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IPHIGENIAS

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IPHIGENIAS
Georgia Karlatira

4 Iphigenias stand before the sacrificial altar …
A minimal austere stage, as befits Death.
Their starting point is a fantasy of the future ; one that is denied,collapsing under the weight of maintaining power and prestige.
Lives exiled, trapped beneath their own skin,
an inescapable sacrifice….



A theatrical performance based on excerpts from Euripides, Goethe, Yiannis Ritsos and from the monologue Iphigenia/Prey by Vivian Stergiou.


Directing approach
 An archetype.
The daughter.
Her sacrifice.
 How marriage becomes the sacrifice of the daughter?
How many daughters are sacrificed on this altar, to maintain social balance?
Αnd, how 4 different writers handle this sacrifice?
 I break, I divide Iphigenia into 4  faces and Ι still have 1…

 

 

Duration: 60 minutes

Friends, what are we gonna do‎ | KATSAROS. THE COSMOPOLITAN REBETIS

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Friends, what are we gonna do 
Giorgos Theologitis Katsaros (1888-1997). The Cosmopolitan Rebetis

An artist who became a symbol.
A universally accepted personality.

The century-old singer, guitarist and composer Giorgos Katsaros, by common admission, gave the impression when playing the guitar that two people were playing at the same time. In his simplicity, his self-taught freedom and his Amorgian spirit that he never lost no matter how many years he lived far away, he developed a completely personal style that made him sought after all over the world.

He was one. We are two. Maybe even three.

He performed his own songs, traditional ones as well as those of other well-known composers of the time. Rebetiko and light songs with a sound influenced by Amorgos, Asia Minor, the Athenian Palace, the Piraeus taverns, immigrants and the blues of America.

A century of music with so many changes. What a world!

From Amorgos to Athens and Piraeus, then America and then trips around the world.
2 world wars and the technological explosion.
The rebetiko scholar Panagiotis Kounadis gave us the gift of discovering him, meeting him, interviewing him and revealing his legend to us.

How are this century and the spirit of Katsaros expressed in today’s hyperreality?

A musical performance with natural and electric sound.
A narrative with distortions.
Song, cello, clarinet, guitar, fx and sound design.

From the donkey to steamships, cars and space.
From the oil lamp to electricity and the digital world.
The sea that connects the continents, a connecting link and a constant reminder of his origin.

 

 

We thank the Kounadis Archive for permission to use interview excerpts.

https:// vmrebetiko.gr/item/?id=3854 (to watch all interviews).

A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SOUNDS OF 3 GREAT COMPOSERS, MAHLER BRAMS BARBER

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A Journey Through the Sounds of Three Great Composers
MAHLER · BRAHMS · BARBER
conducted by Maestro Maria Bazou
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An evening dedicated to the human voice, memory, and metaphysical exploration.
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On Friday, January 9th, 2026 at 20:30, at the PLYFA cultural venue in Kerameikos—an authentically industrial space—two emblematic song cycles by Mahler, as well as two choral works by Brahms and Barber, will be presented.
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Soprano Angeliki Vardaka, under the baton of Maestro Maria Bazou, together with the musical ensembles FILII NOTAS, will take us on a journey from the lyricism of the 19th century to the sacred silence of the 20th.
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PROGRAM 

Johannes Brahms – Schicksalslied, Op. 54
Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei

Gustav Mahler – Kindertotenlieder (1901–1904)
Gustav Mahler – Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (1884–1885)
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Duration: 80′ (without a break)

THE LAND OF WANTING MORE

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THE LAND OF WANTING MORE
– the electro version –

 

The performance The Land of Wanting More returns to PLYFA in January 2026 in its new version: with live electronic music, a pulsating body, and an even more liberated approach to female sexuality.

After its sold-out presentation at PLYFA last year, and its subsequent transformation into a short film — screened at international festivals such as the Beijing International Short Film Festival, Filmfest Düsseldorf, Rome Independent Film Festival, Balkans Beyond Borders, among others — the work returns to the stage as an experiential and continuously evolving experience.

The Land of Wanting More is an artistic research project on the decriminalisation of female sexuality, desire, need, and memory. The work draws material from personal narratives, improvisations, films, and theoretical references, while its dramaturgy is composed as a mosaic of speech, movement, sound, and image. The audience is invited into a landscape where narration is fluid and desire is not presented as a stereotype, but as a political and existential act.

In this new version of the performance, theatricality is transformed, taking on more “concert-like” features. The live electronic music composition by Stratos Sterianos, as an active body of the performance, creates a space where intensity, sound, body, and desire merge.

The performance raises questions around exposure, trauma, pleasure, violence, and the power of self-determination. Female sexuality is presented not as a “subject,” but as a field of experience, conflict, and emancipation.

A celebration of desire, but also a deep dive into its dark, contradictory, and fragile zones.

(Warning: the performance contains references to and descriptions of sexual violence.)

