MR OIKONOMIDIS

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?