Event Category: Theater

Based on the novel by Margarita Karapanou “The Sleepwalker” / Kastaniotis Publications.

In a world where every day ends, in a world where every day a new self-fulfilling prophecy is proclaimed, in a world where God seems absent or “tired”, one would say that people would reach their limits, meet the activated themselves. They would rush furiously to any solution that would secure their salvation.

In an informal antechamber of Paradise, in a modern Purgatory, a new Apocalypse takes place starring a group of artists looking for a new Messiah. And they find him. The problem is that the world will once again not end. They too will have to live with the Messiah. With a Messiah in the role of a policeman, who watches, punishes and redeems. “Everyone wished something would happen” say the protagonists. And their wishes are translated by “God” at will.

The show “Triptycho. Study in Inactivity” is a stage experiment. Its materials are Margarita Karapanou’s award-winning novel “The Sleepwalker”, adapted by Dimitra Dermitzaki, the visual work of Francis Bacon and digital media.

This play is performed in Greek.

A Hybrid Performance of Water Deities

A co-production between Greece, Portugal and Italy in the framework of the European project Stronger Peripheries, co-funded by the Creative Europe

Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative (PCAI) presents “ICHTHYOLATRY: A hybrid performance of Water Deities”, a performance conceived and directed by Eva Giannakopoulou at the PLYFA Industrial Park on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 January, in co-production with Artemrede (Portugal – in collaboration with the Municipality of Torres Vedras) and L’Arboreto (Italy).
Inspired by the theorist Astrida Neimanis’ book “Bodies of Water” (2017), which introduces for the first time the concept of Hydrofeminism, according to which water, femininities, embodied practices and ecology are interconnected creating “new” future synergies, ICHTHYOLATRY is a hybrid performance with confessional elements about elderly, floods, fluids and menopause. It is based on research conducted in communities linked to rivers, lakes, torrents and groups of women, during the course of two research and two creative residency programmes carried out in Greece, Portugal and Italy, in the framework of the European project Stronger Peripheries: a Southern Coalition. The visual artist-director and the creative community jointly developed the dramaturgy and texts through personal confessions and interviews with individuals from the local communities of Piraeus, Torres Vedras, Portugal and Mondaino, Italy, in such a way that their content is an intellectual co-creation of all participants.
If water is the element from which all organisms originate, how could we possibly return to this original state of existence, removing the boundaries between evolution, genes, history, culture and nature? The answer to this question is what ICHTHYOLATRY attempts to answer, bridging the “gap” between past, present and future, between human and non-human forms of existence, jellyfishes and dogs.
The eccentric creatures of ICHTHYOLATRY – a warrior, a post-human creature, a female phenomenon and a fish – will inhabit the stage of the Plyfa Industrial Park and the stage of the Teatro Cine in Portugal to take a dive into a dreamy ocean of fluid possibilities. This is a performance that “dives” into an immersive universe of emotional and underwater coalitions.

Are you ready to swim?
* The performance is a new co-production of PCAI (Greece), Artemrede (Portugal – in collaboration with the Municipality of Torres Vedras) and L’Arboreto (Italy) in the framework of the European project Stronger Peripheries: a Southern Coalition, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. In 2023, ICHTHYOLATRY will also be presented in Portugal.

** The material of some costumes was created during a creative workshop with the audience attending the open rehearsal during the artist’s artistic residency at Teatro Dimora L’Arboreto (IT).

*** The performance will be presented in Greek with English surtitles. It contains scenes of nudity and is recommended for those over 16 years old.

BLUE is the first part of a theatrical color pentalogy created by the theater group “Bleu en Haut Bleu en Bas” based in Switzerland and first presented in 2016 in Geneva. Since then, he has been hosted on theater stages in Greece, Cyprus, Switzerland, France, Lebanon, and at major international festivals (Festival La Bâtie, Festival Plein Tube, etc.).

After the success of her last project G.O.L.D. which premiered at the Festival de la Bâtie in August 2022 and which will be staged in 2023 in Paris, Anna comes for once again in Greece with Blue only for a few shows.

In Switzerland, after Blue, Anna uploaded Bloody Fuchsia, White, G.O.L.D. (Glory or Little Dreams) and is now preparing Black – What a Beaty-Full Catastrophe.

At the same time, she is preparing her first choreographic project and film Kiss and Fly.

This performance is in Greek.

After two unique performances, one at the outdoor sculpture gallery of Zongolopoulos in December 2021 and one at the Municipal Slaughterhouses of Tavros in May 2022, the “Witches” meet their audience again reformed and with new content. This time at PLYFA for only 10 performances.

This play is performed in Greek.

The project

“The Witches” is a performance in progress, which acrobats between stage composition and lyrical performance. It is based on the play by Natasa Sideri, which was written on the occasion of the events of violence against women. With material from historical records of gender-based violence in Europe, but also from the Greek oral tradition, as well as the contemporary paradoxical “Greekness”, the work highlights the timelessness of women’s issues, already present in narratives of the past, but still alive as demands to this day.

The performance is under the auspices of the General Secretariat of Family Policy and Gender Equality and is part of UNESCO’s actions to combat gender-based violence, “Orange the World”.

After the enthusiastic reception of the audience and critics in the spring of 2022 on the main stage of BIOS, the show “Pethaino san Chora” comes to ΠΛΥΦΑ for a few performances

This play is perfromed in Greek.

The play Pethaino san Chora”, written in 1978 by Dimitris Dimitriadis, makes us witnesses of a country that is at the end of time, at a critical historical moment when no woman gives birth to a child anymore. After a thousand years of war and while the enemy army is about to cross the border from time to time, we see the exhausted nation welcoming a new historical cycle. At those moments, the multifaceted kingdom of fantasy is enthroned in all heads and world-historical rearrangements take place. The end of an era has come like the premeditated death of an incurable disease.

Double performances on 18/12/22, 08/01/23 and 15/01/23 – at 18:30 and 21:00.

Important Notice:
Cancellation of performances on December 22 and 23, the following has been added:
Thursday 5 and Thursday 12 January at 21:00

This play is performed in Greek.

Almost a year after “Antonio or the message” by Loula Anagnostaki, a performance that was well received, the Little Things Orchestra returns to PLYFA with Edouard Louis’ work “Who Killed my Father”, which is staged for first time in Greece, directed by Christos Theodoridis.

The show has been sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

A musical-theatrical production based on Bost’s play and original music by Henri Kergomard.

Ritsaki, a four-year-old girl, disappears from the face of the earth in the middle of the day while she was fishing with her father. This is where the play begins. Or not. Inside the living room of a 19th century bourgeois family, Bost invites the viewer to see the effects of “civilization” on human life and works.