ABELARD AND HELOISE BY YIANNIS KALAVRIANOS

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.