Duration: 55 minutes

TECHNO YOGA GATHERING

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Techno Yoga Gathering

Techno Yoga Greece returns with a full-day gathering dedicated to connection, movement, and sound.
On Sunday, 30 November 2025, we meet at PLYFA, a space that naturally blends calm and rhythm.Ιnviting us to move, breathe, and come together once again.

From 12:00 until midnight, the experience flows through guided yoga practices, breathwork, and meditative sessions, creating moments of grounding, release, and inner connection.
Four yoga instructors open the day, each offering their own approach to balancing body and mind.

As day shifts into night, three DJs take over with deep and uplifting techno/house grooves, keeping the atmosphere mindful yet vibrant until the end.

 

Duration: 12:00 – 00:30
Important Note: Participants attending the yoga classes need to arrive at the venue 20 minutes before the start.

SLADEK

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Ars Moriendi Theater Group Presents Ödön von Horváth’s “SLADEK”

Following a successful three-show run last season in Thessaloniki, Ars Moriendi Theater Group presents the political drama “Sladek” by the Austro-Hungarian playwright Ödön von Horváth in Athens. The play depicts the rise of fascism in the Weimar Republic, as engineered by the paramilitary “Black Army.”

Von Horváth’s play is set during the interwar period and the Great Depression, when inflation, unemployment, famine, poverty, and homelessness plagued Germany and drove people to desperation, providing an opportunity for extreme political groups, such as the Nazi Party, to win the hearts of the defeated and the poor. In Sladek, we see how social conditions lead “small” people to desperate acts and heinous violence, paving the way for dictators and fascists who exterminate anyone who stands in their way: women, homosexuals, Jews, communists, democrats.

The work predicts with terrifying accuracy the cycle of violence that was about to spread across Europe. The fascism of 1920s and 1930s Germany is no more, but History today creates similarities that urge us not to be complacent. Online hate speech, the impoverishment of language, femicides, xenophobia, homophobia, and television and internet populism compose the Eternal Fascism, as Umberto Eco calls it, which feeds on the natural fear of the different, on the feelings of humiliation of vulnerable social groups, and on our primal need to be heroes in our mundane lives.

“The hero,” however, “of Eternal Fascism is impatient to die,” and “in his impatience he usually sends other people to their death” (Umberto Eco). This is the story of Sladek and his comrades.

 

The production Sladek is presented under the auspices and with the financial support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki.

 

 

Duration: 80 minutes
Suitable age: 14+

MINAS PASPALAS LIVE | GUEST: MARIANNA KATSIMICHA

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Minas Paspalas Live
Guest: Marianna Katsimicha

Minas is a young singer and songwriter—you’ve probably come across him in the backstreets of Athens, playing and singing with his guitar. His first full-length work is being released soon, and he’s coming to PLYFA for a live show where he’ll present songs from the upcoming album, along with other favorites. Joining him for the evening is Marianna Katsimicha, the girl whose melodic voice heals every memory. We’ll be waiting for you there!

Duration: 2 hours

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR STRAY.GR

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Christmas Bazaar Stray.Gr
Organization for the Protection and Welfare of Stray Animals “Stray.Gr”

With great joy (and even more wagging tails), we invite you to the Christmas Bazaar of Stray.Gr!

Come shop for unique, handmade, and special gifts, meet our team, laugh, help out, and of course, immerse yourself in the cutest Christmas spirit!

At this year’s Bazaar, you will find:

Come with your friends (and your dogs, of course!) for a wonderful stroll in the city center, do your shopping, and help stray animals!

Our Bazaars are the main source of funding for our work, as we receive no government support.

Duration: from 10:00 to 22:00

8

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8
Anema Dance Company

The dance performance “8” draws inspiration from Kandinsky’s compass — a symbol of inner orientation within a world that shifts, chatters, and is reborn again and again through its own forms.

Through rhythm and transformation, the body becomes the painting itself: it carries the colors, generates the shapes, inhabits them. Information overflows, deconstructs, rebuilds. And there, at the threshold between order and chaos, the joy of the moment is born — the simple, almost childlike delight of being part of the space, the canvas, the movement itself.


“8” cannot be explained; it simply breathes.
Like a color that changes with the light.
Like a shape that is born anew each time.

 

Duration: 40 minutes

CHRISTOS TZITZIMIKAS & BANDA CALDA

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Christos Tzitzimikas & Banda Calda

On Friday, November 14th at PLYFA, starting at 20:30, the seven-member Banda Calda and Christos Tzitzimikas join forces, measuring time through their music and taking us on a journey from the Mastorochoria of Epirus to the plains of Imathia.
We’ll hear all the voices and musical dialects that once nestled—and still do—at the foothills of Smolikas and Tymfi, Grammos and Verno, Kaimaktsalan, Paiko, and Vermio, and we’ll dance to the steps of their people.

Duration: 300 minutes
Intermission: 30 minutes

Doors open at 20:00.