUTS, A Cocktail on the House from Tourism Workers.” Continuing their exploration of form and content, they now tackle the current and pressing issue of tourism, attempting to connect with the present day through the theatrical style of meta-revue.

Cast Rotation: Featuring Alexandra Rouvela (performing on 25/11, 26/11, 2/12, 3/12) and Katerina Kristo (performing on 9/12, 10/12, 23/12, 24/12, 30/12).

The performance was first presented in the program “All of Greece One Culture” by the Ministry of Culture in the summer of 2024.

Duration: 70 minutes

Roberto Zucco, by Bernard-Marie Koltès

The iconic work of Bernard-Marie Koltès, “Roberto Zucco,” is coming under the direction of Michalis Sionas and produced by MONKS Theater Company.

“It’s not the first time I’ve been inspired by what we call a police report incident, but this is not such an incident.”
(Bernard-Marie Koltès)

Inspired by the true story of the young Roberto Succo, who by the age of 25 had already killed his parents and embarked on a series of hostage-takings and murders, with his true motive remaining unknown—perhaps even mysterious—Bernard-Marie Koltès creates a crime and psychological thriller that often dips its toes into dark comedy.

Zucco escapes from prison and confronts us with the pathologies and contradictions of the modern Western world—the violence that dominates homes, squares, parks, police-monitored gatherings, marginalized ghettos, and stadiums.

Five actors and one musician on stage create a dystopian setting, depicting the vicious cycle of aggression, the lack of prospects for young people, and the questioning of our traditional institutions: family, society, politics, and the police.

Director’s note:
Roberto Zucco. A young man who, to endure society’s indifference, becomes violent towards it. Which means he becomes violent toward that which defines society—the human being.

Duration: 100 minutes

Age Rating: 12+

Σπαραγμός

μια αφήγηση για…

Τον αφανισμό

Τον σπαραγμό

Το πένθος

Την πίστη

Για εσένα

Που έφυγες

Και για σένα

Που ήρθες

Για το χαρτί που σκίζεται

Για όλη την οικογένεια

Για το βραδάκι στις 21.00

Για την αυλή στο ΠΛΥΦΑ

Για το σύγχρονο θέατρο

(Για την σύγχρονη τέχνη)

Και για τον σύγχρονο άνθρωπο

Για το Καλοκαιράκι που πέρασε

Για την Αθήνα μας

Για τον πολιτισμό

Και για την Ελλάδα ολόκληρη

‘’Θάνατος στον χειμώνα

Θάνατος στον θάνατο‘’

Με αφορμή τις Βάκχες του Ευριπίδη και τον Σπαραγμό της Μαργαρίτας Λυμπεράκη, πέντε επι σκηνής πρόσωπα θα επιχειρήσουν να συντηρήσουν έναν κόσμο φτιαγμένο από χαρτί. Η παράσταση θα προσπαθήσει να αφηγηθεί την ιστορία του μυθικού βασιλιά Πενθέα ή αλλιώς εκείνου που εμείς ονομάζουμε – “ο άνθρωπος των θλίψεων’’.

The princess of Troy and widow of the mythical Hector arrives in Greece uprooted, after the end of the Trojan War and the annihilation of her loved ones. She follows Achilles’ son Pyrrhus as his captive and mistress. After the murder of Pyrrhus by Orestes, Andromache surrenders to his brother Hector, to finally take refuge in Epirus, the only “inhabitant” of an artificial Trojan landscape.

A modern female monologue of realization, about the fate of the refugee and the agony of finding a new identity. “How can you forget?” Andromache as a rebel against oblivion, will communicate the heartbreaks from the depths of time through the universal language, art.

Experience the Myth. Through an experience crafted by DarkPlay Theatre.
:|: “Farewell, Cretans, and you, my homeland, sweet land of Zeus, sun-drenched…” Euripides (The Cretans)

An immersive, bilingual journey in Greek, English, and Ancient Greek.
Inspired by the Minotaur and the Labyrinth.
Love, power, and myth collide in this reimagined ancient tale.

The Performance

Brutal conflicts, forbidden love, and the struggle for power play out in a shocking, risk-taking, and sprawling meditation on the classic mythos.
A story drawn from fragments of Euripides, Ovid, Pindar, the true and mythical history of Crete, and the cultural legacy of the maze and the monster.
Every art form and archetype is here: live theatre, dance, and multimedia performed in English, Greek, and Ancient Greek.
Profound and provocative stories you thought you knew, re-imagined and told through ritual, sensation, and transformation.
Enter a sensual, violent, unpredictable world unlike anything you will find on stages or screens.

What You Need to Know:

Age 18+ Only: This show is intense. Darkness, loud music, bright lights, and direct interaction with actors. You’ll be on your feet, moving, and maybe even wearing a mask.
You Are Part of the Performance: From the moment you step into the space, you’re in the story.
No Phones, No Recording: Leave your devices behind. This is a world you can’t capture—only live.

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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.